Metric-based meta-learning has attracted a lot of attention due to its effectiveness and efficiency in few-shot learning. Recent studies show that metric scaling plays a crucial role in the performance of metric-based meta-learning algorithms. However, there still lacks a principled method for learning the metric scali…
Few-shot learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Most existing few-shot learning approaches belong to either metric-based meta-learning or optimization-based meta-learning category, both of which have achieved successes in the simplified "k-shot N-way" image c…
Paper proposes adaptive margin loss to improve few-shot learning.
problem Few-shot learning's difficulty in generalizing from a few examples.
method Develops class-relevant and task-relevant additive margin losses.
result Boosts performance of metric-based meta-learning approaches.
Meta-learning adapts models for unseen tasks across AI, robotics, and NLP.
problem Adapting models to unseen tasks efficiently and accurately.
method Black-box, metric-based, layered, and Bayesian approaches.
result Meta-learning enhances model generalization and adaptation to unseen tasks.
New method for incremental meta-learning reduces forgetting and improves performance.
problem Incremental meta-learning for few-shot classification tasks.
method Indirect Discriminant Alignment (IDA) with incremental updates.
result Incremental learning reduces forgetting and improves performance.
Improves few-shot learning using multi-task representation learning theory.
problem Few-shot learning with limited data.
method Multi-task representation learning theory and spectral-based regularization.
result Improved performance of meta-learning methods through new spectral regularization.
Paper introduces a novel framework for set input tasks in meta-learning.
problem Meta-learning problems with set inputs often require efficient summary networks.
method Prototype-oriented optimal transport (POT) framework to improve summary networks.
result Significantly improves summary statistics from sets in meta-learning.
Meta-learned confidence improves few-shot learning accuracy.
problem Improving accuracy in few-shot learning with unreliable model confidence.
method Meta-learning confidence weights for query samples to improve transductive inference performance.
result Meta-learned confidence leads to new state-of-the-art results on benchmark datasets.
Metric-based meta-learning techniques have successfully been applied to few-shot classification problems. In this paper, we propose to leverage cross-modal information to enhance metric-based few-shot learning methods. Visual and semantic feature spaces have different structures by definition. For certain concepts, vis…
Recent metric-based meta-learning approaches, which learn a metric space that generalizes well over combinatorial number of different classification tasks sampled from a task distribution, have been shown to be effective for few-shot classification tasks of unseen classes. They are often trained with episodic training …
A new metric-based principal curve method learns 1D manifolds from spatial data.
problem Learning 1D manifolds from spatial data.
method Metric-based Principal Curve (MPC) approach.
result The method effectively learns the shape of 1D manifolds from synthetic and real datasets.
Meta-learning improves feature extraction for few-shot tasks.
problem Understanding why meta-learning models perform better on few-shot classification.
method Developed hypotheses and a regularizer to improve standard training routines.
result Meta-learned models outperform classical training routines in few-shot classification.
A concise review of recent few-shot meta-learning methods.
problem Mimicking human fast adaptation to new concepts based on prior knowledge.
method Categorized into four branches based on technical characteristics.
result Current challenges and future prospects identified.
This paper introduces depth functions for ranking data, improving statistical summaries.
problem Lack of comprehensive statistical summaries for ranking data.
method Metric-based depth functions on symmetric group to define rankings, depths, and procedures.
result Novel depth functions provide a more informative summary of ranking data.
A new meta-learning framework that assigns weights to source tasks based on target samples.
problem Learning initialization for target tasks with limited labeled examples.
method A general framework that assigns weights to the loss of different source tasks, which can depend on the target samples. Provides upper bounds and develops a learning algorithm based on minimizing the error bound with respect to an empirical IPM.
result Empirically, the weighted meta-learning algorithm finds better initializations than uniformly-weighted meta-learning algorithms.
New method improves meta-learning performance by task-specific initialization.
problem Difficulties in generalizing and achieving theoretical guarantees in conditional meta-learning.
method Structured prediction approach for task-specific initialization.
result TASML improves performance of existing meta-learning models.
TaskNorm improves meta-learning performance by rethinking batch normalization.
problem Challenges in batch normalization for meta-learning with deep networks.
method Developed TaskNorm, a novel approach to batch normalization for meta-learning.
result TaskNorm consistently improves meta-learning performance across various datasets and meta-learning approaches.
Meta-learning balances task-specific modeling and optimization complexity.
problem Balancing accurate task-specific modeling with ease of optimization in meta-learning.
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of trade-off between modeling and optimization in meta-learning.
result Explicit bounds on modeling and optimization errors for non-convex and linear regression problems.
Meta-learning bounds derived using PAC-Bayes theory for improved generalization.
problem Uncertainty in generalization performance for meta-learning with new tasks.
method PAC-Bayes relative entropy bounds and empirical risk minimization (ERM) method.
result Competitive generalization performance and rapid convergence with data-dependent prior.
Meta-learning improves neural networks by adapting learning algorithms.
problem Conventional AI approaches solve tasks from scratch, but meta-learning aims to improve the learning algorithm.
method Meta-learning adapts a learning algorithm based on multiple learning episodes.
result Meta-learning can tackle deep learning challenges like data and computation bottlenecks.
Meta learning works well with overparameterized models, a phenomenon called 'benign overfitting'.
problem Understanding why overparameterized models perform well in few-shot learning.
method Analyzed the generalization performance of gradient-based meta learning with an overparameterized meta linear regression model.
result Demonstrated that overparameterized meta learning can still generalize well, a phenomenon called 'benign overfitting'.
Meta-learning helps models learn quickly from few samples.
problem Deep learning requires many samples, which are hard to get.
method Meta-learning optimizes models to adapt quickly to new tasks.
result Meta-learning can improve model efficiency and adaptability.
When fitting Bayesian machine learning models on scarce data, the main challenge is to obtain suitable prior knowledge and encode it into the model. Recent advances in meta-learning offer powerful methods for extracting such prior knowledge from data acquired in related tasks. When it comes to meta-learning in Gaussian…
Meta learning can adapt fast but is vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
problem Vulnerability of meta learning to adversarial attacks.
method Formal definition of adversarial attacks unique to meta learning, proposing an attacking algorithm.
result Meta learning is vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
Unified meta-learning framework from supervised learning.
problem Difficulty in comparing and evaluating meta-learning approaches.
method Treating meta-learning as supervised learning, reducing algorithms to supervised learning instances.
result Unified framework and improved model performance on few-shot learning.
BOML unifies meta-learning methods into a common bilevel optimization framework.
problem Meta-learning methods with diverse modeling aspects.
method Modularized bilevel optimization library in Python.
result Unified solution for various meta-learning formulations.
learn2learn simplifies meta-learning research by providing a library and standardized interfaces.
problem Prototyping and reproducibility issues in meta-learning.
method Developed a library (learn2learn) with common routines and standardized interfaces.
result Fosters a community around standardized software for meta-learning research.
MARS meta-learns function scores for improved predictive accuracy and uncertainty.
problem Difficulty in specifying expressive priors for Bayesian meta-learning.
method Meta-learning the score function of data-generating process marginals in the function space.
result State-of-the-art predictive accuracy and improved uncertainty estimates.
New PAC-Bayesian framework for flexible meta-learning.
problem Limitations in transferring knowledge between tasks in meta-learning.
method PAC-Bayesian theory applied to learning the learning algorithm.
result Flexibility in meta-learning mechanisms and improved prediction quality.
Meta-learning algorithm improves AI efficiency by teaching itself.
problem Overcoming meta-optimization challenges in AI learning.
method Bootstraps a target from the meta-learner and optimizes the meta-learner by minimizing distance under a chosen metric.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on Atari ALE benchmark and demonstrates efficiency gains in multi-task learning.
Self-referential meta learning avoids explicit optimization by modifying itself.
problem Dependency on human engineering in meta learning algorithms.
method Investigates self-referential meta learning systems that modify themselves without explicit optimization.
result Self-referential neural networks can improve their own modifications without explicit optimization.
VMGP extends Gaussian processes for Bayesian meta-learning, improving uncertainty prediction.
problem Bayesian meta-learning for few-shot tasks with non-Gaussian uncertainty.
method VMGP (Variational Meta-Gaussian Processes) extends Gaussian processes to model non-Gaussian predictive posteriors.
result VMGP significantly outperforms existing Bayesian meta-learning methods on complex tasks.
Meta-learning performance improved by keeping support sets fixed.
problem Effect of support set diversity on meta-learning performance.
method Fixed support sets across tasks in meta-learning.
result Not only does not reduce performance, but almost always improves it.
VSML unifies meta learning concepts and enables simple backpropagation.
problem Improving and unifying meta learning concepts for neural networks.
method Unified approach using variable shared meta learning and simple weight-sharing.
result Simple backpropagation can be implemented and meta learned without gradient calculation.
Bayesian MAML outperforms MAML in meta learning tasks with theoretical guarantees.
problem Theoretical understanding of Bayesian MAML's superiority over MAML.
method Comparison of meta test risks between Bayesian MAML and MAML in meta linear regression.
result Bayesian MAML has provably lower meta test risks than MAML in both distribution agnostic and linear centroid cases.
Meta-learning can perform well on non-convex models even with few samples, contrary to convex models.
problem Understanding the sample complexity of meta-learning for non-convex models.
method Constructing a simple meta-learning instance and analyzing the training dynamics of Reptile and multi-task representation learning.
result Meta-learning can achieve new task sample complexity of O(1) for non-convex models, unlike convex models which require Ω(d) samples. A framework for real-time edge intelligence using federated meta-learning.
problem Real-time intelligent decisions at edge devices with limited resources and data.
method Federated meta-learning approach for rapid adaptation of learned models.
result Effective framework demonstrated on various datasets.
Meta-learning framework improves zero-shot time-series forecasting.
problem Improving generalization on new time series from different datasets.
method Broad meta-learning framework with residual connections as adaptation mechanism.
result Viable zero-shot univariate forecasting without retraining.
Conditional meta-learning improves meta-learning performance in diverse task environments.
problem Meta-learning struggles with tasks that have heterogeneous complexity.
method Conditional meta-learning infers a task-specific meta-parameter vector.
result Conditional meta-learning outperforms standard meta-learning in diverse task environments.
Meta-learning improves few-shot acoustic event detection.
problem Detecting new audio events with limited labeled data.
method Formulated few-shot AED problem; explored supervised and meta-learning approaches.
result Meta-learning achieves superior performance in few-shot AED.
Meta-learning framework uses task similarity through nonparametric kernel regression.
problem Limited tasks and outliers/dissimilar tasks hinder meta-learning performance.
method Nonparametric kernel regression to quantify and use task similarity.
result Meta-learning algorithm outperforms existing methods in task-limited settings.
Meta-learning improves OoD detection with minimal in-distribution data.
problem Efficient OoD detection with limited in-distribution data.
method Meta-learning in latent space with Gaussian mixture models.
result Meta-learning enhances OoD detection performance.
A novel approach for unsupervised domain adaptation for neural networks is proposed. It relies on metric-based regularization of the learning process. The metric-based regularization aims at domain-invariant latent feature representations by means of maximizing the similarity between domain-specific activation distribu…
Meta-learning shows negative transfer between tasks, which MetaCRL addresses.
problem Negative transfer between tasks in meta-learning.
method Structural Causal Models (SCMs) and MetaCRL to eliminate task confounders.
result MetaCRL achieves state-of-the-art performance in various benchmark datasets.
EvoGrad improves efficiency in meta-learning and hyperparameter optimization.
problem Efficiently compute hypergradients for larger network architectures.
method Uses evolutionary techniques to estimate hypergradients without second-order derivatives or longer computational graphs.
result Significant improvements in efficiency, enabling scaling to bigger architectures.
Proposes a method to evaluate meta-learning performance based on task similarity.
problem Meta-learning performance evaluation ignores task similarity, leading to biased results.
method Generative approach using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to analyze task similarity.
result The proposed method provides an insightful evaluation of meta-learning algorithms, matching common intuition.
Surveying deep meta-learning to improve quick concept learning.
problem Limitation of deep neural networks in learning new concepts quickly.
method Categorizes deep meta-learning techniques into metric, model, and optimization-based approaches.
result Unified overview of current deep meta-learning techniques.
Meta-learning performance is affected by how task diversity is allocated, not just overall variability.
problem Meta-learning performance degrades when task diversity is unevenly distributed.
method Decomposed task-specific regression effects into structurally informative and orthogonal components.
result Meta-learning prediction degrades when a larger fraction of task variability is orthogonal and non-informative.