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We propose a novel method to merge convolutional neural-nets for the inference stage. Given two well-trained networks that may have different architectures that handle different tasks, our method aligns the layers of the original networks…

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Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the performance of multiple related prediction tasks by leveraging useful information from them. Due to their flexibility and ability to reduce unknown coefficients substantially, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yuzhao Zhang , Yifan Sun

Given the ubiquity of multi-task in practical systems, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) has found widespread application across diverse domains. In real-world scenarios, these tasks often have different priorities. For instance, In web search,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhengxing Cheng , Yuheng Huang , Zhixuan Zhang , Dan Ou , Qingwen Liu

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an active field in deep learning in which we train a model to jointly learn multiple tasks by exploiting relationships between the tasks. It has been shown that MTL helps the model share the learned features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Akihiro Nakano , Shi Chen , Kazuyuki Demachi

In multi-task learning (MTL), related tasks learn jointly to improve generalization performance. To exploit the high learning speed of extreme learning machines (ELMs), we apply the ELM framework to the MTL problem, where the output weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Multi-task learning (MTL) has been widely adopted for its ability to simultaneously learn multiple tasks. While existing gradient manipulation methods often yield more balanced solutions than simple scalarization-based approaches, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Peiyao Xiao , Chaosheng Dong , Shaofeng Zou , Kaiyi Ji

Multi-task learning has become increasingly popular in the machine learning field, but its practicality is hindered by the need for large, labeled datasets. Most multi-task learning methods depend on fully labeled datasets wherein each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Kento Nishi , Junsik Kim , Wanhua Li , Hanspeter Pfister

Model merging-based multitask learning (MTL) offers a promising approach for performing MTL by merging multiple expert models without requiring access to raw training data. However, in this paper, we examine the merged model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Enneng Yang , Li Shen , Zhenyi Wang , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Xiaocun Cao , Jie Zhang , Dacheng Tao

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

Multi-task learning (MTL) has led to successes in many applications of machine learning, from natural language processing and speech recognition to computer vision and drug discovery. This article aims to give a general overview of MTL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Sebastian Ruder

Model merging aims to efficiently combine the weights of multiple expert models, each trained on a specific task, into a single multi-task model, with strong performance across all tasks. When applied to all but the last layer of weights,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ekansh Sharma , Daniel M. Roy , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Large Language Models (LLMs) require instruction fine-tuning to perform different downstream tasks. However, the instruction fine-tuning phase still demands significant computational resources and labeled data, lacking a paradigm that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yiguan Lin , Bin Xu , Yinghao Li , Yang Gao

Model merging has emerged as an efficient and flexible paradigm for multi-task learning, with numerous methods being proposed in recent years. However, these state-of-the-art techniques are typically evaluated on benchmark suites that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kotaro Yoshida , Yuji Naraki , Takafumi Horie , Ryotaro Shimizu , Hiroki Naganuma

Model merging aims to integrate multiple task-specific fine-tuned models derived from a shared pre-trained checkpoint into a single multi-task model without additional training. Despite extensive research, task interference remains a major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Longhua Li , Lei Qi , Qi Tian , Xin Geng

Model merging enables powerful capabilities in neural networks without requiring additional training. In this paper, we introduce a novel perspective on model merging by leveraging the fundamental mechanisms of neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Haiquan Qiu , You Wu , Dong Li , Jianmin Guo , Quanming Yao

Model merging aims to build a multi-task learner by combining the parameters of individually fine-tuned models without additional training. While a straightforward approach is to average model parameters across tasks, this often results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiho Choi , Donggyun Kim , Chanhyuk Lee , Seunghoon Hong

Multi-task learning (MTL) allows deep neural networks to learn from related tasks by sharing parameters with other networks. In practice, however, MTL involves searching an enormous space of possible parameter sharing architectures to find…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-20 Sebastian Ruder , Joachim Bingel , Isabelle Augenstein , Anders Søgaard

Multi-task learning (MTL) algorithms typically rely on schemes that combine different task losses or their gradients through weighted averaging. These methods aim to find Pareto stationary points by using heuristics that require access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Surya Murthy , Kushagra Gupta , Mustafa O. Karabag , David Fridovich-Keil , Ufuk Topcu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to learn multiple tasks simultaneously while exploiting their mutual relationships. By using shared resources to simultaneously calculate multiple outputs, this learning paradigm has the potential to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi

Software reuse has long been recognized as a critical and widely studied topic in software engineering, offering substantial benefits in reducing development costs, improving software quality, and enhancing operational efficiency. This…

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