When does MAML Work the Best? An Empirical Study on Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning in NLP Applications
Computation and Language
2024-04-25 v2
Abstract
Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML), a model-agnostic meta-learning method, is successfully employed in NLP applications including few-shot text classification and multi-domain low-resource language generation. Many impacting factors, including data quantity, similarity among tasks, and the balance between general language model and task-specific adaptation, can affect the performance of MAML in NLP, but few works have thoroughly studied them. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to investigate these impacting factors and conclude when MAML works the best based on the experimental results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.11700,
title = {When does MAML Work the Best? An Empirical Study on Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning in NLP Applications},
author = {Zequn Liu and Ruiyi Zhang and Yiping Song and Wei Ju and Ming Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.11700},
year = {2024}
}