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Conditional Meta-Learning of Linear Representations
Giulia Denevi · Massimiliano Pontil · Carlo Ciliberto

Wed Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @
in Lightning Talks 3B-1 »

Standard meta-learning for representation learning aims to find a common representation to be shared across multiple tasks. The effectiveness of these methods is often limited when the nuances of the tasks’ distribution cannot be captured by a single representation. In this work we overcome this issue by inferring a conditioning function, mapping the tasks’ side information (such as the tasks’ training dataset itself) into a representation tailored to the task at hand. We study environments in which our conditional strategy outperforms standard meta-learning, such as those in which tasks can be organized in separate clusters according to the representation they share. We then propose a meta-algorithm capable of leveraging this advantage in practice. In the unconditional setting, our method yields a new estimator enjoying faster learning rates and requiring less hyper-parameters to tune than current state-of-the-art methods. Our results are supported by preliminary experiments.

Keywords: Online Learning · linear representation learning · Statistical Learning Theory · Conditional Meta-Learning

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Giulia Denevi (Leonardo Labs)
Massimiliano Pontil (IIT & UCL)
Carlo Ciliberto (University College London)

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