arXiv AI

TRIPROBE: Probing Task Separability Beyond Classification for XAI

TRIPROBE is a multi-level probing framework designed to diagnose task separability in machine learning pipelines. It evaluates separability across input spaces, learned feature representations, and classifier outputs by decomposing multi-task problems into binary subtasks and applying Foundational, Latent, and Final probes. Using Maximum Fisher's Discriminant Ratio, TRIPROBE identifies bottlenecks and task pairs that affect performance, as demonstrated on the Roshambo sEMG benchmark.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Leakage-Robust Evaluation and Data-Scale Sensitivity of Attention-Enhanced Multi-Task Learning for Joint Fault Diagnosis and Remaining Useful Life Estimation

arXiv:2607. 16493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-task deep learning models that jointly perform fault classification and remaining useful life (RUL) regression are increasingly used in predictive maintenance, yet reported performance can be strongly affected by how sliding-window sequences are split into training and test sets.

By Md Mahamudur Rahaman Shamim, Md. Nuruzzaman, Zannatul Ferdus, Md Rajib Ahmed, Abieer Nwshad Anward, Mohammad Tooneer, Johir Uddin Khan, Khalid Hossen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

LLM Router: Rethinking Routing with Prefill Activations

arXiv:2603. 20895v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing routers rely on semantic query features or handcrafted features, which often fail to capture model-specific failures or intrinsic task difficulty.

By Tanay Varshney, Annie Surla, Michelle Xu, Gomathy Venkata Krishnan, Maximilian Jeblick, David Austin, Neal Vaidya, Davide Onofrio
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

Vertical Fusion: Condensing Internal Representations for Robust ViT Classification

arXiv:2607. 10391v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite exposing rich intermediate representations, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are almost exclusively utilized as black-box feature extractors, where only the last layer is considered for downstream tasks.

By Francesco Di Salvo, Shyam Nandan Rai, Hamed Damirchi, Ignacio Meza De la Jara, Sebastian Doerrich, Marco Lents, Christian Ledig
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 10

SynIB: Informational Bottleneck for Maximizing Synergy in Multimodal Learning

arXiv:2606. 09853v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central objective in multimodal learning is to capture synergy: task-relevant information that arises only from the joint use of multiple modalities, and is not available from any single modality alone.

By Konstantinos Kontras, Teodora Gagaleska, Thomas Strypsteen, Christos Chatzichristos, Matthew Blaschko, Maarten De Vos, Paul Pu Liang
arXiv AI
Aug 25

From Isolation to Alignment: Unified LoRA for Efficient Multi-Task Learning

The paper introduces Align‑LoRA, a unified LoRA framework for multi‑task learning that replaces complex, isolated adapter designs with a single‑adapter model enhanced by a higher rank and an explicit alignment loss. It demonstrates that a router‑free, multi‑head model with high inter‑head redundancy can outperform more elaborate baselines, and that a unified LoRA can achieve competitive performance while enabling weight merging and zero inference latency. Extensive experiments and theoretical analysis confirm that Align‑LoRA surpasses prevailing approaches, offering a simpler, production‑friendly paradigm for parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning of large language models.

By Jinda Liu, Yi Chang, Yuan Wu