Attentive Single-Tasking of Multiple Tasks

Understand

In this work we address task interference in universal networks by considering that a network is trained on multiple tasks, but performs one task at a time, an approach we refer to as "single-tasking multiple tasks".

• The network thus modifies its behaviour through task-dependent feature adaptation, or task attention.
• This gives the network the ability to accentuate the features that are adapted to a task, while shunning irrelevant ones.
• We further reduce task interference by forcing the task gradients to be statistically indistinguishable through adversarial training, ensuring that the common backbone architecture serving all tasks is not dominated by any of the task-specific gradients.