Decoder Choice Network for Metalearning

Liu, Jialin

doi:10.1109/TCYB.2021.3123403

Decoder Choice Network for Metalearning

2023-06-01

2

OA

AI

DOI：10.1109/TCYB.2021.3123403

Original

Original request for help

Save

Abstract

En 中文

Metalearning has been widely applied for implementing few-shot learning and fast model adaptation. Particularly, existing metalearning methods have been exploited to learn the control mechanism for gradient descent processes, in an effort to facilitate gradient-based learning in gaining high speed and generalization ability. This article presents a novel method that controls the gradient descent process of the model parameters in a neural network, by limiting the model parameters within a low-dimensional latent space. The main challenge for implementing this idea is that a decoder with many parameters may be required. To tackle this problem, the article provides an alternative design of the decoder with a structure that shares certain weights, thereby reducing the number of required parameters. In addition, this work combines ensemble learning with the proposed approach to improve the overall learning performance. Systematic experimental studies demonstrate that the proposed approach offers results superior to the state of the art in performing the Omniglot classification and miniImageNet classification tasks.

Keywords:

Task analysis

Decoding

Training

Testing

Measurement

Optimization

Mathematical models

Decoder

ensemble learning

latent variable

metalearning

Decoder Choice Network for Metalearning

Abstract

Journal

Organization