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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

Utilizing task-invariant prior knowledge extracted from related tasks, meta-learning is a principled framework that empowers learning a new task especially when data records are limited. A fundamental challenge in meta-learning is how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yilang Zhang , Bingcong Li , Georgios B. Giannakis

In this paper we will discuss metalearning and how we can go beyond the current classical learning paradigm. We will first address the importance of inductive biases in the learning process and what is at stake: the quantities of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Massinissa Hamidi , Aomar Osmani

Machine learning algorithms learn to solve a task, but are unable to improve their ability to learn. Meta-learning methods learn about machine learning algorithms and improve them so that they learn more quickly. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Calarina Muslimani , Alex Lewandowski , Dale Schuurmans , Matthew E. Taylor , Jun Luo

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 aims at optimizing the hyperparameters of a model class or training algorithm from the observation of data from a number of related tasks. Following the setting of Baxter [1], the tasks are assumed to belong to the same task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

The success of automated driving deployment is highly depending on the ability to develop an efficient and safe driving policy. The problem is well formulated under the framework of optimal control as a cost optimization problem. Model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Ahmad El Sallab , Mahmoud Saeed , Omar Abdel Tawab , Mohammed Abdou

Meta-learning is a branch of machine learning which trains neural network models to synthesize a wide variety of data in order to rapidly solve new problems. In process control, many systems have similar and well-understood dynamics, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Daniel G. McClement , Nathan P. Lawrence , Johan U. Backstrom , Philip D. Loewen , Michael G. Forbes , R. Bhushan Gopaluni

Can meta-learning discover generic ways of processing time series (TS) from a diverse dataset so as to greatly improve generalization on new TS coming from different datasets? This work provides positive evidence to this using a broad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Boris N. Oreshkin , Dmitri Carpov , Nicolas Chapados , Yoshua Bengio

Biased regularization and fine-tuning are two recent meta-learning approaches. They have been shown to be effective to tackle distributions of tasks, in which the tasks' target vectors are all close to a common meta-parameter vector.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Giulia Denevi , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto

One popular trend in meta-learning is to learn from many training tasks a common initialization for a gradient-based method that can be used to solve a new task with few samples. The theory of meta-learning is still in its early stages,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Nikunj Saunshi , Yi Zhang , Mikhail Khodak , Sanjeev Arora

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

Meta-reinforcement learning algorithms can enable robots to acquire new skills much more quickly, by leveraging prior experience to learn how to learn. However, much of the current research on meta-reinforcement learning focuses on task…

Meta-learning is a framework for learning learning algorithms through repeated interactions with an environment as opposed to designing them by hand. In recent years, this framework has established itself as a promising tool for building…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Marcel Binz , Ishita Dasgupta , Akshay Jagadish , Matthew Botvinick , Jane X. Wang , Eric Schulz

Meta-learning aims to learn a model that can handle multiple tasks generated from an unknown but shared distribution. However, typical meta-learning algorithms have assumed the tasks to be similar such that a single meta-learner is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Kyeongryeol Go , Seyoung Yun

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have demonstrated promising results on complex tasks, yet often require impractical numbers of samples since they learn from scratch. Meta-RL aims to address this challenge by leveraging experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Russell Mendonca , Abhishek Gupta , Rosen Kralev , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Meta-learning is a branch of machine learning which aims to synthesize data from a distribution of related tasks to efficiently solve new ones. In process control, many systems have similar and well-understood dynamics, which suggests it is…

In few-shot learning, classifiers are expected to generalize to unseen classes given only a small number of instances of each new class. One of the popular solutions to few-shot learning is metric-based meta-learning. However, it highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qiuhao Zeng

Meta-learning, also known as ``learning to learn'', enables models to acquire great generalization abilities by learning from various tasks. Recent advancements have made these models applicable across various fields without data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jingyao Wang , Yuxuan Yang , Wenwen Qiang , Changwen Zheng , Fuchun Sun

In-context learning enables transformer models to generalize to new tasks based solely on input prompts, without any need for weight updates. However, existing training paradigms typically rely on large, unstructured datasets that are…