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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/jucs.70549</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">70549</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>Topic I - Computing Methodologies</subject>
        </subj-group>
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        <article-title>LogSE: An Uncertainty-Based Multi-Task Loss Function for Learning Two Regression Tasks</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ghasemi-Naraghi</surname>
            <given-names>Zeinab</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Nickabadi</surname>
            <given-names>Ahmad</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">nickabadi@aut.ac.ir</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Safabakhsh</surname>
            <given-names>Reza</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran</addr-line>
        <institution>Amirkabir University of Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Tehran</addr-line>
        <country>Iran</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Ahmad Nickabadi (<email xlink:type="simple">nickabadi@aut.ac.ir</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>28</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>141</fpage>
      <lpage>159</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/97B400E7-0B9B-50B7-96D4-4286AF60DF18">97B400E7-0B9B-50B7-96D4-4286AF60DF18</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>06</month>
          <year>2021</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2021</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Zeinab Ghasemi-Naraghi, Ahmad Nickabadi, Reza Safabakhsh</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Multi-task learning (MTL) is a popular method in machine learning which utilizes related information of multi tasks to learn a task more efficiently and accurately. Naively, one can benefit from MTL by using a weighted linear sum of the different tasks loss functions. Manual specification of appropriate weights is difficult and typically does not improve performance, so it is critical to find an automatic weighting strategy for MTL. Also, there are three types of uncertainties that are captured in deep learning. Epistemic uncertainty is related to the lack of data. Heteroscedas- tic aleatoric uncertainty depends on the input data and differs from one input to another. In this paper, we focus on the third type, homoscedastic aleatoric uncertainty, which is constant for differ- ent inputs and is task-dependent. There are some methods for learning uncertainty-based weights as the parameters of a model. But in this paper, we introduce a novel multi-task loss function to capture homoscedastic uncertainty in multi regression tasks models, without increasing the complexity of the network. As the experiments show, the proposed loss function aids in learning a multi regression tasks network fairly with higher accuracy in fewer training steps.</p>
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