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In few-shot learning scenarios, the challenge is to generalize and perform well on new unseen examples when only very few labeled examples are available for each task. Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) has gained the popularity as one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Sungyong Baik , Janghoon Choi , Heewon Kim , Dohee Cho , Jaesik Min , Kyoung Mu Lee

This paper presents a novel optimization method for maximizing generalization over tasks in meta-learning. The goal of meta-learning is to learn a model for an agent adapting rapidly when presented with previously unseen tasks. Tasks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Amir Erfan Eshratifar , David Eigen , Massoud Pedram

Meta-Reinforcement Learning (Meta-RL) aims to acquire meta-knowledge for quick adaptation to diverse tasks. However, applying these policies in real-world environments presents a significant challenge in balancing rapid adaptability with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Karam Daaboul , Florian Kuhm , Tim Joseph , J. Marius Zoellner

Meta-learning, or learning to learn, is a technique that can help to overcome resource scarcity in cross-lingual NLP problems, by enabling fast adaptation to new tasks. We apply model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) to the task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Anna Langedijk , Verna Dankers , Phillip Lippe , Sander Bos , Bryan Cardenas Guevara , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

In past years model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) has been one of the most promising approaches in meta-learning. It can be applied to different kinds of problems, e.g., reinforcement learning, but also shows good results on few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Thomas Goerttler , Klaus Obermayer

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

As a popular meta-learning approach, the model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm has been widely used due to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, the convergence of the general multi-step MAML still remains unexplored. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kaiyi Ji , Junjie Yang , Yingbin Liang

Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) has emerged as one of the most successful meta-learning techniques in few-shot learning. It enables us to learn a meta-initialization} of model parameters (that we call meta-model) to rapidly adapt to new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Ren Wang , Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Chuang Gan , Meng Wang

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) enables a single model to learn multiple tasks simultaneously, leveraging knowledge transfer among tasks for enhanced generalization, and has been widely applied across various domains. However, task imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaohan Qin , Xiaoxing Wang , Ning Liao , Junchi Yan

The capacity of meta-learning algorithms to quickly adapt to a variety of tasks, including ones they did not experience during meta-training, has been a key factor in the recent success of these methods on few-shot learning problems. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Tristan Deleu , Yoshua Bengio

Deep learning models require a large amount of data to perform well. When data is scarce for a target task, we can transfer the knowledge gained by training on similar tasks to quickly learn the target. A successful approach is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Alberto Bernacchia

Model agnostic meta-learning (MAML) is one of the most widely used gradient-based meta-learning, consisting of two optimization loops: an inner loop and outer loop. MAML learns the new task from meta-initialization parameters with an inner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jongyun Shin , Seunjin Han , Jangho Kim

A central capability of intelligent systems is the ability to continuously build upon previous experiences to speed up and enhance learning of new tasks. Two distinct research paradigms have studied this question. Meta-learning views this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Chelsea Finn , Aravind Rajeswaran , Sham Kakade , Sergey Levine

In this paper, we introduce a novel variation of model-agnostic meta-learning, where an extra multiplicative parameter is introduced in the inner-loop adaptation. Our variation creates a shortcut in the parameter space for the inner-loop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Chih-Jung Tracy Chang , Yuan Gao , Beicheng Lou

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

Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) and its variants are popular few-shot classification methods. They train an initializer across a variety of sampled learning tasks (also known as episodes) such that the initialized model can adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yangbin Chen , Yun Ma , Tom Ko , Jianping Wang , Qing Li

This paper investigates the use of nonparametric kernel-regression to obtain a tasksimilarity aware meta-learning algorithm. Our hypothesis is that the use of tasksimilarity helps meta-learning when the available tasks are limited and may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Arun Venkitaraman , Anders Hansson , Bo Wahlberg

This paper introduces a new and effective algorithm for learning kernels in a Multi-Task Learning (MTL) setting. Although, we consider a MTL scenario here, our approach can be easily applied to standard single task learning, as well. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Niloofar Yousefi , Cong Li , Mansooreh Mollaghasemi , Georgios Anagnostopoulos , Michael Georgiopoulos

Recent work has suggested that a good embedding is all we need to solve many few-shot learning benchmarks. Furthermore, other work has strongly suggested that Model Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) also works via this same method - by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Brando Miranda , Yu-Xiong Wang , Sanmi Koyejo

Learning general representations of text is a fundamental problem for many natural language understanding (NLU) tasks. Previously, researchers have proposed to use language model pre-training and multi-task learning to learn robust…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zi-Yi Dou , Keyi Yu , Antonios Anastasopoulos