Paper ID: 2406.18038

MT2ST: Adaptive Multi-Task to Single-Task Learning

Dong Liu, Meng Jiang

The conventional training approaches often face challenges in balancing the breadth of multi-task learning (MTL) with the depth of single-task learning (STL). To address this issue, we introduce the Multi-Task to Single-Task (MT2ST) framework, a groundbreaking approach that can combine the generalizability of MTL with the precision of STL. Our work include two strategies: 'Diminish' and 'Switch'. 'Diminish' Strategy will gradually reduce the influence of auxiliary tasks, while the 'Switch' strategy involves a shift from multi-tasking to single-tasking at a specific timepoint at the training process. In this paper, we propose the Multi-Task to Single-Task (MT2ST) framework, a novel approach that significantly enhances the efficiency and accuracy of word embedding training while concurrently addressing prevalent issues such as overfitting. Our empirical studies demonstrate that MT2ST can reduce training time by 67\% when contrasted with single-task learning approaches, and by 13\% compared to traditional multi-task learning methods. These findings underscore MT2ST's potential to be a powerful tools for word embedding training acceleration.

Submitted: Jun 26, 2024