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Metalearning with Hebbian Fast Weights

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2018-07-16 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

We unify recent neural approaches to one-shot learning with older ideas of associative memory in a model for metalearning. Our model learns jointly to represent data and to bind class labels to representations in a single shot. It builds representations via slow weights, learned across tasks through SGD, while fast weights constructed by a Hebbian learning rule implement one-shot binding for each new task. On the Omniglot, Mini-ImageNet, and Penn Treebank one-shot learning benchmarks, our model achieves state-of-the-art results.

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@article{arxiv.1807.05076,
  title  = {Metalearning with Hebbian Fast Weights},
  author = {Tsendsuren Munkhdalai and Adam Trischler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05076},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1712.09926

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