Summary of Rethinking Meta-learning From a Learning Lens, by Jingyao Wang et al.
Rethinking Meta-Learning from a Learning Lens
by Jingyao Wang, Wenwen Qiang, Chuxiong Sun, Changwen Zheng, Jiangmeng Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the limitations of mainstream meta-learning methods that focus on training a well-generalized model initialization for solving new tasks. The authors identify two major issues: overfitting on the training tasks and underfitting, which can be addressed by proposing Task Relation Learner (TRLearner), a plug-and-play method that leverages task relations to calibrate the optimization process of meta-learning. TRLearner first extracts task-specific metadata to obtain task relation matrices, then uses these matrices with relation-aware consistency regularization to guide optimization. The proposed method is theoretically and empirically analyzed to demonstrate its effectiveness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Meta-learning helps machines learn from previous tasks to solve new ones. A common problem is when the model becomes too good at the training tasks but bad at solving new ones. Researchers have tried to fix this by adding more data or changing how they do things, but it hasn’t worked well. This paper looks at why this happens and proposes a new way to make it better called Task Relation Learner (TRLearner). TRLearner uses information about the tasks themselves to help the model learn from experience and adapt to new situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Meta learning » Optimization » Overfitting » Regularization » Underfitting
