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Sharing Knowledge for Meta-learning with Feature Descriptions
Tomoharu Iwata · Atsutoshi Kumagai

Wed Nov 30 02:00 PM -- 04:00 PM (PST) @ Hall J #913

Language is an important tool for humans to share knowledge. We propose a meta-learning method that shares knowledge across supervised learning tasks using feature descriptions written in natural language, which have not been used in the existing meta-learning methods. The proposed method improves the predictive performance on unseen tasks with a limited number of labeled data by meta-learning from various tasks. With the feature descriptions, we can find relationships across tasks even when their feature spaces are different. The feature descriptions are encoded using a language model pretrained with a large corpus, which enables us to incorporate human knowledge stored in the corpus into meta-learning. In our experiments, we demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better predictive performance than the existing meta-learning methods using a wide variety of real-world datasets provided by the statistical office of the EU and Japan.

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Tomoharu Iwata (NTT)
Atsutoshi Kumagai (NTT)

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