arXiv Machine Learning By Chengfeng Wu, Tao Zou, Yanru Wu, Jingge Wang

CORE-MTL: Rethinking Gradient Balancing via Causal Orthogonal Representations

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arXiv:2606. 02221v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to construct a joint model for multiple tasks by sharing a common representation across domains.

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