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Many prediction problems, such as those that arise in the context of robotics, have a simplifying underlying structure that, if known, could accelerate learning. In this paper, we present a strategy for learning a set of neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Ferran Alet , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie P. Kaelbling

A central goal of meta-learning is to find a learning rule that enables fast adaptation across a set of tasks, by learning the appropriate inductive bias for that set. Most meta-learning algorithms try to find a \textit{global} learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Wonjoon Goo , Scott Niekum

Engineers learn from every design they create, building intuition that helps them quickly identify promising solutions for new problems. Topology optimization (TO) - a well-established computational method for designing structures with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Igor Kuszczak , Gawel Kus , Federico Bosi , Miguel A. Bessa

This article reviews meta-learning also known as learning-to-learn which seeks rapid and accurate model adaptation to unseen tasks with applications in highly automated AI, few-shot learning, natural language processing and robotics. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Huimin Peng

Meta-Learning is a subarea of Machine Learning that aims to take advantage of prior knowledge to learn faster and with fewer data [1]. There are different scenarios where meta-learning can be applied, and one of the most common is algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Gean Trindade Pereira , Moisés dos Santos , Edesio Alcobaça , Rafael Mantovani , André Carvalho

Meta-learning is a powerful paradigm for few-shot learning. Although with remarkable success witnessed in many applications, the existing optimization based meta-learning models with over-parameterized neural networks have been evidenced to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Hongduan Tian , Bo Liu , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Qingshan Liu

This work establishes a rigorous theoretical foundation for analyzing deep learning systems by leveraging Infinite Time Turing Machines (ITTMs), which extend classical computation into transfinite ordinal steps. Using ITTMs, we reinterpret…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Rukmal Weerawarana , Maxwell Braun

Efficient characterization of quantum devices is a significant challenge critical for the development of large scale quantum computers. We consider an experimentally motivated situation, in which we have a decent estimate of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Przemyslaw Bienias , Alireza Seif , Mohammad Hafezi

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 leverages related source tasks to learn an initialization that can be quickly fine-tuned to a target task with limited labeled examples. However, many popular meta-learning algorithms, such as model-agnostic meta-learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-24 Diana Cai , Rishit Sheth , Lester Mackey , Nicolo Fusi

How do learners acquire languages from the limited data available to them? This process must involve some inductive biases - factors that affect how a learner generalizes - but it is unclear which inductive biases can explain observed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-02 R. Thomas McCoy , Erin Grant , Paul Smolensky , Thomas L. Griffiths , Tal Linzen

Neural networks have been successfully applied in applications with a large amount of labeled data. However, the task of rapid generalization on new concepts with small training data while preserving performances on previously learned ones…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Meta-learning is a popular approach for learning new tasks with limited data by leveraging the commonalities among different tasks. However, meta-learned models can perform poorly when context data is too limited, or when data is drawn from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Young-Jin Park , Cesar Almecija , Apoorva Sharma , Navid Azizan

Recent studies on catastrophic forgetting during sequential learning typically focus on fixing the accuracy of the predictions for a previously learned task. In this paper we argue that the outputs of neural networks are subject to rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yuwen Xiong , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

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 algorithms use past experience to learn to quickly solve new tasks. In the context of reinforcement learning, meta-learning algorithms acquire reinforcement learning procedures to solve new problems more efficiently by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Abhishek Gupta , Benjamin Eysenbach , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

Machine learning methods adapt the parameters of a model, constrained to lie in a given model class, by using a fixed learning procedure based on data or active observations. Adaptation is done on a per-task basis, and retraining is needed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Osvaldo Simeone , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) do not have a predictable recognition behavior with respect to the input resolution change. This prevents the feasibility of deployment on different input image resolutions for a specific model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Duo Li , Anbang Yao , Qifeng Chen

Meta-learning is a branch of machine learning which aims to quickly adapt models, such as neural networks, to perform new tasks by learning an underlying structure across related tasks. In essence, models are being trained to learn new…

This paper briefly reviews the connections between meta-learning and self-supervised learning. Meta-learning can be applied to improve model generalization capability and to construct general AI algorithms. Self-supervised learning utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Huimin Peng