This research finds three meta-indicators for university rankings.
problem Complexity in university ranking systems.
method Interpretable machine learning approach.
result Identified three meta-indicators: time, space, and relationships.
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MAT combines meta-learning and adversarial training to defend against universal patches.
problem Defending against universal patches that fool models in various contexts.
method Meta adversarial training (MAT) integrates meta-learning with adversarial training.
result MAT increases robustness against universal patch attacks on image classification and traffic-light detection.
New method generates universal adversarial perturbations across different image sources.
problem Certifying robustness of deep learning models with universal adversarial perturbations across various image sources.
method Few-shot learning approach using bilevel optimization and learning-to-optimize techniques.
result Improved attack success rate and faster performance compared to existing methods.
FinRL-Meta creates diverse market environments for DRL in finance.
problem Inaccurate financial data and diverse market environments challenge DRL in finance.
method Open-source data processing tools, hundreds of market environments, and multiprocessing.
result FinRL-Meta improves DRL accuracy and speed in financial simulations.
URT layer improves few-shot image classification across diverse domains.
problem Few-shot image classification in multi-domain settings.
method Meta-learns to dynamically re-weight and compose domain-specific representations.
result Sets new state-of-the-art on Meta-Dataset.
OptFormer learns universal HPO from diverse datasets.
problem Learning HPO from experiments with different hyperparameters.
method Text-based Transformer framework for joint policy and function prediction.
result OptFormer can imitate multiple HPO algorithms and improve predictions.
New method makes robust estimators work without knowing corruption levels.
problem Robust estimation algorithms struggle with unknown corruption levels.
method Abstracted geometric puzzle solution to universal meta technique.
result Converts any robust estimator to work without corruption bounds.
Gradient descent can always optimize certain neural networks.
problem Designing neural networks for successful optimization.
method Discussion and demonstration of universality of gradient descent optimization.
result Existence of a neural network extension that can be trained by gradient descent.
New MCMC method improves sampling efficiency across diverse structural models.
problem Low sampling efficiency in generic MCMC methods for specific problems.
method Adaptive Principal-Component (PC) Meta-learning Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (APM-SGHMC) algorithm.
result Universal samplers achieve zero-shot generalization across structurally distinct models.
Using a proprietary dataset of meta-orders and prediction signals, and assuming a quasi-linear impact model, we deconvolve market impact from past correlated trades and a predictable return component to elicit the temporal dependence of the market impact of a single daily meta-order, over a ten day horizon in various e…
Learning models of artificial intelligence can nowadays perform very well on a large variety of tasks. However, in practice different task environments are best handled by different learning models, rather than a single, universal, approach. Most non-trivial models thus require the adjustment of several to many learnin…
Automates OD model selection via meta-learning.
problem Selecting effective OD models for new datasets.
method Meta-learning approach based on past model performances.
result MetaOD selects models significantly outperforming existing methods.
Meta-learning predicts optimal ensemble size and methods for time series forecasting.
problem Finding the best ensemble of time series forecasting methods.
method Two-step approach using meta-learning to predict ensemble size and methods.
result Meta-learning outperformed benchmarks in forecasting errors for all data types and horizons.
Effective implementations of sampling-based probabilistic inference often require manually constructed, model-specific proposals. Inspired by recent progresses in meta-learning for training learning agents that can generalize to unseen environments, we propose a meta-learning approach to building effective and generali…
Meta-learning predicts stock trading volumes by learning from each stock's unique patterns.
problem Predicting trading volumes for different stocks using a universal model.
method Dual-process meta-learning framework that learns common patterns with a meta-learner and specific patterns with stock-dependent parameters.
result Improves performance of various baseline models in volume predictions.
Universal approach combines OOD detection scores for robustness.
problem Combining diverse OOD detection scores for robustness.
method Quantile normalization to p-values, meta-analysis, probabilistic interpretation.
result Significantly improved robustness and performance across diverse OOD detection scenarios.
The Gaussian Neural Processstat.ML
GNP models predictive correlations and outperforms NPs.
problem Training and understanding of Neural Processes.
method Proposed a new model, Gaussian Neural Process (GNP), which incorporates translation equivariance and provides universal approximation guarantees.
result Demonstrates encouraging performance and provides universal approximation guarantees.
Two new methods generate probabilistic forecasts of individual treatment effects.
problem Generating probabilistic forecasts of individual treatment effects for risk-aware decision-making.
method Proposes CCT and CMC meta-learners combining conformal predictive systems with analytic convolution or Monte Carlo sampling.
result Achieve probabilistically calibrated predictive distributions and performant continuous ranked probability scores.
Effective feature representation is key to the predictive performance of any algorithm. This paper introduces a meta-procedure, called Non-Euclidean Upgrading (NEU), which learns feature maps that are expressive enough to embed the universal approximation property (UAP) into most model classes while only outputting fea…
Bayesian theory explains market impact of large trades.
problem Reduction of price impact from large trades.
method Bayesian approach incorporating all trade information.
result Recovery of market impact laws including square-root and linear regimes.
Universal online optimization for dynamic environments using uniclass prediction.
problem Online optimization in changing environments with dynamic regret.
method Reduces dynamic online optimization to uniclass prediction problem, allowing control over dynamic regret bounds.
result First paper with state-of-the-art dynamic regret guarantees for general convex cost functions.
In this paper, we study adaptive online convex optimization, and aim to design a universal algorithm that achieves optimal regret bounds for multiple common types of loss functions. Existing universal methods are limited in the sense that they are optimal for only a subclass of loss functions. To address this limitatio…
Dida learns meta-features invariant to feature permutations.
problem Learning invariant meta-features from dataset samples.
method Distribution-based deep architecture inheriting universal approximation and robustness.
result Dida outperforms state-of-the-art methods on dataset-level tasks.
This work identifies and mitigates topological bias in HGNNs using meta-weighting and debiasing.
problem Topological bias in HGNNs affects model performance on specific nodes.
method Meta-weighting adjacency matrix, PageRank projection, debiasing structure.
result The debiasing structure improves HGNNs' performance and debiasing.
Bayesian algorithms perform well even with misspecified priors, especially in meta-learning.
problem Performance degradation of Bayesian algorithms with misspecified priors.
method Thompson sampling and meta-learning analysis with misspecified priors.
result Thompson sampling's performance degrades gracefully with misspecification, with a bound of .
New method achieves both universality and adaptivity in online convex optimization.
problem Achieve optimal regret guarantees without prior knowledge of function curvature.
method Introduces UniGrad, a novel approach that achieves both universality and adaptivity.
result Achieves universal regret guarantees that adapt to gradient variation.
We make a few observations on the absence of geometric and topological rigidity for acylindrically hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic groups. In particular, we demonstrate the lack of a well-defined limit set for acylindrical actions on hyperbolic spaces, even under the assumption of universality. We also prove a sta…
Develops HMRL for sparse reward RL problems, improving meta policy efficiency and transferability.
problem Difficulty in learning meta policies for sparse reward RL problems.
method Hyper-Meta RL framework with cross-environment meta state embedding and shaped meta reward.
result Improves meta policy generalization and efficiency for sparse reward RL problems.
Transferring knowledge across tasks to improve data-efficiency is one of the open key challenges in the field of global black-box optimization. Readily available algorithms are typically designed to be universal optimizers and, therefore, often suboptimal for specific tasks. We propose a novel transfer learning method …
MetaPred: Meta-Learning for Clinical Risk Prediction with Limited Patient Electronic Health Recordscs.LG
In recent years, increasingly augmentation of health data, such as patient Electronic Health Records (EHR), are becoming readily available. This provides an unprecedented opportunity for knowledge discovery and data mining algorithms to dig insights from them, which can, later on, be helpful to the improvement of the q…
A new meta-meta classification method tackles few-shot learning tasks.
problem Learning with limited data in small-data settings.
method Designing an ensemble of learners for a large set of problems, then learning how to combine them for a new problem.
result Meta-meta classification outperforms traditional meta-learning and ensembling approaches in one-shot learning 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.
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.
Gradient-based meta-RL fails with incorrect task distributions, leading to instability and poor performance.
problem Gradient-based meta-RL's sensitivity to task distributions causes instability and poor performance.
method Proposes meta Active Domain Randomization (meta-ADR) to learn task distributions for gradient-based meta-RL.
result Meta-ADR improves stability and generalization of MAML on simulated locomotion and navigation tasks.
Meta-learning overfits both model and base learner; meta-augmentation helps.
problem Meta-learning overfits model and base learner.
method Use an information-theoretic framework to describe and demonstrate meta-augmentation.
result Meta-augmentation produces large complementary benefits to meta-regularization.
M3PO improves model-based meta-RL with theoretical guarantees.
problem Improving sample efficiency in multi-task RL with theoretical guarantees.
method Extending Janner et al. (2019) theorems, proposing M3PO with performance guarantees.
result M3PO outperforms existing methods in continuous-control benchmarks.
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.
Paper tackles offline meta-reinforcement learning with a new algorithm.
problem Performing reinforcement learning on limited data from a new task.
method Meta-Actor Critic with Advantage Weighting (MACAW) algorithm.
result Achieves notable gains over prior methods on offline meta-RL benchmarks.
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.
Modified Meta-TS for linear contextual bandits reduces regret.
problem Optimizing decision-making in dynamic environments with context vectors.
method Meta-TSLB algorithm for linear contextual bandits, analyzing Bayes regret.
result Derives an bound on Bayes regret.
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.
Local nonparametric meta-learning improves meta-generalization across tasks.
problem Meta-learning struggles with global inductive biases and out-of-distribution tasks.
method Proposes a local, nonparametric meta-learning algorithm using meta-trained local learning rules.
result Improved meta-generalization and state-of-the-art results in robotics benchmarks.
Credit assignment in Meta-reinforcement learning (Meta-RL) is still poorly understood. Existing methods either neglect credit assignment to pre-adaptation behavior or implement it naively. This leads to poor sample-efficiency during meta-training as well as ineffective task identification strategies. This paper provide…
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.
F-PACOH improves meta-learners' reliability in uncertain regions.
problem Overconfident uncertainty estimates in meta-learning.
method Meta-learning priors as stochastic processes in function space, directly steering predictions towards high epistemic uncertainty.
result Significantly outperforms other meta-learners in Bayesian Optimization.
Meta-learning, or learning to learn, is a machine learning approach that utilizes prior learning experiences to expedite the learning process on unseen tasks. As a data-driven approach, meta-learning requires meta-features that represent the primary learning tasks or datasets, and are estimated traditonally as engineer…
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-graph is currently the most powerful tool for similarity search on heterogeneous information networks,where a meta-graph is a composition of meta-paths that captures the complex structural information. However, current relevance computing based on meta-graph only considers the complex structural information, but i…