Wormhole MAML: Meta-Learning in Glued Parameter Space

Autor: Chang, Chih-Jung Tracy, Gao, Yuan, Lou, Beicheng
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: In this paper, we introduce a novel variation of model-agnostic meta-learning, where an extra multiplicative parameter is introduced in the inner-loop adaptation. Our variation creates a shortcut in the parameter space for the inner-loop adaptation and increases model expressivity in a highly controllable manner. We show both theoretically and numerically that our variation alleviates the problem of conflicting gradients and improves training dynamics. We conduct experiments on 3 distinctive problems, including a toy classification problem for threshold comparison, a regression problem for wavelet transform, and a classification problem on MNIST. We also discuss ways to generalize our method to a broader class of problems.
Databáze: arXiv