Poster
Fast Context Adaptation via Meta-Learning
Luisa Zintgraf · Kyriacos Shiarlis · Vitaly Kurin · Katja Hofmann · Shimon Whiteson
Pacific Ballroom #252
Keywords: [ Architectures ] [ Deep Reinforcement Learning ] [ Representation Learning ] [ Supervised Learning ] [ Transfer and Multitask Learning ]
We propose CAVIA for meta-learning, a simple extension to MAML that is less prone to meta-overfitting, easier to parallelise, and more interpretable. CAVIA partitions the model parameters into two parts: context parameters that serve as additional input to the model and are adapted on individual tasks, and shared parameters that are meta-trained and shared across tasks. At test time, only the context parameters are updated, leading to a low-dimensional task representation. We show empirically that CAVIA outperforms MAML for regression, classification, and reinforcement learning. Our experiments also highlight weaknesses in current benchmarks, in that the amount of adaptation needed in some cases is small.
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