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What is multi-task learning, and when does sharing a model across tasks help or hurt?

One model, several objectives, one shared backbone. The signal is knowing exactly why sharing helps (regularization, data efficiency) and the failure mode that sinks naive setups. Here is the answer.

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One model, several objectives, one shared backbone. The signal is knowing exactly why sharing helps (regularization, data efficiency) and the failure mode that sinks naive setups. Here is the answer.

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