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ArticleJournal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology2026

Multi-task learning for sparsity pattern heterogeneity: statistical and computational perspectives.

Kayhan Behdin, Gabriel Loewinger, Kenneth T Kishida, Giovanni Parmigiani, Rahul Mazumder

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Article in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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  1. Representation Retrieval Learning for Heterogeneous Data Integration.Journal of the American Statistical Association · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Kayhan BehdinOperations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Gabriel LoewingerMachine Learning Core, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Kenneth T KishidaDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Department of Neurosurgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.
Giovanni ParmigianiDepartment of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8783-5961
Rahul MazumderOperations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Funding

Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR001420 · NCATS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI ARD, JAMY D, FOLEY, KRISTIE L · 2015 to 2023
$32.3M
Computational and electrochemical substrates of social decision-making in humansR01MH124115 · NIMH · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI GU, XIAOSI, KISHIDA, KENNETH TUCKER · 2020 to 2024
$5.1M
Neuro-computational Approach to Determine a Neurochemical Basis of Mood and DepressionR01MH121099 · NIMH · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KISHIDA, KENNETH TUCKER · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
Real-time neurochemical encoding of reward- and punishment-prediction errors and associated subjective experiences in humansR01DA048096 · NIDA · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KISHIDA, KENNETH TUCKER · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Multi-Study Integer Programming Methods for Human VoltammeryF31DA052153 · NIDA · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI LOEWINGER, GABRIEL · 2020 to 2021
$71k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001420NIDA NIH HHS F31 DA052153NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA048096NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH121099NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH124115
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We consider a problem in multi-task learning (MTL) where multiple linear models are jointly trained on a collection of datasets ('tasks'). A key novelty of our framework is that it allows the sparsity pattern of regression coefficients and the values of non-zero coefficients to differ across tasks while still leveraging partially shared structure. Our methods encourage models to share information across tasks through

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error boundsmixed-integer programmingmulti-task learningsparse linear regressionvariable selection

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PMID42459560
PMCPMC13370345

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