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In multi-task learning (MTL), we improve the performance of key machine learning algorithms by training various tasks jointly. When the number of tasks is large, modeling task structure can further refine the task relationship model. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Xiangyu Niu , Yifan Sun , Jinyuan Sun

We propose an approach to Multitask Learning (MTL) to make deep learning models faster and lighter for applications in which multiple tasks need to be solved simultaneously, which is particularly useful in embedded, real-time systems. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Miquel Martí , Atsuto Maki

Over the past decades, researchers have primarily focused on improving the generalization abilities of models, with limited attention given to regulating such generalization. However, the ability of models to generalize to unintended data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Ziming Hong , Yongli Xiang , Tongliang Liu

Recently, the database management system (DBMS) community has witnessed the power of machine learning (ML) solutions for DBMS tasks. Despite their promising performance, these existing solutions can hardly be considered satisfactory. First,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ziniu Wu , Pei Yu , Peilun Yang , Rong Zhu , Yuxing Han , Yaliang Li , Defu Lian , Kai Zeng , Jingren Zhou

With the advent of deep learning, many dense prediction tasks, i.e. tasks that produce pixel-level predictions, have seen significant performance improvements. The typical approach is to learn these tasks in isolation, that is, a separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Simon Vandenhende , Stamatios Georgoulis , Wouter Van Gansbeke , Marc Proesmans , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a subfield of machine learning in which multiple tasks are simultaneously learned by a shared model. Such approaches offer advantages like improved data efficiency, reduced overfitting through shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Michael Crawshaw

Many real-world machine learning applications involve several learning tasks which are inter-related. For example, in healthcare domain, we need to learn a predictive model of a certain disease for many hospitals. The models for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Inci M. Baytas , Ming Yan , Anil K. Jain , Jiayu Zhou

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm designed to leverage shared knowledge across tasks to improve generalization and performance. Previous works have proposed approaches to MTL that can be divided into feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Paolo Bonetti , Alberto Maria Metelli , Marcello Restelli

The multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm can be traced back to an early paper of Caruana (1997) in which it was argued that data from multiple tasks can be used with the aim to obtain a better performance over learning each task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Andrea Ponti

We tackle the Multi-task Batch Reinforcement Learning problem. Given multiple datasets collected from different tasks, we train a multi-task policy to perform well in unseen tasks sampled from the same distribution. The task identities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jiachen Li , Quan Vuong , Shuang Liu , Minghua Liu , Kamil Ciosek , Keith Ross , Henrik Iskov Christensen , Hao Su

Multi-task learning (MTL) is to learn one single model that performs multiple tasks for achieving good performance on all tasks and lower cost on computation. Learning such a model requires to jointly optimize losses of a set of tasks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Wei-Hong Li , Hakan Bilen

Large-scale pre-training frameworks like CLIP have revolutionized multimodal learning, but their reliance on web-scraped datasets, frequently containing private user data, raises serious concerns about misuse. Unlearnable Examples (UEs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Tianwei Song , Ye Sun , Yifeng Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang

When a number of similar tasks have to be learned simultaneously, multi-task learning (MTL) models can attain significantly higher accuracy than single-task learning (STL) models. However, the advantage of MTL depends on various factors,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Afiya Ayman , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Aron Laszka

Unlearnable examples (UEs) aim to compromise model training by injecting imperceptible perturbations to clean samples. However, existing UE schemes exhibit limited robustness against advanced defenses due to their heuristic design or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xianlong Wang , Hangtao Zhang , Wenbo Pan , Ziqi Zhou , Changsong Jiang , Li Zeng , Xiaohua Jia

Multitask learning (MTL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm that leverages similarities among multiple learning tasks, each with insufficient samples to train a standalone model, to solve them simultaneously while minimizing data sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 John Abascal , Nicolás Berrios , Alina Oprea , Jonathan Ullman , Adam Smith , Matthew Jagielski

Task embedding, a meta-learning technique that captures task-specific information, has gained popularity, especially in areas such as multi-task learning, model editing, and interpretability. However, it faces challenges with the emergence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Xinyu Wang , Hainiu Xu , Lin Gui , Yulan He

Meta-learning has become a practical approach towards few-shot image classification, where "a strategy to learn a classifier" is meta-learned on labeled base classes and can be applied to tasks with novel classes. We remove the requirement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Han-Jia Ye , Lu Han , De-Chuan Zhan

In recent years, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has attracted much attention due to its good performance in many applications. However, many existing MTL models cannot guarantee that their performance is no worse than their single-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhixiong Yue , Feiyang Ye , Yu Zhang , Christy Liang , Ivor W. Tsang

Multi-task learning (MTL) has emerged as an imperative machine learning tool to solve multiple learning tasks simultaneously and has been successfully applied to healthcare, marketing, and biomedical fields. However, in order to borrow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Yang Sui , Qi Xu , Yang Bai , Annie Qu

When faced with learning a set of inter-related tasks from a limited amount of usable data, learning each task independently may lead to poor generalization performance. Multi-Task Learning (MTL) exploits the latent relations between tasks…

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