Advances and challenges in meta-learning: A technical review

A Vettoruzzo, MR Bouguelia… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Meta-learning empowers learning systems with the ability to acquire knowledge from
multiple tasks, enabling faster adaptation and generalization to new tasks. This review …

Meta-learning in neural networks: A survey

T Hospedales, A Antoniou, P Micaelli… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of meta-learning, or learning-to-learn, has seen a dramatic rise in interest in recent
years. Contrary to conventional approaches to AI where tasks are solved from scratch using …

Auto-sklearn 2.0: Hands-free automl via meta-learning

M Feurer, K Eggensperger, S Falkner… - Journal of Machine …, 2022 - jmlr.org
Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) supports practitioners and researchers with the
tedious task of designing machine learning pipelines and has recently achieved substantial …

Learning to optimize: A primer and a benchmark

T Chen, X Chen, W Chen, H Heaton, J Liu… - Journal of Machine …, 2022 - jmlr.org
Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging approach that leverages machine learning to
develop optimization methods, aiming at reducing the laborious iterations of hand …

General-purpose in-context learning by meta-learning transformers

L Kirsch, J Harrison, J Sohl-Dickstein, L Metz - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Modern machine learning requires system designers to specify aspects of the learning
pipeline, such as losses, architectures, and optimizers. Meta-learning, or learning-to-learn …

Velo: Training versatile learned optimizers by scaling up

L Metz, J Harrison, CD Freeman, A Merchant… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
While deep learning models have replaced hand-designed features across many domains,
these models are still trained with hand-designed optimizers. In this work, we leverage the …

Parameter prediction for unseen deep architectures

B Knyazev, M Drozdzal, GW Taylor… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Deep learning has been successful in automating the design of features in machine learning
pipelines. However, the algorithms optimizing neural network parameters remain largely …

Discovering attention-based genetic algorithms via meta-black-box optimization

R Lange, T Schaul, Y Chen, C Lu, T Zahavy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Genetic algorithms constitute a family of black-box optimization algorithms, which take
inspiration from the principles of biological evolution. While they provide a general-purpose …

Unbiased gradient estimation in unrolled computation graphs with persistent evolution strategies

P Vicol, L Metz, J Sohl-Dickstein - … Conference on Machine …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Unrolled computation graphs arise in many scenarios, including training RNNs, tuning
hyperparameters through unrolled optimization, and training learned optimizers. Current …

Meta learning backpropagation and improving it

L Kirsch, J Schmidhuber - Advances in Neural Information …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Many concepts have been proposed for meta learning with neural networks (NNs), eg, NNs
that learn to reprogram fast weights, Hebbian plasticity, learned learning rules, and meta …