Gradient descent scales well to large models, but becomes unstable over long time horizons. Gradient-free optimizers can scale to arbitrary timespans, but are hobbled by high dimensions.
We’ve developed a simple meta-learning algorithm called Reptile which works by repeatedly sampling a task, performing stochastic gradient descent on it, and updating the initial parameters towards the final parameters learned on that task. Reptile is the application of the Shortest Descent algorithm to the meta-learning setting, and is mathematically similar to first-order MAML (which is a version of the well-known MAML algorithm) that only needs black-box access to an optimizer such as SGD or Adam, with similar computational efficiency and performance.
arXiv:2409. 03682v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning new tasks by leveraging prior experience is a fundamental trait of intelligent systems.
By El Mahdi Chayti, Martin Jaggi
Learned optimization aims to improve upon hand-designed optimizers (e. g.
arXiv:2607. 06772v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learned optimization aims to improve upon hand-designed optimizers (e.
By Xiaolong Huang, Benjamin Th\'erien, James Harrison, Eugene Belilovsky