Papers with multi-task scenarios
MoRE: A Mixture of Low-Rank Experts for Adaptive Multi-Task Learning (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized various domains, offering unprecedented performance across numerous tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a new Mixture of Low-Rank Experts (MoRE) for multi-task PEFT to improve performance of LLMs with fewer parameters. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance over multiple tasks and no additional inference cost. |
MoSLD: An Extremely Parameter-Efficient Mixture-of-Shared LoRAs for Multi-Task Learning (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | LoRA is a key technique for fine-tuning large pre-trained models, yet its performance in multi-task learning scenarios often falls short. |
| Approach: | They propose a mixture-of-shared-LoRAs model with a dropout strategy . they propose to share the upper projection matrix among different experts . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exhibits excellent performance in both single-task and multi-task scenarios with robust out-of-domain generalization capabilities. |
PrAd: Prompt Adaptive Tuning for Decoder-only Language Models (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Prompt-based methods suffer from increased input lengths and sensitivity to weight initialization . adapter-based approaches can substantially increase inference time . |
| Approach: | a new paradigm for prompt-based tuning addresses the problem of fine tuning pretrained models . prompt--based methods suffer from increased input lengths and sensitivity to weight initialization . a prompt-oriented approach employs adapters for flexible input transformation . |
| Outcome: | a proposed framework can achieve comparable or better performance and higher inference efficiency even in multi-task scenarios. |
WaveCoder: Widespread And Versatile Enhancement For Code Large Language Models By Instruction Tuning (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent work shows that Code Large Language Models can address a wide range of code-related tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to generate widespread and versatile instruction data from open source code datasets and use it to train code-related models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms open-source models in generalization ability across code-related tasks. |
MALoRA: Mixture of Asymmetric Low-Rank Adaptation for Enhanced Multi-Task Learning (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models (LLMs) can be fine-tuned to new tasks, but in multi-task scenarios, training imbalance and seesaw effect often arise. |
| Approach: | They propose a flexible fine-tuning framework that leverages asymmetric optimization among LoRA experts to reduce training imbalance and improve performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline methods in inter- and intra-task learning scenarios. |
Fisher Mask Nodes for Language Model Merging (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Pre-trained models are ubiquitous in natural language processing, but individual fine-tuned models require significant overhead in multi-task scenarios. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for fine-tuning pre-trained models for Transformers using Fisher information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms Fisher-weighted averaging in a fraction of the computational cost. |
Multi-task Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Model with Few-shot Queries (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing adversarial text attacks rely on abundant access to shared internal features and numerous queries, limited to a single task type. |
| Approach: | They propose a black-box attack that exploits the transferability of adversarial texts . they use a deep-level substitute model trained in a plug-and-play manner for text classification . |
| Outcome: | The proposed attack can target multiple tasks with minimal perturbations . it can target commercial APIs, large language models, and image-generation models . |
CoLA: Collaborative Low-Rank Adaptation (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | The scaling law of Large Language Models (LLMs) reveals diminishing return on performance as model scale increases. |
| Approach: | They propose a more flexible LoRA architecture with an efficient initialization scheme . they propose combining three collaborative strategies to enhance performance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms existing methods in low-sample scenarios. |
EIFBENCH: Extremely Complex Instruction Following Benchmark for Large Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focusing on single-task environments with limited constraints lack the complexity required to fully reflect the evolution of large language models (LLMs). |
| Approach: | They propose to use a Segment Policy Optimization algorithm to enhance the LLM's ability to accurately fulfill multi-task workflows. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmarks show that existing benchmarks lack the complexity required to fully reflect the evolution of large language models. |