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48 results for auxiliary task co-training

Sparse routing networks with co-training prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks trained on a sequence of tasks.
method Sparse routing networks with co-training to minimize interference between dissimilar tasks.
result Sparse routing networks with co-training outperform densely connected networks on benchmarks.

AuxiLearn combines auxiliary tasks into a single loss function.

problem Improving neural network performance on a main task using auxiliary tasks.
method Implicit differentiation to learn a network that combines auxiliary tasks into a single coherent objective function.
result AuxiLearn consistently outperforms competing methods in various tasks and domains.

Proposes a new method to learn distance metrics for semi-supervised learning.

problem Inconsistency between perturbed input sets and lack of pairwise relationship information.
method Metric Learning by Similarity Network (MLSN) co-training with a classification network to learn distance metrics adaptively.
result Performs better than state-of-the-art methods on empirical tasks.

Aux-NAS uses auxiliary labels to improve primary task performance without extra inference cost.

problem Improving primary task performance using auxiliary labels without increasing inference cost.
method Architecture-based approach with a flexible asymmetric structure for primary and auxiliary tasks, using Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to evolve networks with only primary-to-auxiliary connections.
result Achieves improved performance on multiple tasks without increasing inference cost.

AutoSeM automatically selects and balances auxiliary tasks in MTL.

problem Choosing and balancing auxiliary tasks in MTL.
method AutoSeM uses a Beta-Bernoulli multi-armed bandit with Thompson Sampling for task selection and a Gaussian Process for learning the mixing ratio.
result AutoSeM achieves significant performance boosts on GLUE language understanding tasks.

Master-slave architecture tackles combinatorial multi-armed bandits with diversity constraints.

problem Solving top-KK combinatorial multi-armed bandits with non-linear feedback and diversity constraints.
method Master-slave architecture with six slave models, teacher learning, and policy co-training.
result Significantly outperforms existing algorithms in synthetic and real datasets.

Adapts auxiliary losses using gradient similarity to improve neural network performance.

problem Statistical inefficiency in neural networks and difficulty in selecting helpful auxiliary tasks.
method Uses cosine similarity between gradients of tasks to adaptively weight auxiliary losses.
result Guaranteed convergence to critical points of the main task and practical usefulness across domains.

Proposes a method to improve graph neural networks on heterogeneous graphs using meta-paths.

problem Improving graph neural networks on heterogeneous graphs with auxiliary tasks.
method Self-supervised auxiliary learning with meta-paths for heterogeneous graphs.
result Consistently improves link prediction and node classification on heterogeneous graphs.

Proto-value networks improve deep reinforcement learning representations using auxiliary tasks.

problem Improving deep reinforcement learning representations with auxiliary tasks.
method Derived a new family of auxiliary tasks based on the successor measure, combined with off-policy learning rule.
result Proto-value networks produce rich features comparable to established algorithms using only linear approximation and a small number of interactions.

AuxNet uses auxiliary tasks to enhance semantic segmentation for automated driving.

problem Time-consuming and expensive semantic annotation for automated driving.
method Leveraging auxiliary tasks like depth estimation to improve semantic segmentation performance.
result 3% and 5% improvement in accuracy on SYNTHIA and KITTI datasets respectively.

Paper presents MTTDSC for better target-specific sentiment classification.

problem Improving accuracy in detecting and aggregating sentiments towards specific targets in social media.
method MTTDSC uses a multi-task learning approach with an auxiliary task for passage-level sentiment classification and a main task for target-specific sentiment classification.
result MTTDSC outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in sentiment classification.

In-N-Out improves model robustness to out-of-distribution data.

problem Learning robust models with few in-distribution labeled examples.
method Pre-training with auxiliary information and self-training with pseudolabels.
result In-N-Out outperforms auxiliary inputs or outputs alone on both in-distribution and OOD error.

HydaLearn dynamically adjusts task weights for better MTL performance.

problem Constant loss weights in MTL lead to poor results due to drifting relevance and varying mini-batch composition.
method HydaLearn uses mini-batch gradients to dynamically adjust task weights.
result HydaLearn improves performance on synthetic and real-world data.

This paper proposes a new RV prediction model using neural distributional transformation and co-training.

problem Predicting skewed and fat-tailed realized volatility (RV) is challenging.
method The paper uses a neural distributional transformation and co-training to predict RV. It jointly trains the transformation and prediction model using a maximum-likelihood objective function.
result The proposed method significantly outperforms other methods on a dataset of 100 stocks.

The paper introduces a new language for semi-supervised learning tasks.

problem Handling semi-supervised learning with declarative constraints.
method Developed a declarative language for modeling both supervised and semi-supervised learning tasks, including heuristics and combining multiple heuristics.
result Improved performance on relation-extraction tasks for real-world domains.

New bounds for transfer learning in linear models, improving generalization.

problem Understanding when auxiliary data helps in improving generalization in linear models.
method Derivation of exact error bounds and optimal task weights for linear regression and linear neural networks.
result First non-vacuous sufficient conditions for beneficial auxiliary learning in linear neural networks.

ScoreFusion fuses multiple diffusion models to enhance generative modeling of a target population.

problem Enhancing generative modeling of a target population with limited data.
method ScoreFusion uses KL barycenters of auxiliary populations and recasts the learning problem as score matching in denoising diffusion.
result ScoreFusion achieves a dimension-free sample complexity bound in total variation distance.

Robots learn tasks from a single demonstration using auxiliary video context.

problem Learning from demonstrations is challenging due to ambiguity and lack of labeled data.
method Metalearning to localize actions in auxiliary videos, learning reward functions, and reinforcement learning.
result Robots can learn multi-step tasks more effectively with auxiliary video context.

End-to-end autonomous driving framework using guided auxiliary supervision.

problem Learning to drive in highly stochastic urban settings.
method Multi-task Learning from Demonstration (MT-LfD) framework with end-to-end trainable network and supervised auxiliary tasks.
result Joint learning and supervised guidance facilitate faster and better driving performance.

Efficiently optimize expensive functions using auxiliary task information.

problem Optimizing expensive functions with limited data.
method Gaussian process with neural network mean and covariance functions, leveraging auxiliary task information.
result Identifies optimal points with fewer evaluations than existing methods.

GIRNet tackles multi-tasking with mixed domain sequences, improving sentiment and tagging tasks.

problem Labeling sequences with mixed domain data and position-specific inference.
method Unified position-sensitive multi-task RNN architecture with gated state sequences from auxiliary data.
result GIRNet achieves new state-of-the-art performance in sentiment classification, POS tagging, and target position-sensitive annotation.

MTCNet uses MTL to estimate crowd density and count.

problem Crowd count estimation challenges due to scale variations and perspective.
method MTL deep neural network architecture with two tasks: density estimation and count classification.
result Achieves lower MAE than state-of-the-art methods on multiple datasets.

Study proposes using auxiliary classification to improve unsupervised anomaly detection.

problem Challenging anomaly detection in high-dimensional data.
method Use of an auxiliary classification task to extract features from unlabelled data by supervised learning.
result Our feature learning approach yields best anomaly detection performance.

Paper improves speaker verification with federated learning and differential privacy.

problem Improving speaker verification accuracy using private data.
method Combining federated learning and differential privacy to train an auxiliary model that predicts vocal characteristics.
result 6% relative improvement in equal error rate over a baseline system.