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Meta-learning usually refers to a learning algorithm that learns from other learning algorithms. The problem of uncertainty in the predictions of neural networks shows that the world is only partially predictable and a learned neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yuwei Sun

As a subset of machine learning, meta-learning, or learning to learn, aims at improving the model's capabilities by employing prior knowledge and experience. A meta-learning paradigm can appropriately tackle the conventional challenges of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Alireza Rafiei , Ronald Moore , Sina Jahromi , Farshid Hajati , Rishikesan Kamaleswaran

Meta-learning empowers learning systems with the ability to acquire knowledge from multiple tasks, enabling faster adaptation and generalization to new tasks. This review provides a comprehensive technical overview of meta-learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Anna Vettoruzzo , Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia , Joaquin Vanschoren , Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson , KC Santosh

We propose a novel and flexible approach to meta-learning for learning-to-learn from only a few examples. Our framework is motivated by actor-critic reinforcement learning, but can be applied to both reinforcement and supervised learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Flood Sung , Li Zhang , Tao Xiang , Timothy Hospedales , Yongxin Yang

Meta learning is a promising solution to few-shot learning problems. However, existing meta learning methods are restricted to the scenarios where training and application tasks share the same out-put structure. To obtain a meta model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Yingtian Zou , Jiashi Feng

In this paper, we introduce a discrete variant of the meta-learning framework. Meta-learning aims at exploiting prior experience and data to improve performance on future tasks. By now, there exist numerous formulations for meta-learning in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Arman Adibi , Aryan Mokhtari , Hamed Hassani

Integrating knowledge across different domains is an essential feature of human learning. Learning paradigms such as transfer learning, meta-learning, and multi-task learning reflect the human learning process by exploiting the prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Richa Upadhyay , Ronald Phlypo , Rajkumar Saini , Marcus Liwicki

Meta-learning, or learning to learn, is the science of systematically observing how different machine learning approaches perform on a wide range of learning tasks, and then learning from this experience, or meta-data, to learn new tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Joaquin Vanschoren

In this paper, we propose a learning algorithm that enables a model to quickly exploit commonalities among related tasks from an unseen task distribution, before quickly adapting to specific tasks from that same distribution. We investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Arnout Devos , Yatin Dandi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence but often lack performance when faced with out-of-distribution (OOD) data, a common scenario due to the inevitable domain shifts in real-world applications. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Arsham Gholamzadeh Khoee , Yinan Yu , Robert Feldt

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

Learning-to-learn or meta-learning leverages data-driven inductive bias to increase the efficiency of learning on a novel task. This approach encounters difficulty when transfer is not advantageous, for instance, when tasks are considerably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Ghassen Jerfel , Erin Grant , Thomas L. Griffiths , Katherine Heller

Recent years have witnessed an abundance of new publications and approaches on meta-learning. This community-wide enthusiasm has sparked great insights but has also created a plethora of seemingly different frameworks, which can be hard to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Wei-Lun Chao , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Humans can often quickly and efficiently solve complex new learning tasks given only a small set of examples. In contrast, modern artificially intelligent systems often require thousands or millions of observations in order to solve even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Christian Raymond

Meta-learning seeks to learn a well-generalized model initialization from training tasks to solve unseen tasks. From the "learning to learn" perspective, the quality of the initialization is modeled with one-step gradient decent in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Jingyao Wang , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Hui Xiong , Gang Hua

Meta-learning often referred to as learning-to-learn is a promising notion raised to mimic human learning by exploiting the knowledge of prior tasks but being able to adapt quickly to novel tasks. A plethora of models has emerged in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jicang Cai , Saeed Vahidian , Weijia Wang , Mohsen Joneidi , Bill Lin

Humans are highly effective at utilizing prior knowledge to adapt to novel tasks, a capability that standard machine learning models struggle to replicate due to their reliance on task-specific training. Meta-learning overcomes this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Björn Hoppmann , Christoph Scholz

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in many machine learning tasks such as image classification, speech recognition, and game playing. However, these breakthroughs are often difficult to translate into real-world engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Lisha Chen , Sharu Theresa Jose , Ivana Nikoloska , Sangwoo Park , Tianyi Chen , Osvaldo Simeone

Meta-learning aims to develop algorithms that can learn from other learning algorithms to adapt to new and changing environments. This requires a model of how other learning algorithms operate and perform in different contexts, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yuwei Sun

We introduce a new hierarchical deep learning framework for recursive higher-order meta-learning that enables neural networks (NNs) to construct, solve, and generalise across hierarchies of tasks. Central to this approach is a generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 David H. Mguni