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We propose a meta-learning method for semi-supervised learning that learns from multiple tasks with heterogeneous attribute spaces. The existing semi-supervised meta-learning methods assume that all tasks share the same attribute space,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to empower a model to tackle multiple tasks simultaneously. A recent development known as task arithmetic has revealed that several models, each fine-tuned for distinct tasks, can be directly merged into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Enneng Yang , Zhenyi Wang , Li Shen , Shiwei Liu , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Dacheng Tao

Sequence learning has attracted much research attention from the machine learning community in recent years. In many applications, a sequence learning task is usually associated with multiple temporally correlated auxiliary tasks, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Xueqing Wu , Lewen Wang , Yingce Xia , Weiqing Liu , Lijun Wu , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

In meta-learning an agent extracts knowledge from observed tasks, aiming to facilitate learning of novel future tasks. Under the assumption that future tasks are 'related' to previous tasks, the accumulated knowledge should be learned in a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-21 Ron Amit , Ron Meir

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, existing solutions heavily rely on the exploitation of lexical features and their distributional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 ChengCheng Han , Zeqiu Fan , Dongxiang Zhang , Minghui Qiu , Ming Gao , Aoying Zhou

This paper presents meta-sparsity, a framework for learning model sparsity, basically learning the parameter that controls the degree of sparsity, that allows deep neural networks (DNNs) to inherently generate optimal sparse shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Richa Upadhyay , Ronald Phlypo , Rajkumar Saini , Marcus Liwicki

Meta-learning enables rapid generalization to new tasks by learning knowledge from various tasks. It is intuitively assumed that as the training progresses, a model will acquire richer knowledge, leading to better generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jingyao Wang , Yi Ren , Zeen Song , Jianqi Zhang , Changwen Zheng , Wenwen Qiang

Meta-learning approaches have addressed few-shot problems by finding initialisations suited for fine-tuning to target tasks. Often there are additional properties within training data (which we refer to as context), not relevant to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Toby Perrett , Alessandro Masullo , Tilo Burghardt , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen

The paradigm of machine intelligence moves from purely supervised learning to a more practical scenario when many loosely related unlabeled data are available and labeled data is scarce. Most existing algorithms assume that the underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhenyi Wang , Li Shen , Le Fang , Qiuling Suo , Donglin Zhan , Tiehang Duan , Mingchen Gao

Gradient based meta-learning methods are prone to overfit on the meta-training set, and this behaviour is more prominent with large and complex networks. Moreover, large networks restrict the application of meta-learning models on low-power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Arnav Chavan , Rishabh Tiwari , Udbhav Bamba , Deepak K. Gupta

In this report we review memory-based meta-learning as a tool for building sample-efficient strategies that learn from past experience to adapt to any task within a target class. Our goal is to equip the reader with the conceptual…

The idea of using a separately trained target model (or teacher) to improve the performance of the student model has been increasingly popular in various machine learning domains, and meta-learning is no exception; a recent discovery shows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jihoon Tack , Jongjin Park , Hankook Lee , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Meta-learning is a general approach to equip machine learning models with the ability to handle few-shot scenarios when dealing with many tasks. Most existing meta-learning methods work based on the assumption that all tasks are of equal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhaofeng Si , Shu Hu , Kaiyi Ji , Siwei Lyu

Self-supervised pre-training of transformer models has revolutionized NLP applications. Such pre-training with language modeling objectives provides a useful initial point for parameters that generalize well to new tasks with fine-tuning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Trapit Bansal , Rishikesh Jha , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Andrew McCallum

Deep learning models require extensive architecture design exploration and hyperparameter optimization to perform well on a given task. The exploration of the model design space is often made by a human expert, and optimized using a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Catherine Wong , Andrea Gesmundo

The goal of meta-learning is to learn to adapt to a new task with only a few labeled examples. To tackle this problem in NLP, we propose $\textit{in-context tuning}$, which recasts adaptation and prediction as a simple sequence prediction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Yanda Chen , Ruiqi Zhong , Sheng Zha , George Karypis , He He

Task scheduling is a well-studied problem in the context of optimizing the Quality of Service (QoS) of cloud computing environments. In order to sustain the rapid growth of computational demands, one of the most important QoS metrics for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shreshth Tuli , Giuliano Casale , Nicholas R. Jennings

Loss function learning is a new meta-learning paradigm that aims to automate the essential task of designing a loss function for a machine learning model. Existing techniques for loss function learning have shown promising results, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been shown to outperform hand-designed models and help to democratize AI. However, NAS methods often start from scratch with each new task, making them computationally expensive and limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren

While tasks could come with varying the number of instances and classes in realistic settings, the existing meta-learning approaches for few-shot classification assume that the number of instances per task and class is fixed. Due to such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hae Beom Lee , Hayeon Lee , Donghyun Na , Saehoon Kim , Minseop Park , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang