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In meta-learning and its downstream tasks, many methods rely on implicit adaptation to task variations, where multiple factors are mixed together in a single entangled representation. This makes it difficult to interpret which factors drive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Seonsoo Kim , Jun-Gill Kang , Taehong Kim , Seongil Hong

Offline meta-reinforcement learning (OMRL) proficiently allows an agent to tackle novel tasks while solely relying on a static dataset. For precise and efficient task identification, existing OMRL research suggests learning separate task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Chengxing Jia , Fuxiang Zhang , Yi-Chen Li , Chen-Xiao Gao , Xu-Hui Liu , Lei Yuan , Zongzhang Zhang , Yang Yu

Effective modeling of heterogeneous subpopulations presents a significant challenge due to variations in individual characteristics and behaviors. This paper proposes a novel approach to address this issue through multi-task learning (MTL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Elif Konyar , Mostafa Reisi Gahrooei , Kamran Paynabar

The emergence of multi-modal deep learning models has made significant impacts on clinical applications in the last decade. However, the majority of models are limited to single-tasking, without considering disease diagnosis is indeed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Lijian Xu , Ziyu Ni , Xinglong Liu , Xiaosong Wang , Hongsheng Li , Shaoting Zhang

During the diagnostic process, clinicians leverage multimodal information, such as chief complaints, medical images, and laboratory-test results. Deep-learning models for aiding diagnosis have yet to meet this requirement. Here we report a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hong-Yu Zhou , Yizhou Yu , Chengdi Wang , Shu Zhang , Yuanxu Gao , Jia Pan , Jun Shao , Guangming Lu , Kang Zhang , Weimin Li

Existing methods for multi-modal time series representation learning aim to disentangle the modality-shared and modality-specific latent variables. Although achieving notable performances on downstream tasks, they usually assume an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ruichu Cai , Zhifang Jiang , Zijian Li , Weilin Chen , Xuexin Chen , Zhifeng Hao , Yifan Shen , Guangyi Chen , Kun Zhang

Multi-disease diagnosis using multi-modal data like electronic health records and medical imaging is a critical clinical task. Although existing deep learning methods have achieved initial success in this area, a significant gap persists…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yueheng Jiang , Peng Zhang

In this work, we learn a shared encoding representation for a multi-task neural network model optimized with connectionist temporal classification (CTC) and conventional framewise cross-entropy training criteria. Our experiments show that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-04 Thai-Son Nguyen , Sebastian Stueker , Alex Waibel

In Multi-Task Learning (MTL), it is a common practice to train multi-task networks by optimizing an objective function, which is a weighted average of the task-specific objective functions. Although the computational advantages of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Lucas Pascal , Pietro Michiardi , Xavier Bost , Benoit Huet , Maria A. Zuluaga

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to enhance the performance and efficiency of machine learning models by simultaneously training them on multiple tasks. However, MTL research faces two challenges: 1) effectively modeling the relationships…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Danwei Li , Zhengyu Zhang , Siyang Yuan , Mingze Gao , Weilin Zhang , Chaofei Yang , Xi Liu , Jiyan Yang

Face images contain a wide variety of attribute information. In this paper, we propose a generalized framework for joint estimation of ordinal and nominal attributes based on information sharing. We tackle the correlation problem between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Huaqing Yuan , Yi He , Peng Du , Lu Song

This study addresses the challenge of accurately identifying multi-task contention types in high-dimensional system environments and proposes a unified contention classification framework that integrates representation transformation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xiao Yang , Yinan Ni , Yuqi Tang , Zhimin Qiu , Chen Wang , Tingzhou Yuan

Despite their success, Machine Learning (ML) models do not generalize effectively to data not originating from the training distribution. To reliably employ ML models in real-world healthcare systems and avoid inaccurate predictions on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Ameen Abu-Hanna , Giovanni Ciná

Multi-modal medical imaging enables comprehensive diagnostics, yet current foundation models process 2D (e.g. X-ray) and 3D (e.g. CT) data with separate, dimensionality-specific architectures. We present MultiMedVision, a unified framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Frank Li , Bardia Khosravi , Mohammadreza Chavoshi , Young Seok Jeon , Theo Dapamede , Hari Trivedi , Janice Newsome , Judy Gichoya

We present our novel deep multi-task learning method for medical image segmentation. Existing multi-task methods demand ground truth annotations for both the primary and auxiliary tasks. Contrary to it, we propose to generate the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Binod Bhattarai , Ronast Subedi , Rebati Raman Gaire , Eduard Vazquez , Danail Stoyanov

Multimodal Information Extraction (MIE) requires fusing text and visual cues from visually rich documents. While recent methods have advanced multimodal representation learning, most implicitly assume modality equivalence or treat…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yang Li , Yajiao Wang , Wenhao Hu , Zhixiong Zhang , Mengting Zhang

CDR (Cross-Domain Recommendation), i.e., leveraging information from multiple domains, is a critical solution to data sparsity problem in recommendation system. The majority of previous research either focused on single-target CDR (STCDR)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xiaopeng Liu , Juan Zhang , Chongqi Ren , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan , Zhimin Zhang

We identify an issue in multi-task learnable compression, in which a representation learned for one task does not positively contribute to the rate-distortion performance of a different task as much as expected, given the estimated amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Anderson de Andrade , Ivan Bajić

Anomaly detection in medical images is a challenging task, since anomalies are not typically available during training. Recent methods leverage a single pretext task coupled with a large-scale pre-trained model to reach state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bogdan Alexandru Bercean , Florinel Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Ciprian Mihai Ceausescu , Andreea Iuliana Ionescu , Radu Tudor Ionescu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) involves the concurrent training of multiple tasks, offering notable advantages for dense prediction tasks in computer vision. MTL not only reduces training and inference time as opposed to having multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Maxime Fontana , Michael Spratling , Miaojing Shi