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      what are the meta-learning approaches (methods)?
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      is there a good reference for meta-learning techniques?
      Please give a description in your answer.










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      are bagging, boosting, ... meta-learning techniques?
      is there a good reference for meta-learning techniques?
      Please give a description in your answer.







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          I'm familiar with two meanings of "meta-learning."




          1. Learning methods which allow a model to quickly adapt and fit new data. One example is MAML and related models.


          "Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks" by Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine




          We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification, regression, and reinforcement learning. The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can solve new learning tasks using only a small number of training samples. In our approach, the parameters of the model are explicitly trained such that a small number of gradient steps with a small amount of training data from a new task will produce good generalization performance on that task. In effect, our method trains the model to be easy to fine-tune. We demonstrate that this approach leads to state-of-the-art performance on two few-shot image classification benchmarks, produces good results on few-shot regression, and accelerates fine-tuning for policy gradient reinforcement learning with neural network policies.





          1. The second meaning of meta-learning is hyper-parameter tuning, such as using LIPO or Bayesian optimization to find the best parameters of a machine learning model (neural network, SVM, boosted tree ensemble). I don't have a reference at hand for this usage, since I've only seen it used this way on internet fora (comments on stats.SE posts, or threads in r/MachineLearning).


          I'm not familiar with a usage of "meta-learning" which includes bagging and boosting as examples. Bagging and boosting are typically used with ensemble methods (such as random forest or boosted trees).






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            I'm familiar with two meanings of "meta-learning."




            1. Learning methods which allow a model to quickly adapt and fit new data. One example is MAML and related models.


            "Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks" by Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine




            We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification, regression, and reinforcement learning. The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can solve new learning tasks using only a small number of training samples. In our approach, the parameters of the model are explicitly trained such that a small number of gradient steps with a small amount of training data from a new task will produce good generalization performance on that task. In effect, our method trains the model to be easy to fine-tune. We demonstrate that this approach leads to state-of-the-art performance on two few-shot image classification benchmarks, produces good results on few-shot regression, and accelerates fine-tuning for policy gradient reinforcement learning with neural network policies.





            1. The second meaning of meta-learning is hyper-parameter tuning, such as using LIPO or Bayesian optimization to find the best parameters of a machine learning model (neural network, SVM, boosted tree ensemble). I don't have a reference at hand for this usage, since I've only seen it used this way on internet fora (comments on stats.SE posts, or threads in r/MachineLearning).


            I'm not familiar with a usage of "meta-learning" which includes bagging and boosting as examples. Bagging and boosting are typically used with ensemble methods (such as random forest or boosted trees).






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              I'm familiar with two meanings of "meta-learning."




              1. Learning methods which allow a model to quickly adapt and fit new data. One example is MAML and related models.


              "Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks" by Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine




              We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification, regression, and reinforcement learning. The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can solve new learning tasks using only a small number of training samples. In our approach, the parameters of the model are explicitly trained such that a small number of gradient steps with a small amount of training data from a new task will produce good generalization performance on that task. In effect, our method trains the model to be easy to fine-tune. We demonstrate that this approach leads to state-of-the-art performance on two few-shot image classification benchmarks, produces good results on few-shot regression, and accelerates fine-tuning for policy gradient reinforcement learning with neural network policies.





              1. The second meaning of meta-learning is hyper-parameter tuning, such as using LIPO or Bayesian optimization to find the best parameters of a machine learning model (neural network, SVM, boosted tree ensemble). I don't have a reference at hand for this usage, since I've only seen it used this way on internet fora (comments on stats.SE posts, or threads in r/MachineLearning).


              I'm not familiar with a usage of "meta-learning" which includes bagging and boosting as examples. Bagging and boosting are typically used with ensemble methods (such as random forest or boosted trees).






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                I'm familiar with two meanings of "meta-learning."




                1. Learning methods which allow a model to quickly adapt and fit new data. One example is MAML and related models.


                "Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks" by Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine




                We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification, regression, and reinforcement learning. The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can solve new learning tasks using only a small number of training samples. In our approach, the parameters of the model are explicitly trained such that a small number of gradient steps with a small amount of training data from a new task will produce good generalization performance on that task. In effect, our method trains the model to be easy to fine-tune. We demonstrate that this approach leads to state-of-the-art performance on two few-shot image classification benchmarks, produces good results on few-shot regression, and accelerates fine-tuning for policy gradient reinforcement learning with neural network policies.





                1. The second meaning of meta-learning is hyper-parameter tuning, such as using LIPO or Bayesian optimization to find the best parameters of a machine learning model (neural network, SVM, boosted tree ensemble). I don't have a reference at hand for this usage, since I've only seen it used this way on internet fora (comments on stats.SE posts, or threads in r/MachineLearning).


                I'm not familiar with a usage of "meta-learning" which includes bagging and boosting as examples. Bagging and boosting are typically used with ensemble methods (such as random forest or boosted trees).






                share|cite|improve this answer














                I'm familiar with two meanings of "meta-learning."




                1. Learning methods which allow a model to quickly adapt and fit new data. One example is MAML and related models.


                "Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks" by Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine




                We propose an algorithm for meta-learning that is model-agnostic, in the sense that it is compatible with any model trained with gradient descent and applicable to a variety of different learning problems, including classification, regression, and reinforcement learning. The goal of meta-learning is to train a model on a variety of learning tasks, such that it can solve new learning tasks using only a small number of training samples. In our approach, the parameters of the model are explicitly trained such that a small number of gradient steps with a small amount of training data from a new task will produce good generalization performance on that task. In effect, our method trains the model to be easy to fine-tune. We demonstrate that this approach leads to state-of-the-art performance on two few-shot image classification benchmarks, produces good results on few-shot regression, and accelerates fine-tuning for policy gradient reinforcement learning with neural network policies.





                1. The second meaning of meta-learning is hyper-parameter tuning, such as using LIPO or Bayesian optimization to find the best parameters of a machine learning model (neural network, SVM, boosted tree ensemble). I don't have a reference at hand for this usage, since I've only seen it used this way on internet fora (comments on stats.SE posts, or threads in r/MachineLearning).


                I'm not familiar with a usage of "meta-learning" which includes bagging and boosting as examples. Bagging and boosting are typically used with ensemble methods (such as random forest or boosted trees).







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