Meta Learning
Meta-learning, or "learning to learn," focuses on developing algorithms that can efficiently adapt to new tasks with limited data by leveraging prior experience from related tasks. Current research emphasizes improving the robustness and efficiency of meta-learning algorithms, particularly in low-resource settings, often employing model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) and its variants, along with techniques like dynamic head networks and reinforcement learning for task selection. This field is significant because it addresses the limitations of traditional machine learning in data-scarce scenarios, with applications ranging from speech and image recognition to robotics and personalized medicine.
Papers
Understanding Transfer Learning and Gradient-Based Meta-Learning Techniques
Mike Huisman, Aske Plaat, Jan N. van Rijn
Early Warning Prediction with Automatic Labeling in Epilepsy Patients
Peng Zhang, Ting Gao, Jin Guo, Jinqiao Duan, Sergey Nikolenko
Making Scalable Meta Learning Practical
Sang Keun Choe, Sanket Vaibhav Mehta, Hwijeen Ahn, Willie Neiswanger, Pengtao Xie, Emma Strubell, Eric Xing