This repository contains the source code for the paper

Shengchao Liu, Yingyu Liang, Anthony Gitter. Loss-Balanced Task Weighting to Reduce Negative Transfer in Multi-Task Learning . AAAI-SA 2019.

The figshare appendix is public here.

This repository implements several multi-task learning algorithms, including the Loss-Balanced Task Weighting (LBTW) approach. LBTW dynamically sets tasks weights while training a multi-task neural network.

• Anaconda2-4.3.1
• PyTorch=0.3
• scikit-learn=0.19

Randomly split PubChem BioAssay (PCBA) [1] into 5 folds. PCBA has 128 binary classification tasks.

• 128 Single-Task Learning (STL).
• 1 Multi-Task Learning (MTL).
• 128 Fine-Tuning.
• 2 GradNorm [2].
• 1 RMTL [3].
• 2 Loss-Balanced Task Weighting (LBTW).

[1] Wang, Yanli, Stephen H. Bryant, Tiejun Cheng, Jiyao Wang, Asta Gindulyte, Benjamin A. Shoemaker, Paul A. Thiessen, Siqian He, and Jian Zhang. "Pubchem bioassay: 2017 update." Nucleic acids research 45, no. D1: D955-D963, 2016.

[2] Chen, Zhao, Vijay Badrinarayanan, Chen-Yu Lee, and Andrew Rabinovich. "Gradnorm: Gradient normalization for adaptive loss balancing in deep multitask networks." arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02257, 2017.

[3] Liu, Shengchao. "Exploration on Deep Drug Discovery: Representation and Learning." University of Wisconsin-Madison, Master’s Thesis TR1854, 2018.

This project is released under the MIT license.

@article{liu2019loss,
    title={Loss-Balanced Task Weighting to Reduce Negative Transfer in Multi-Task Learning},
    author={Liu, Shengchao and Liang, Yingyu and Gitter, Anthony},
    booktitle={Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Student Abstract)},
    year={2019}
}