Papers on “multi-task learning”
Research on “multi-task learning” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers. Also as Markdown.
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Key findings#
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “multi-task learning” appeared in 1,128 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (1,069), operations research (31) and higher education and research (9).
- 229 of them were published in 2025, against 23 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Chinese Academy of Sciences (35), Harbin Institute of Technology (24) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (23).
- The journals publishing most of them were Expert Systems with Applications (156), Knowledge-Based Systems (87) and Pattern Recognition (70).
- The most-cited of them is “Learning without Forgetting” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2017), with 4,192 citations.
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 23 | 29 | 41 | 77 | 99 | 123 | 148 | 158 | 218 | 153 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Economics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 23 | 31 | 41 | 78 | 105 | 124 | 157 | 171 | 229 | 169 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Expert Systems with Applications | 156 |
| 2 | Knowledge-Based Systems | 87 |
| 3 | Pattern Recognition | 70 |
| 4 | Information Fusion | 43 |
| 5 | Neural Networks | 42 |
| 6 | Neural Computing and Applications | 41 |
| 7 | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 34 |
| 8 | IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems | 33 |
| 9 | Applied Intelligence | 28 |
| 10 | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 25 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese Academy of Sciences | 35 |
| 2 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 24 |
| 3 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 23 |
| 4 | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 20 |
| 5 | Wuhan University | 20 |
| 6 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 19 |
| 7 | Tianjin University | 18 |
| 8 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 16 |
| 9 | Zhejiang University | 16 |
| 10 | Nanyang Technological University | 15 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 534 |
| 2 | United States | 53 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 50 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 35 |
| 5 | India | 31 |
| 6 | Singapore | 28 |
| 7 | South Korea | 21 |
| 8 | Australia | 20 |
| 9 | Italy | 18 |
| 10 | Japan | 17 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | attention mechanism | 35 |
| 2 | contrastive learning | 35 |
| 3 | multimodal fusion | 28 |
| 4 | self-supervised learning | 25 |
| 5 | semantic segmentation | 24 |
| 6 | large language models | 22 |
| 7 | graph neural networks | 21 |
| 8 | knowledge distillation | 17 |
| 9 | transformer models | 17 |
Most-cited papers#
| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,192 | 39.0 | Learning without Forgetting | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2017-11-14 | Zhizhong Li, Derek Hoiem |
| 2 | 2,909 | 43.3 | A Survey on Multi-Task Learning | IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering | 2021-03-31 | Yu Zhang, Qiang Yang |
| 3 | 1,743 | 27.4 | Text Data Augmentation for Deep Learning | Journal Of Big Data | 2021-07-19 | Connor Shorten, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Borko Furht |
| 4 | 1,332 | 12.5 | HyperFace: A Deep Multi-Task Learning Framework for Face Detection, Landmark Localization, Pose Estimation, and Gender Recognition | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence | 2017-12-08 | Rajeev Ranjan, Vishal M. Patel, Rama Chellappa |
| 5 | 879 | 11.5 | Deep semantic segmentation of natural and medical images: a review | Artificial Intelligence Review | 2020-06-13 | Saeid Asgari Taghanaki, Kumar Abhishek, Joseph Cohen et al. |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “multi-task learning”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/multi-task-learning
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