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SPARC improves continual learning with minimal memory and computational overhead.

problem Efficient continual learning for deep neural networks.
method Combines task-specific working memories and task-agnostic semantic memory.
result Significantly reduces parameter usage (6% of full-model surrogates) while maintaining performance.

In this work we study generalization of neural networks in gradient-based meta-learning by analyzing various properties of the objective landscapes. We experimentally demonstrate that as meta-training progresses, the meta-test solutions, obtained after adapting the meta-train solution of the model, to new tasks via few…

2019-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Graph representation learning, aiming to learn low-dimensional representations which capture the geometric dependencies between nodes in the original graph, has gained increasing popularity in a variety of graph analysis tasks, including node classification and link prediction. Existing representation learning methods …

2019-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Low-rank framework for task-specific LLM ranking from sparse comparisons.

problem Challenges in reliable task-specific ranking of LLMs under sparse, imbalanced comparisons.
method Low-rank modeling of task-by-model ability matrix, max-norm accurate estimator, task-wise top-K recovery guarantees, uncertainty quantification framework.
result Improves sample efficiency and produces tighter, better-calibrated ranking certificates.

Many real-world problems, including multi-speaker text-to-speech synthesis, can greatly benefit from the ability to meta-learn large models with only a few task-specific components. Updating only these task-specific modules then allows the model to be adapted to low-data tasks for as many steps as necessary without ris…

2019-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm preserves transport maps for better diffusion model training.

problem Training diffusion models with task-specific optimality structures.
method Generalized Schrödinger Bridge Matching (GSBM), inspired by conditional stochastic optimal control.
result GSBM better preserves transport maps, enabling stable convergence and improved scalability.

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.

This work improves RL for complex robotic tasks by guiding exploration with task-specific goal distributions.

problem Solving long-horizon, complex sequential tasks in robotics with sparse rewards.
method Extends hindsight relabelling to task-specific goal distributions using a small set of demonstrations.
result Significantly higher overall performance on complex robotic manipulation tasks.

Algorithm learns which weights to share in deep multi-task learning.

problem Difficulty in deciding which weights to share between tasks in deep learning models.
method Combines natural evolution strategy and stochastic gradient descent to learn optimal weight sharing.
result Task-specific networks achieve lower test errors than existing methods on multi-task learning datasets.

Unified MTL framework for heterogeneous data integrates shared and task-specific encoders.

problem Efficiently sharing information across multiple tasks with heterogeneous data.
method Dual-encoder framework with task-shared and task-specific encoders.
result Unified algorithm alternates learning task-specific and shared encoders and coefficients.

Few-shot Learning aims to learn classifiers for new classes with only a few training examples per class. Existing meta-learning or metric-learning based few-shot learning approaches are limited in handling diverse domains with various number of labels. The meta-learning approaches train a meta learner to predict weight…

2019-01-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper introduces Zap, a generic machine learning pipeline for making predictions based on online user behavior. Zap combines well known techniques for processing sequential data with more obscure techniques such as Bloom filters, bucketing, and model calibration into an end-to-end solution. The pipeline creates we…

2018-07-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent advancements in language representation models such as BERT have led to a rapid improvement in numerous natural language processing tasks. However, language models usually consist of a few hundred million trainable parameters with embedding space distributed across multiple layers, thus making them challenging t…

2019-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

A tensor model for meta-learning adapts to task-specific features.

problem Learning shared representations for diverse tasks without task-specific observable information.
method Modeling meta-parameters as an order-3 tensor, estimating through tensor regression and method of moments.
result Tensor-based approach improves meta-learning performance with fewer samples.

UCB-TQL learns from multiple tasks with shared dynamics and adapts to task-specific variations.

problem Transfer reinforcement learning with composite MDPs where tasks share core dynamics but have sparse differences.
method UCB-TQL, a novel transfer RL algorithm for composite MDPs.
result Achieved a regret bound of ildeO(eH5N) ilde{O}(\sqrt{eH^5N}) that scales independently of the ambient dimension.

Paper explores how knowledge distillation transfers inductive biases between models.

problem Transferring inductive biases between models for tasks with limited data.
method Knowledge distillation applied to models with different inductive biases (LSTMs vs. Transformers, CNNs vs. MLPs).
result Effect of inductive biases is transferred through knowledge distillation, impacting both performance and solution characteristics.

Gradient-based meta-learning methods leverage gradient descent to learn the commonalities among various tasks. While previous such methods have been successful in meta-learning tasks, they resort to simple gradient descent during meta-testing. Our primary contribution is the {\em MT-net}, which enables the meta-learner…

2018-01-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Configuration spaces for computer systems can be challenging for traditional and automatic tuning strategies. Injecting task-specific knowledge into the tuner for a task may allow for more efficient exploration of candidate configurations. We apply this idea to the task of index set selection to accelerate database wor…

2019-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we connect two distinct concepts for unsupervised domain adaptation: feature distribution alignment between domains by utilizing the task-specific decision boundary and the Wasserstein metric. Our proposed sliced Wasserstein discrepancy (SWD) is designed to capture the natural notion of dissimilarity betw…

2019-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New method prevents forgetting in LLMs by dynamically identifying task-specific subspaces.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning of LLMs.
method Adaptive Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for constrained full fine-tuning.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results in continual learning benchmarks.

We present a class of algorithms capable of directly training deep neural networks with respect to large families of task-specific performance measures such as the F-measure and the Kullback-Leibler divergence that are structured and non-decomposable. This presents a departure from standard deep learning techniques tha…

2018-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper introduces WWAggr for ensemble CPD, improving accuracy and decision threshold selection.

problem Challenges in detecting abrupt distribution shifts in high-dimensional data streams.
method Introduces WWAggr, a novel task-specific ensemble aggregation method based on Wasserstein distance.
result Demonstrates WWAggr outperforms standard aggregation techniques and decision threshold selection.

A new framework for federated continual learning reduces interference and improves performance.

problem Learning from a sequence of tasks with limited data from each client.
method Federated Weighted Inter-client Transfer (FedWeIT) framework.
result FedWeIT significantly outperforms existing methods with reduced communication cost.

Building highly non-linear and non-parametric models is central to several state-of-the-art machine learning systems. Kernel methods form an important class of techniques that induce a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) for inferring non-linear models through the construction of similarity functions from data. The…

2017-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

The composition of elementary behaviors to solve challenging transfer learning problems is one of the key elements in building intelligent machines. To date, there has been plenty of work on learning task-specific policies or skills but almost no focus on composing necessary, task-agnostic skills to find a solution to …

2019-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

CAM-GAN improves GANs for continual learning with efficient feature map transformations.

problem Efficient continual learning for GANs with reduced parameter growth.
method Designing and leveraging parameter-efficient feature map transformations, including global and task-specific parameters, residual bias, and Fisher information matrix.
result Significantly improved model performance and high-quality samples with fewer parameters.

He et al. (2018) have called into question the utility of pre-training by showing that training from scratch can often yield similar performance to pre-training. We show that although pre-training may not improve performance on traditional classification metrics, it improves model robustness and uncertainty estimates. …

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Meta-learn Bayesian inference for task-specific BNNs using amortised inference.

problem Efficiently learning Bayesian inference for small-scale probabilistic meta-learning.
method Replace global inducing points with actual data to create a set of approximate likelihoods, train a meta-model to learn these parameters across related datasets.
result Meta-learned inference can be applied to task-specific BNNs, improving efficiency and scalability.

Unified scoring model improves efficiency and performance across multiple tasks.

problem Efficient and resource-efficient automated scoring for diverse tasks.
method Knowledge-distilled multi-task Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) approach.
result Comparable performance to task-specific models with significantly less storage and training resources.

TSFMs improve financial forecasting across diverse tasks with strong transferability.

problem Complex nonlinear relationships, temporal dependencies, and limited data in financial time series forecasting.
method Pretraining on diverse time series corpora followed by task-specific adaptation.
result Tiny Time Mixers (TTM) achieved 25-50% better performance on limited data and 15-30% improvements on longer datasets.

Paper presents a probabilistic framework for diffusion synchronization.

problem Improper application of heuristics leads to suboptimal results in diffusion synchronization.
method Develops a probabilistic framework to analyze and adapt correlation models for each specific task.
result Achieves better results by identifying optimal correlation models per task.