On first-order meta-learning algorithms
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arXiv:2607. 23925v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient descent scales well to large models, but becomes unstable over long time horizons.
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.
Pre-training has become a fundamental paradigm in modern machine learning, with one of its key empirical benefits being reduced downstream sample complexity as the scale of pre-training data increases. However, existing theoretical frameworks for pre-training do not fully explain this phenomenon.
arXiv:2606. 02008v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pre-training has become a fundamental paradigm in modern machine learning, with one of its key empirical benefits being reduced downstream sample complexity as the scale of pre-training data increases.