2020

Learning Functions to Study the Benefit of Multitask Learning

Bettgenhäuser, Gabriele, Hedderich, Michael A., Klakow, Dietrich

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We study and quantify the generalization patterns of multitask learning (MTL) models for sequence labeling tasks.

  • MTL models are trained to optimize a set of related tasks jointly.
  • Although multitask learning has achieved improved performance in some problems, there are also tasks that lose performance when trained together.
  • These mixed results motivate us to study the factors that impact the performance of MTL models.

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