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Multi-tasking optimization can usually achieve better performance than traditional single-tasking optimization through knowledge transfer between tasks. However, current multi-tasking optimization algorithms have some deficiencies. For high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Zhengping Liang , Weiqi Liang , Xiuju Xu , Ling Liu , Zexuan Zhu

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims at finding a set of optimal configurations for a given set of objectives. A recent line of work applies MOO methods to the typical Machine Learning (ML) setting, which becomes multi-objective if a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Michael Ruchte , Josif Grabocka

This paper explores learned-context neural networks. It is a multi-task learning architecture based on a fully shared neural network and an augmented input vector containing trainable task parameters. The architecture is interesting due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Anders T. Sandnes , Bjarne Grimstad , Odd Kolbjørnsen

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to leverage shared information among tasks to improve learning efficiency and accuracy. However, MTL often struggles to effectively manage positive and negative transfer between tasks, which can hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Chenguang Wang , Xuanhao Pan , Tianshu Yu

The increasing demand for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) calls for decentralized mechanisms that can allocate transmit power across nodes and channels under stringent resource constraints. Existing optimization-based approaches, however,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tomer Alter , Nir Shlezinger , Michael Segal

To mitigate computational power gap between the network core and edges, mobile edge computing (MEC) is poised to play a fundamental role in future generations of wireless networks. In this letter, we consider a non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Vaibhav Kumar , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

Optimizing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in multi-cell scenarios is much more challenging than the single-cell case because inter-cell interference must be considered. Most papers addressing NOMA consider a single cell. We take a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Lei You , Di Yuan , Lei Lei , Sumei Sun , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Neural architecture search (NAS) has emerged as a promising avenue for automatically designing task-specific neural networks. Existing NAS approaches require one complete search for each deployment specification of hardware or objective.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhichao Lu , Gautam Sreekumar , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Kalyanmoy Deb , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

The goal of multi-task learning is to learn diverse tasks within a single unified network. As each task has its own unique objective function, conflicts emerge during training, resulting in negative transfer among them. Earlier research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wooseong Jeong , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Multi-task learning has recently emerged as a promising solution for a comprehensive understanding of complex scenes. In addition to being memory-efficient, multi-task models, when appropriately designed, can facilitate the exchange of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ivan Lopes , Tuan-Hung Vu , Raoul de Charette

Object detection, segmentation and classification are three common tasks in medical image analysis. Multi-task deep learning (MTL) tackles these three tasks jointly, which provides several advantages saving computing time and resources and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Fei Gao , Hyunsoo Yoon , Teresa Wu , Xianghua Chu

Multi-task learning, as it is understood nowadays, consists of using one single model to carry out several similar tasks. From classifying hand-written characters of different alphabets to figuring out how to play several Atari games using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Unai Garciarena , Alexander Mendiburu , Roberto Santana

Network topology has significant impacts on operational performance of power systems. While extensive research efforts have been devoted to optimization of network topology for improving various system performances, the problem of how to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Tong Han , David J. Hill , Yue Song

Most of the prior work in massively parallel data processing assumes homogeneity, i.e., every computing unit has the same computational capability, and can communicate with every other unit with the same latency and bandwidth. However, this…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Xiao Hu , Paraschos Koutris , Spyros Blanas

Until recently, the potential to transfer evolved skills across distinct optimization problem instances (or tasks) was seldom explored in evolutionary computation. The concept of evolutionary multitasking (EMT) fills this gap. It unlocks a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Abhishek Gupta , Lei Zhou , Yew-Soon Ong , Zefeng Chen , Yaqing Hou

Multi-task learning is a very challenging problem in reinforcement learning. While training multiple tasks jointly allow the policies to share parameters across different tasks, the optimization problem becomes non-trivial: It remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ruihan Yang , Huazhe Xu , Yi Wu , Xiaolong Wang

To efficiently select optimal dataset combinations for enhancing multi-task learning (MTL) performance in large language models, we proposed a novel framework that leverages a neural network to predict the best dataset combinations. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zaifu Zhan , Rui Zhang

The trade-off between computation time and path optimality is a key consideration in motion planning algorithms. While classical sampling based algorithms fall short of computational efficiency in high dimensional planning, learning based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yinghan Wang , Xiaoming Duan , Jianping He

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 framework, where multiple related tasks are learned jointly and benefit from a shared representation space, or parameter transfer. To provide sufficient learning support, modern MTL uses annotated data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou