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Multimodal meta-learning is a recent problem that extends conventional few-shot meta-learning by generalizing its setup to diverse multimodal task distributions. This setup makes a step towards mimicking how humans make use of a diverse set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Touba Malekzadeh , Ngai-Man Cheung

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

Adapting large language models (LLMs) to unseen tasks with in-context training samples without fine-tuning remains an important research problem. To learn a robust LLM that adapts well to unseen tasks, multiple meta-training approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sanchit Sinha , Yuguang Yue , Victor Soto , Mayank Kulkarni , Jianhua Lu , Aidong Zhang

Data-Free Meta-Learning (DFML) aims to derive knowledge from a collection of pre-trained models without accessing their original data, enabling the rapid adaptation to new unseen tasks. Current methods often overlook the heterogeneity among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yongxian Wei , Zixuan Hu , Li Shen , Zhenyi Wang , Yu Li , Chun Yuan , Dacheng Tao

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

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable emergent capabilities through extensive pre-training, they still face critical limitations in generalizing to specialized domains and handling diverse linguistic variations, known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jinwu Hu , Zhitian Zhang , Guohao Chen , Xutao Wen , Chao Shuai , Wei Luo , Bin Xiao , Yuanqing Li , Mingkui Tan

Learning quickly is of great importance for machine intelligence deployed in online platforms. With the capability of transferring knowledge from learned tasks, meta-learning has shown its effectiveness in online scenarios by continuously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Huaxiu Yao , Yingbo Zhou , Mehrdad Mahdavi , Zhenhui Li , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Model-agnostic meta-learners aim to acquire meta-learned parameters from similar tasks to adapt to novel tasks from the same distribution with few gradient updates. With the flexibility in the choice of models, those frameworks demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Risto Vuorio , Shao-Hua Sun , Hexiang Hu , Joseph J. Lim

Representation learning has been widely studied in the context of meta-learning, enabling rapid learning of new tasks through shared representations. Recent works such as MAML have explored using fine-tuning-based metrics, which measure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Kurtland Chua , Qi Lei , Jason D. Lee

In order to efficiently learn with small amount of data on new tasks, meta-learning transfers knowledge learned from previous tasks to the new ones. However, a critical challenge in meta-learning is the task heterogeneity which cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Huaxiu Yao , Xian Wu , Zhiqiang Tao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Ruirui Li , Zhenhui Li

Meta learning has been widely used to exploit rich-resource source tasks to improve the performance of low-resource target tasks. Unfortunately, most existing meta learning approaches treat different source tasks equally, ignoring the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yu Fu , Jie He , Yifan Yang , Qun Liu , Deyi Xiong

Meta-learning considers the problem of learning an efficient learning process that can leverage its past experience to accurately solve new tasks. However, the efficacy of meta-learning crucially depends on the distribution of tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Trapit Bansal , Karthick Gunasekaran , Tong Wang , Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Andrew McCallum

Meta learning has attracted much attention recently in machine learning community. Contrary to conventional machine learning aiming to learn inherent prediction rules to predict labels for new query data, meta learning aims to learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Jun Shu , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Despite recent success of deep network-based Reinforcement Learning (RL), it remains elusive to achieve human-level efficiency in learning novel tasks. While previous efforts attempt to address this challenge using meta-learning strategies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Haozhe Wang , Jiale Zhou , Xuming He

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) demonstrate remarkable intelligence but struggle with emerging tasks unseen during training in real-world applications. Training separate models for each new task is usually impractical. Multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xiao Zhang , Kangsheng Wang , Tianyu Hu , Huimin Ma

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

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

Learning to learn (L2L) trains a meta-learner to assist the learning of a task-specific base learner. Previously, it was shown that a meta-learner could learn the direct rules to update learner parameters; and that the learnt neural…

In meta-learning, the knowledge learned from previous tasks is transferred to new ones, but this transfer only works if tasks are related. Sharing information between unrelated tasks might hurt performance, and it is unclear how to transfer…

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