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Previous works on meta-learning either relied on elaborately hand-designed network structures or adopted specialized learning rules to a particular domain. We propose a universal framework to optimize the meta-learning process automatically by adopting neural architecture search technique (NAS). NAS automatically generates and evaluates meta-learner’s architecture for few-shot learning problems, while the meta-learner uses meta-learning algorithm to optimize its parameters based on the distribution of learning tasks. Parameter sharing and experience replay are adopted to accelerate the architectures searching process, so it takes only 1-2 GPU days to find good architectures. Extensive experiments on Mini-ImageNet and Omniglot show that our algorithm excels in few-shot learning tasks. The best architecture found on Mini-ImageNet achieves competitive results when transferred to Omniglot, which shows the high transferability of architectures among different computer vision problems.
X. Zheng and P. Wang—These authors contributed equally to this work
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Zheng, X., Wang, P., Wang, Q., Shi, Z., Xu, F. (2019). Efficient Automatic Meta Optimization Search for Few-Shot Learning. In: Lin, Z., et al. Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision. PRCV 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11859. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31726-3_19
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