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Meta-learning for few-shot learning allows a machine to leverage previously acquired knowledge as a prior, thus improving the performance on novel tasks with only small amounts of data. However, most mainstream models suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yadan Luo , Zi Huang , Zheng Zhang , Ziwei Wang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Yang Yang

Meta-learning allows an intelligent agent to leverage prior learning episodes as a basis for quickly improving performance on a novel task. Bayesian hierarchical modeling provides a theoretical framework for formalizing meta-learning as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Erin Grant , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine , Trevor Darrell , Thomas Griffiths

Meta-Learning has gained increasing attention in the machine learning and artificial intelligence communities. In this paper, we introduce and study an adaptive submodular meta-learning problem. The input of our problem is a set of items,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Shaojie Tang , Jing Yuan

Adversarial training based on the maximum classifier discrepancy between two classifier structures has achieved great success in unsupervised domain adaptation tasks for image classification. The approach adopts the structure of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yiju Yang , Taejoon Kim , Guanghui Wang

Best-performing speech models are trained on large amounts of data in the language they are meant to work for. However, most languages have sparse data, making training models challenging. This shortage of data is even more prevalent in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 David-Gabriel Ion , Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Florin Pop , Mihaela-Claudia Cercel

Meta-learning, the notion of learning to learn, enables learning systems to quickly and flexibly solve new tasks. This usually involves defining a set of outer-loop meta-parameters that are then used to update a set of inner-loop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Chris Lu , Sebastian Towers , Jakob Foerster

Many real-world problems, including multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis, can greatly benefit from the ability to meta-learn large models with only a few task-specific components. Updating only these task-specific modules then allows the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Yutian Chen , Abram L. Friesen , Feryal Behbahani , Arnaud Doucet , David Budden , Matthew W. Hoffman , Nando de Freitas

In this work, we present a novel, machine-learning approach for constructing Multiclass Interpretable Scoring Systems (MISS) - a fully data-driven methodology for generating single, sparse, and user-friendly scoring systems for multiclass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Michal K. Grzeszczyk , Tomasz Trzciński , Arkadiusz Sitek

Meta learning aims at learning how to solve tasks, and thus it allows to estimate models that can be quickly adapted to new scenarios. This work explores distributionally robust minimization in meta learning for system identification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Matteo Rufolo , Dario Piga , Marco Forgione

Existing variance reduction techniques used in stochastic simulations for rare event analysis still require a substantial number of model evaluations to estimate small failure probabilities. In the context of complex, nonlinear finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Liuyun Xu , Seymour M. J. Spence

Learning Bayesian networks is often cast as an optimization problem, where the computational task is to find a structure that maximizes a statistically motivated score. By and large, existing learning tools address this optimization problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Nir Friedman , Iftach Nachman , Dana Pe'er

The field of meta-learning seeks to improve the ability of today's machine learning systems to adapt efficiently to small amounts of data. Typically this is accomplished by training a system with a parametrized update rule to improve a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Lucas D. Lingle

When related learning tasks are naturally arranged in a hierarchy, an appealing approach for coping with scarcity of instances is that of transfer learning using a hierarchical Bayes framework. As fully Bayesian computations can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Gal Elidan , Ben Packer , Geremy Heitz , Daphne Koller

In this paper, a high-speed online neural network classifier based on extreme learning machines for multi-label classification is proposed. In multi-label classification, each of the input data sample belongs to one or more than one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Rajasekar Venkatesan , Meng Joo Er , Mihika Dave , Mahardhika Pratama , Shiqian Wu

Meta-learning methods perform well on new within-distribution tasks but often fail when adapting to out-of-distribution target tasks, where transfer from source tasks can induce negative transfer. We propose a causally-aware Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Lotta Mäkinen , Jorge Loría , Samuel Kaski

Many important problems in science and engineering require solving the so-called parametric partial differential equations (PDEs), i.e., PDEs with different physical parameters, boundary conditions, shapes of computational domains, etc.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-06 Zhanhong Ye , Xiang Huang , Hongsheng Liu , Bin Dong

Data pruning, or instance selection, is an important problem in machine learning especially in terms of nearest neighbour classifier. However, in data pruning which speeds up the prediction phase, there is an issue related to the speed and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Marcin Blachnik , Piotr Ciepliński

Model ensemble is an effective strategy in continual learning, which alleviates catastrophic forgetting by interpolating model parameters, achieving knowledge fusion learned from different tasks. However, existing model ensemble methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yuchuan Mao , Zhi Gao , Xiaomeng Fan , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia , Chenchen Jing

Meta-learning, or learning-to-learn, seeks to design algorithms that can utilize previous experience to rapidly learn new skills or adapt to new environments. Representation learning -- a key tool for performing meta-learning -- learns a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Nilesh Tripuraneni , Chi Jin , Michael I. Jordan

Manifold learning is used for dimensionality reduction, with the goal of finding a projection subspace to increase and decrease the inter- and intraclass variances, respectively. However, a bottleneck for subspace learning methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Parisa Abdolrahim Poorheravi , Vincent Gaudet