The field of meta-learning, or learning-to-learn, has seen a dramatic rise in interest in recent years. Contrary to conventional approaches to AI where a given task is solved from scratch using a fixed learning algorithm, meta-learning aims to improve the learning algorithm itself, given the experience of multiple learning episodes. This paradigm provides an opportunity to tackle many of the conventional challenges of deep learning, including data and computation bottlenecks, as well as the fundamental issue of generalization. In this survey we describe the contemporary meta-learning landscape. We first discuss definitions of meta-learning and position it with respect to related fields, such as transfer learning, multi-task learning, and hyperparameter optimization. We then propose a new taxonomy that provides a more comprehensive breakdown of the space of meta-learning methods today. We survey promising applications and successes of meta-learning including few-shot learning, reinforcement learning and architecture search. Finally, we discuss outstanding challenges and promising areas for future research.

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In today's Digital era, capability building and knowledge retention in an organization has changed. Among the wider demographic as well, people have varied ways of learning. Some prefer reading, others watching videos and yet others who prefer audio based podcasts etc. What is the best way to target this wide audience of keen learners and personalize the experience to make e-learning easily accessible and much more immersive and interesting? In this session about applying AI/ML to learning, we will look at how to tackle this problem and take learning into the next generation.

Deep learning continues to be the hottest thing in data science. Deep learning frameworks are changing rapidly. Just five years ago, none of the leaders other than Theano were even around. I wanted to find evidence for which frameworks merit attention, so I developed this power ranking. I used 11 data sources across 7 distinct categories to gauge framework usage, interest, and popularity.

To train neural networks faster, many research efforts have been devoted to exploring a better gradient descent trajectory, but few have been put into exploiting the intermediate results. In this work we propose a novel optimization method named (momentum) stochastic gradient descent with residuals (RSGD(m)) to exploit the gradient descent trajectory using proper residual schemes, which leads to a performance boost of both the convergence and generalization. We provide theoretic analysis to show that RSGD can achieve a smaller growth rate of the generalization error and the same convergence rate compared with SGD. Extensive deep learning experimental results of the image classification and word-level language model empirically show that both the convergence and generalization of our RSGD(m) method are improved significantly compared with the existing SGD(m) algorithm.

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A conversation I had with one of my teachers in ninth grade still comes back to me occasionally. We were discussing how to interact with people, and how to do so without coming off as an arrogant asshole. This was certainly an issue that warranted discussing. She knew I liked programming, and suggested approaching it as a problem that needed solving. At some point, she suggested the business jargon of "solutions", having heard that from somebody in the tech industry.

Few-shot classification is a challenging task which aims to formulate the ability of humans to learn concepts from limited prior data and has drawn considerable attention in machine learning. Recent progress in few-shot classification has featured meta-learning, in which a parameterized model for a learning algorithm is defined and trained to learn the ability of handling classification tasks on extremely large or infinite episodes representing different classification task, each with a small labeled support set and its corresponding query set. In this work, we advance this few-shot classification paradigm by formulating it as a supervised classification learning problem. We further propose multi-episode and cross-way training techniques, which respectively correspond to the minibatch and pretraining in classification problems. Experimental results on a state-of-the-art few-shot classification method (prototypical networks) demonstrate that both the proposed training strategies can highly accelerate the training process without accuracy loss for varying few-shot classification problems on Omniglot and miniImageNet.