Meta-Learning and Few-Shot Adaptation in Foundation Models
Chapter 1: Foundations of Meta-Learning Revisited
The Meta-Learning Problem Formulation
Taxonomy of Meta-Learning Approaches
Challenges in Applying Meta-Learning to Foundation Models
Evaluation Protocols for Few-Shot Learning
Chapter 2: Advanced Gradient-Based Meta-Learning
Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML)
First-Order MAML (FOMAML) and Reptile
Implicit MAML (iMAML)
Addressing Stability and Gradient Variance
Scalability Considerations for Foundation Models
Hands-on Practical: Implementing FOMAML for Model Adaptation
Chapter 3: Advanced Metric-Based Meta-Learning
Prototypical Networks Revisited
Relation Networks for Few-Shot Learning
Matching Networks with Attention
Deep Metric Learning Techniques
Adapting Metric Learning for High-Dimensional Embeddings
Practice: Implementing Prototypical Networks with Foundation Model Embeddings
Chapter 4: Optimization Perspectives on Meta-Learning
Meta-Learning as Bilevel Optimization
Algorithms for Solving Bilevel Problems
Connections to Hyperparameter Optimization
Meta-Learning Initialization Strategies
Theoretical Convergence Analysis
Chapter 5: Few-Shot Adaptation Strategies for Foundation Models
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) Overview
Adapter Modules for Foundation Models
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)
Prompt Tuning and Prefix Tuning
Comparing PEFT and Meta-Learning Approaches
Hybrid Adaptation Strategies
Hands-on Practical: Adapting a Foundation Model using LoRA
Chapter 6: Scaling Meta-Learning Implementations
Computational Challenges of Meta-Gradients
Memory Optimization Techniques
Distributed Meta-Learning Strategies
Efficient Task Sampling and Batching
Approximation Methods for Scalability
Benchmarking Scalable Implementations
Chapter 7: Advanced Topics and Theoretical Considerations
Bayesian Meta-Learning Approaches
Continual Meta-Learning
Meta-Learning for Reinforcement Learning
Generalization Bounds in Meta-Learning
Information Theoretic Perspectives
Open Problems and Research Directions
Benchmarking Scalable Implementations
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- Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks, Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel, and Sergey Levine, 2017 Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, Vol. 70 (PMLR) DOI: 10.5591/978-1-57766-810-3 - A foundational paper introducing MAML, which is a core meta-learning algorithm. It helps understand adaptation performance and computational aspects.
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Mann, Nick Ryder, Melanie Subbiah, Jared Kaplan, Prafulla Dhariwal, Arvind Neelakantan, Pranav Shyam, Girish Sastry, Amanda Askell, Sandhini Agarwal, Ariel Herbert-Voss, Gretchen Krueger, Tom Henighan, Rewon Child, Anna Ramesh, Daniel M. Ziegler, Jeff Wu, Clemens Winter, Christopher Hesse, Mark Chen, Eric Sigler, Mateusz Litwin, Scott Gray, Benjamin Chess, Jack Clark, Christopher Berner, Sam McCandlish, Alec Radford, Ilya Sutskever, and Dario Amodei, 2020 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vol. 33 (Curran Associates, Inc.) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2005.14165 - Presents GPT-3, a large foundation model, discussing its few-shot learning abilities and evaluation at scale. Provides context for benchmarking foundation models.
- LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models, Edward J. Hu, Yelong Shen, Phillip Wallis, Zeyuan Allen-Zhu, Yuanzhi Li, Shean Wang, Lu Wang, and Weizhu Chen, 2022 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2106.09685 - Introduces LoRA, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) method, which is a key baseline for efficiency comparisons in scalable implementations.
- Measuring and Improving Reproducibility in Deep Reinforcement Learning, Lena von Kügelgen, David W. Zhang, Andrew L. Maas, Daniel S. Takeshita, Moritz Knoth, Alex Hernandez-Garcia, Stefan Preuss, and Alexia J. Zou, 2020 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1909.06830 - Discusses the importance of reproducibility and robust experimental design in deep learning, offering insights for setting up reliable benchmarking experiments.