‘meta-learning’ directory
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- “Meta-Statistical Learning: Supervised Learning of Statistical Inference”, Peyrard & Cho 2025
- “Competitive Programming With Large Reasoning Models”, El-Kishky et al 2025
- “Introducing Deep Research: An Agent That Uses Reasoning to Synthesize Large Amounts of Online Information and Complete Multi-Step Research Tasks for You. Available to Pro Users Today, Plus and Team Next”, OpenAI 2025
- “Where Does In-Context Learning Happen in Large Language Models?”, Sia et al 2025
- “Metadata Conditioning Accelerates Language Model Pre-Training”, Gao et al 2025
- “Titans: Learning to Memorize at Test Time”, Behrouz et al 2024
- “ICLR: In-Context Learning of Representations”, Park et al 2024
- “Improving Factuality With Explicit Working Memory”, Chen et al 2024
- “Continuous Autoregressive Models With Noise Augmentation Avoid Error Accumulation”, Pasini et al 2024
- “State-Space Models Can Learn In-Context by Gradient Descent”, Sushma et al 2024
- “Thinking LLMs: General Instruction Following With Thought Generation”, Wu et al 2024
- “MLE-Bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering”, Chan et al 2024
- “Contextual Document Embeddings”, Morris & Rush 2024
- “Generating Diverse and Reliable Features for Few-Shot Learning”, Xu 2024b
- “When Parts Are Greater Than Sums: Individual LLM Components Can Outperform Full Models”, Chang et al 2024
- “Probing the Decision Boundaries of In-Context Learning in Large Language Models”, Zhao et al 2024
- “Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models”, Denison et al 2024
- “Discovering Preference Optimization Algorithms With and for Large Language Models”, Lu et al 2024
- “State Soup: In-Context Skill Learning, Retrieval and Mixing”, Pióro et al 2024
- “Attention As a Hypernetwork”, Schug et al 2024
- “BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners”, Samuel 2024
- “To Believe or Not to Believe Your LLM”, Yadkori et al 2024
- “Learning to Grok: Emergence of In-Context Learning and Skill Composition in Modular Arithmetic Tasks”, He et al 2024
- “Auto Evol-Instruct: Automatic Instruction Evolving for Large Language Models”, Zeng et al 2024
- “A Theoretical Understanding of Self-Correction through In-Context Alignment”, Wang et al 2024
- “MLPs Learn In-Context”, Tong & Pehlevan 2024
- “Zero-Shot Tokenizer Transfer”, Minixhofer et al 2024
- “What Exactly Has TabPFN Learned to Do?”, McCarter 2024
- “Position: Understanding LLMs Requires More Than Statistical Generalization”, Reizinger et al 2024
- “SOPHON: Non-Fine-Tunable Learning to Restrain Task Transferability For Pre-Trained Models”, Deng et al 2024
- “Many-Shot In-Context Learning”, Agarwal et al 2024
- “Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models”, Anwar et al 2024
- “Revisiting the Equivalence of In-Context Learning and Gradient Descent: The Impact of Data Distribution”, Mahdavi et al 2024
- “Best Practices and Lessons Learned on Synthetic Data for Language Models”, Liu et al 2024
- “From Words to Numbers: Your Large Language Model Is Secretly A Capable Regressor When Given In-Context Examples”, Vacareanu et al 2024
- “Mixture-Of-Depths: Dynamically Allocating Compute in Transformer-Based Language Models”, Raposo et al 2024
- “Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes”, Akiba et al 2024
- “How Well Can Transformers Emulate In-Context Newton’s Method?”, Giannou et al 2024
- “Revisiting Dynamic Evaluation: Online Adaptation for Large Language Models”, Rannen-Triki et al 2024
- “Neural Network Parameter Diffusion”, Wang et al 2024
- “The Matrix: A Bayesian Learning Model for LLMs”, Dalal & Misra 2024
- “Rephrasing the Web (WARP): A Recipe for Compute and Data-Efficient Language Modeling”, Maini et al 2024
- “An Information-Theoretic Analysis of In-Context Learning”, Jeon et al 2024
- “Deep De Finetti: Recovering Topic Distributions from Large Language Models”, Zhang et al 2023
- “Generative Multimodal Models Are In-Context Learners”, Sun et al 2023
- “VILA: On Pre-Training for Visual Language Models”, Lin et al 2023
- “Evolving Reservoirs for Meta Reinforcement Learning”, Léger et al 2023
- “The Unlocking Spell on Base LLMs: Rethinking Alignment via In-Context Learning”, Lin et al 2023
- “Learning Few-Shot Imitation As Cultural Transmission”, Bhoopchand et al 2023
- “In-Context Vectors: Making In Context Learning More Effective and Controllable Through Latent Space Steering”, Liu et al 2023
- “Rephrase and Respond: Let Large Language Models Ask Better Questions for Themselves”, Deng et al 2023
- “ProSG: Using Prompt Synthetic Gradients to Alleviate Prompt Forgetting of RNN-Like Language Models”, Luo et al 2023
- “Self-AIXI: Self-Predictive Universal AI”, Catt et al 2023
- “HyperFields: Towards Zero-Shot Generation of NeRFs from Text”, Babu et al 2023
- “Transformers Learn Higher-Order Optimization Methods for In-Context Learning: A Study With Linear Models”, Fu et al 2023
- “Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models”, Ma et al 2023
- “How Many Pretraining Tasks Are Needed for In-Context Learning of Linear Regression?”, Wu et al 2023
- “Motif: Intrinsic Motivation from Artificial Intelligence Feedback”, Klissarov et al 2023
- “ExpeL: LLM Agents Are Experiential Learners”, Zhao et al 2023
- “Diversifying AI: Towards Creative Chess With AlphaZero (AZdb)”, Zahavy et al 2023
- “RAVEN: In-Context Learning With Retrieval-Augmented Encoder-Decoder Language Models”, Huang et al 2023
- “CausalLM Is Not Optimal for In-Context Learning”, Ding et al 2023
- “MetaDiff: Meta-Learning With Conditional Diffusion for Few-Shot Learning”, Zhang & Yu 2023
- “Self Expanding Neural Networks”, Mitchell et al 2023
- “Teaching Arithmetic to Small Transformers”, Lee et al 2023
- “One Step of Gradient Descent Is Provably the Optimal In-Context Learner With One Layer of Linear Self-Attention”, Mahankali et al 2023
- “Trainable Transformer in Transformer”, Panigrahi et al 2023
- “Supervised Pretraining Can Learn In-Context Reinforcement Learning”, Lee et al 2023
- “Pretraining Task Diversity and the Emergence of Non-Bayesian In-Context Learning for Regression”, Raventós et al 2023
- “Language Models Are Weak Learners”, Manikandan et al 2023
- “Minigrid & Miniworld: Modular & Customizable Reinforcement Learning Environments for Goal-Oriented Tasks”, Chevalier-Boisvert et al 2023
- “Improving Long-Horizon Imitation Through Instruction Prediction”, Hejna et al 2023
- “Schema-Learning and Rebinding As Mechanisms of In-Context Learning and Emergence”, Swaminathan et al 2023
- “RGD: Stochastic Re-Weighted Gradient Descent via Distributionally Robust Optimization”, Kumar et al 2023
- “Transformers Learn to Implement Preconditioned Gradient Descent for In-Context Learning”, Ahn et al 2023
- “Learning Transformer Programs”, Friedman et al 2023
- “Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in Large Language Models”, Wolf et al 2023
- “How Well Do Large Language Models Perform in Arithmetic Tasks?”, Yuan et al 2023
- “Larger Language Models Do In-Context Learning Differently”, Wei et al 2023
- “BiLD: Big Little Transformer Decoder”, Kim et al 2023
- “Hard Prompts Made Easy: Gradient-Based Discrete Optimization for Prompt Tuning and Discovery”, Wen et al 2023
- “Looped Transformers As Programmable Computers”, Giannou et al 2023
- “A Survey of Meta-Reinforcement Learning”, Beck et al 2023
- “Human-Like Systematic Generalization through a Meta-Learning Neural Network”, Lake & Baroni 2023
- “Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Secretly Perform Gradient Descent As Meta-Optimizers”, Dai et al 2022
- “Unnatural Instructions: Tuning Language Models With (Almost) No Human Labor”, Honovich et al 2022
- “Rethinking the Role of Scale for In-Context Learning: An Interpretability-Based Case Study at 66 Billion Scale”, Bansal et al 2022
- “Transformers Learn In-Context by Gradient Descent”, Oswald et al 2022
- “FWL: Meta-Learning Fast Weight Language Models”, Clark et al 2022
- “What Learning Algorithm Is In-Context Learning? Investigations With Linear Models”, Akyürek et al 2022
- “Self-Destructing Models: Increasing the Costs of Harmful Dual Uses of Foundation Models”, Henderson et al 2022
- “VeLO: Training Versatile Learned Optimizers by Scaling Up”, Metz et al 2022
- “Mysteries of Mode Collapse § Inescapable Wedding Parties”, Janus 2022
- “BLOOMZ/mT0: Crosslingual Generalization through Multitask Finetuning”, Muennighoff et al 2022
- “ProMoT: Preserving In-Context Learning Ability in Large Language Model Fine-Tuning”, Wang et al 2022
- “In-Context Reinforcement Learning With Algorithm Distillation”, Laskin et al 2022
- “SAP: Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-Shot Learners”, Patel et al 2022
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g.pt: Learning to Learn With Generative Models of Neural Network Checkpoints”, Peebles et al 2022 - “AlexaTM 20B: Few-Shot Learning Using a Large-Scale Multilingual Seq2Seq Model”, Soltan et al 2022
- “Few-Shot Adaptation Works With UnpredicTable Data”, Chan et al 2022
- “What Can Transformers Learn In-Context? A Case Study of Simple Function Classes”, Garg et al 2022
- “Transformer Neural Processes: Uncertainty-Aware Meta Learning Via Sequence Modeling”, Nguyen & Grover 2022
- “TabPFN: Meta-Learning a Real-Time Tabular AutoML Method For Small Data”, Hollmann et al 2022
- “Offline RL Policies Should Be Trained to Be Adaptive”, Ghosh et al 2022
- “Goal-Conditioned Generators of Deep Policies”, Faccio et al 2022
- “Prompting Decision Transformer for Few-Shot Policy Generalization”, Xu et al 2022
- “LIFT: Language-Interfaced Fine-Tuning for Non-Language Machine Learning Tasks”, Dinh et al 2022
- “RHO-LOSS: Prioritized Training on Points That Are Learnable, Worth Learning, and Not Yet Learnt”, Mindermann et al 2022
- “NOAH: Neural Prompt Search”, Zhang et al 2022
- “Bongard-HOI: Benchmarking Few-Shot Visual Reasoning for Human-Object Interactions”, Jiang et al 2022
- “Towards Learning Universal Hyperparameter Optimizers With Transformers”, Chen et al 2022
- “Instruction Induction: From Few Examples to Natural Language Task Descriptions”, Honovich et al 2022
- “Gato: A Generalist Agent”, Reed et al 2022
- “UL2: Unifying Language Learning Paradigms”, Tay et al 2022
- “Data Distributional Properties Drive Emergent Few-Shot Learning in Transformers”, Chan et al 2022
- “Tk-Instruct: Benchmarking Generalization via In-Context Instructions on 1,600+ Language Tasks”, Wang et al 2022
- “What Language Model Architecture and Pretraining Objective Work Best for Zero-Shot Generalization?”, Wang et al 2022
- “Effective Mutation Rate Adaptation through Group Elite Selection”, Kumar et al 2022
- “Searching for Efficient Neural Architectures for On-Device ML on Edge TPUs”, Akin et al 2022
- “Can Language Models Learn from Explanations in Context?”, Lampinen et al 2022
- “Auto-Lambda: Disentangling Dynamic Task Relationships”, Liu et al 2022
- “In-Context Learning and Induction Heads”, Olsson et al 2022
- “HyperMixer: An MLP-Based Low Cost Alternative to Transformers”, Mai et al 2022
- “LiteTransformerSearch: Training-Free Neural Architecture Search for Efficient Language Models”, Javaheripi et al 2022
- “Evolving Curricula With Regret-Based Environment Design”, Parker-Holder et al 2022
- “HyperPrompt: Prompt-Based Task-Conditioning of Transformers”, He et al 2022
- “Rethinking the Role of Demonstrations: What Makes In-Context Learning Work?”, Min et al 2022
- “All You Need Is Supervised Learning: From Imitation Learning to Meta-RL With Upside Down RL”, Arulkumaran et al 2022
- “NeuPL: Neural Population Learning”, Liu et al 2022
- “Learning Synthetic Environments and Reward Networks for Reinforcement Learning”, Ferreira et al 2022
- “Datamodels: Predicting Predictions from Training Data”, Ilyas et al 2022
- “From Data to Functa: Your Data Point Is a Function and You Should Treat It like One”, Dupont et al 2022
- “Environment Generation for Zero-Shot Compositional Reinforcement Learning”, Gur et al 2022
- “Active Predictive Coding Networks: A Neural Solution to the Problem of Learning Reference Frames and Part-Whole Hierarchies”, Gklezakos & Rao 2022
- “Learning Robust Perceptive Locomotion for Quadrupedal Robots in the Wild”, Miki et al 2022
- “Automated Reinforcement Learning (AutoRL): A Survey and Open Problems”, Parker-Holder et al 2022
- “In Defense of the Unitary Scalarization for Deep Multi-Task Learning”, Kurin et al 2022
- “HyperTransformer: Model Generation for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning”, Zhmoginov et al 2022
- “Finding General Equilibria in Many-Agent Economic Simulations Using Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Curry et al 2022
- “The Curse of Zero Task Diversity: On the Failure of Transfer Learning to Outperform MAML and Their Empirical Equivalence”, Miranda et al 2021
- “A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits”, Elhage et al 2021
- “PFNs: Transformers Can Do Bayesian Inference”, Müller et al 2021
- “How to Learn and Represent Abstractions: An Investigation Using Symbolic Alchemy”, AlKhamissi et al 2021
- “Noether Networks: Meta-Learning Useful Conserved Quantities”, Alet et al 2021
- “A Rational Reinterpretation of Dual-Process Theories”, Milli et al 2021
- “A General Language Assistant As a Laboratory for Alignment”, Askell et al 2021
- “A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself”, Irie et al 2021
- “A Survey of Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Kirk et al 2021
- “Gradients Are Not All You Need”, Metz et al 2021
- “An Explanation of In-Context Learning As Implicit Bayesian Inference”, Xie et al 2021
- “Procedural Generalization by Planning With Self-Supervised World Models”, Anand et al 2021
- “MetaICL: Learning to Learn In Context”, Min et al 2021
- “Logical Activation Functions: Logit-Space Equivalents of Probabilistic Boolean Operators”, Lowe et al 2021
- “Shaking the Foundations: Delusions in Sequence Models for Interaction and Control”, Ortega et al 2021
- “Meta-Learning, Social Cognition and Consciousness in Brains and Machines”, Langdon et al 2021
- “T0: Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization”, Sanh et al 2021
- “Replay-Guided Adversarial Environment Design”, Jiang et al 2021
- “Embodied Intelligence via Learning and Evolution”, Gupta et al 2021
- “Transformers Are Meta-Reinforcement Learners”, Anonymous 2021
- “Scalable Online Planning via Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning”, Fickinger et al 2021
- “Dropout’s Dream Land: Generalization from Learned Simulators to Reality”, Wellmer & Kwok 2021
- “Is Curiosity All You Need? On the Utility of Emergent Behaviors from Curious Exploration”, Groth et al 2021
- “Bootstrapped Meta-Learning”, Flennerhag et al 2021
- “The Sensory Neuron As a Transformer: Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning”, Tang & Ha 2021
- “FLAN: Finetuned Language Models Are Zero-Shot Learners”, Wei et al 2021
- “The AI Economist: Optimal Economic Policy Design via Two-Level Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Zheng et al 2021
- “Open-Ended Learning Leads to Generally Capable Agents”, Team et al 2021
- “Dataset Distillation With Infinitely Wide Convolutional Networks”, Nguyen et al 2021
- “Why Generalization in RL Is Difficult: Epistemic POMDPs and Implicit Partial Observability”, Ghosh et al 2021
- “PonderNet: Learning to Ponder”, Banino et al 2021
- “Multimodal Few-Shot Learning With Frozen Language Models”, Tsimpoukelli et al 2021
- “LHOPT: A Generalizable Approach to Learning Optimizers”, Almeida et al 2021
- “Towards Mental Time Travel: a Hierarchical Memory for Reinforcement Learning Agents”, Lampinen et al 2021
- “A Full-Stack Accelerator Search Technique for Vision Applications”, Zhang et al 2021
- “Reward Is Enough”, Silver et al 2021
- “Bayesian Optimization Is Superior to Random Search for Machine Learning Hyperparameter Tuning: Analysis of the Black-Box Optimization Challenge 2020”, Turner et al 2021
- “CrossFit: A Few-Shot Learning Challenge for Cross-Task Generalization in NLP”, Ye et al 2021
- “Podracer Architectures for Scalable Reinforcement Learning”, Hessel et al 2021
- “BLUR: Meta-Learning Bidirectional Update Rules”, Sandler et al 2021
- “Asymmetric Self-Play for Automatic Goal Discovery in Robotic Manipulation”, OpenAI et al 2021
- “OmniNet: Omnidirectional Representations from Transformers”, Tay et al 2021
- “Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers”, Schlag et al 2021
- “Prompt Programming for Large Language Models: Beyond the Few-Shot Paradigm”, Reynolds & McDonell 2021
- “ES-ENAS: Blackbox Optimization over Hybrid Spaces via Combinatorial and Continuous Evolution”, Song et al 2021
- “Training Learned Optimizers With Randomly Initialized Learned Optimizers”, Metz et al 2021
- “Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms”, Co-Reyes et al 2021
- “Meta Pseudo Labels”, Pham et al 2021
- “Meta Learning Backpropagation And Improving It”, Kirsch & Schmidhuber 2020
- “Emergent Complexity and Zero-Shot Transfer via Unsupervised Environment Design”, Dennis et al 2020
- “Scaling down Deep Learning”, Greydanus 2020
- “Reverse Engineering Learned Optimizers Reveals Known and Novel Mechanisms”, Maheswaranathan et al 2020
- “Dataset Meta-Learning from Kernel Ridge-Regression”, Nguyen et al 2020
- “MELD: Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Images via Latent State Models”, Zhao et al 2020
- “Meta-Trained Agents Implement Bayes-Optimal Agents”, Mikulik et al 2020
- “Learning Not to Learn: Nature versus Nurture in Silico”, Lange & Sprekeler 2020
- “Prioritized Level Replay”, Jiang et al 2020
- “Tasks, Stability, Architecture, and Compute: Training More Effective Learned Optimizers, and Using Them to Train Themselves”, Metz et al 2020
- “Hidden Incentives for Auto-Induced Distributional Shift”, Krueger et al 2020
- “Grounded Language Learning Fast and Slow”, Hill et al 2020
- “Matt Botvinick on the Spontaneous Emergence of Learning Algorithms”, Scholl 2020
- “Discovering Reinforcement Learning Algorithms”, Oh et al 2020
- “Deep Reinforcement Learning and Its Neuroscientific Implications”, Botvinick 2020
- “Decentralized Reinforcement Learning: Global Decision-Making via Local Economic Transactions”, Chang et al 2020
- “Rapid Task-Solving in Novel Environments”, Ritter et al 2020
- “FBNetV3: Joint Architecture-Recipe Search Using Predictor Pretraining”, Dai et al 2020
- “GPT-3: Language Models Are Few-Shot Learners”, Brown et al 2020
- “Synthetic Petri Dish: A Novel Surrogate Model for Rapid Architecture Search”, Rawal et al 2020
- “Automatic Discovery of Interpretable Planning Strategies”, Skirzyński et al 2020
- “Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Industrial Insertion Tasks”, Schoettler et al 2020
- “A Comparison of Methods for Treatment Assignment With an Application to Playlist Generation”, Fernández-Loría et al 2020
- “Approximate Exploitability: Learning a Best Response in Large Games”, Timbers et al 2020
- “Meta-Learning in Neural Networks: A Survey”, Hospedales et al 2020
- “Agent57: Outperforming the Atari Human Benchmark”, Badia et al 2020
- “Designing Network Design Spaces”, Radosavovic et al 2020
- “Enhanced POET: Open-Ended Reinforcement Learning through Unbounded Invention of Learning Challenges and Their Solutions”, Wang et al 2020
- “Accelerating and Improving AlphaZero Using Population Based Training”, Wu et al 2020
- “Meta-Learning Curiosity Algorithms”, Alet et al 2020
- “AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch”, Real et al 2020
- “AutoML-Zero: Open Source Code for the Paper: "AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch"”, Real et al 2020
- “Effective Diversity in Population Based Reinforcement Learning”, Parker-Holder et al 2020
- “AI Helps Warehouse Robots Pick Up New Tricks: Backed by Machine Learning Luminaries, Covariant.ai’s Bots Can Handle Jobs Previously Needing a Human Touch”, Knight 2020
- “Smooth Markets: A Basic Mechanism for Organizing Gradient-Based Learners”, Balduzzi et al 2020
- “AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code That Learns”, Real & Liang 2020
- “Learning Neural Activations”, Minhas & Asif 2019
- “Meta-Learning without Memorization”, Yin et al 2019
- “MetaFun: Meta-Learning With Iterative Functional Updates”, Xu et al 2019
- “Leveraging Procedural Generation to Benchmark Reinforcement Learning”, Cobbe et al 2019
- “Procgen Benchmark: We’re Releasing Procgen Benchmark, 16 Simple-To-Use Procedurally-Generated Environments Which Provide a Direct Measure of How Quickly a Reinforcement Learning Agent Learns Generalizable Skills”, Cobbe et al 2019
- “Increasing Generality in Machine Learning through Procedural Content Generation”, Risi & Togelius 2019
- “SimpleShot: Revisiting Nearest-Neighbor Classification for Few-Shot Learning”, Wang et al 2019
- “Optimizing Millions of Hyperparameters by Implicit Differentiation”, Lorraine et al 2019
- “Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction”, Freeman et al 2019
- “Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction [Blog]”, Freeman et al 2019
- “Meta-World: A Benchmark and Evaluation for Multi-Task and Meta Reinforcement Learning”, Yu et al 2019
- “Solving Rubik’s Cube With a Robot Hand”, OpenAI et al 2019
- “Solving Rubik’s Cube With a Robot Hand [Blog]”, OpenAI 2019
- “Gradient Descent: The Ultimate Optimizer”, Chandra et al 2019
- “Data Valuation Using Reinforcement Learning”, Yoon et al 2019
- “Multiplicative Interactions and Where to Find Them”, Jayakumar et al 2019
- “ANIL: Rapid Learning or Feature Reuse? Towards Understanding the Effectiveness of MAML”, Raghu et al 2019
- “Emergent Tool Use From Multi-Agent Autocurricula”, Baker et al 2019
- “Meta-Learning With Implicit Gradients”, Rajeswaran et al 2019
- “A Critique of Pure Learning and What Artificial Neural Networks Can Learn from Animal Brains”, Zador 2019
- “AutoML: A Survey of the State-Of-The-Art”, He et al 2019
- “Metalearned Neural Memory”, Munkhdalai et al 2019
- “Algorithms for Hyper-Parameter Optimization”, Bergstra et al 2019
- “Evolving the Hearthstone Meta”, Silva et al 2019
- “Meta Reinforcement Learning”, Weng 2019
- “One Epoch Is All You Need”, Komatsuzaki 2019
- “Compositional Generalization through Meta Sequence-To-Sequence Learning”, Lake 2019
- “Risks from Learned Optimization in Advanced Machine Learning Systems”, Hubinger et al 2019
- “ICML 2019 Notes”, Abel 2019
- “SpArSe: Sparse Architecture Search for CNNs on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers”, Fedorov et al 2019
- “AI-GAs: AI-Generating Algorithms, an Alternate Paradigm for Producing General Artificial Intelligence”, Clune 2019
- “Alpha MAML: Adaptive Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning”, Behl et al 2019
- “Reinforcement Learning, Fast and Slow”, Botvinick et al 2019
- “Meta Reinforcement Learning As Task Inference”, Humplik et al 2019
- “Learning Loss for Active Learning”, Yoo & Kweon 2019
- “Meta-Learning of Sequential Strategies”, Ortega et al 2019
- “Searching for MobileNetV3”, Howard et al 2019
- “Meta-Learners’ Learning Dynamics Are unlike Learners’”, Rabinowitz 2019
- “Ray Interference: a Source of Plateaus in Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Schaul et al 2019
- “AlphaX: EXploring Neural Architectures With Deep Neural Networks and Monte Carlo Tree Search”, Wang et al 2019
- “Efficient Off-Policy Meta-Reinforcement Learning via Probabilistic Context Variables”, Rakelly et al 2019
- “Task2Vec: Task Embedding for Meta-Learning”, Achille et al 2019
- “The Omniglot Challenge: a 3-Year Progress Report”, Lake et al 2019
- “FIGR: Few-Shot Image Generation With Reptile”, Clouâtre & Demers 2019
- “Paired Open-Ended Trailblazer (POET): Endlessly Generating Increasingly Complex and Diverse Learning Environments and Their Solutions”, Wang et al 2019
- “Meta-Learning Neural Bloom Filters”, Rae 2019
- “Malthusian Reinforcement Learning”, Leibo et al 2018
- “Quantifying Generalization in Reinforcement Learning”, Cobbe et al 2018
- “An Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Francois-Lavet et al 2018
- “Meta-Learning: Learning to Learn Fast”, Weng 2018
- “Evolving Space-Time Neural Architectures for Videos”, Piergiovanni et al 2018
- “Understanding and Correcting Pathologies in the Training of Learned Optimizers”, Metz et al 2018
- “BabyAI: A Platform to Study the Sample Efficiency of Grounded Language Learning”, Chevalier-Boisvert et al 2018
- “Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Li 2018
- “Searching for Efficient Multi-Scale Architectures for Dense Image Prediction”, Chen et al 2018
- “Backprop Evolution”, Alber et al 2018
- “Learning Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation”, OpenAI et al 2018
- “LEO: Meta-Learning With Latent Embedding Optimization”, Rusu et al 2018
- “Automatically Composing Representation Transformations As a Means for Generalization”, Chang et al 2018
- “Human-Level Performance in First-Person Multiplayer Games With Population-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Jaderberg et al 2018
- “Guided Evolutionary Strategies: Augmenting Random Search With Surrogate Gradients”, Maheswaranathan et al 2018
- “RUDDER: Return Decomposition for Delayed Rewards”, Arjona-Medina et al 2018
- “Meta-Learning Transferable Active Learning Policies by Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Pang et al 2018
- “Fingerprint Policy Optimization for Robust Reinforcement Learning”, Paul et al 2018
- “AutoAugment: Learning Augmentation Policies from Data”, Cubuk et al 2018
- “Meta-Gradient Reinforcement Learning”, Xu et al 2018
- “Continuous Learning in a Hierarchical Multiscale Neural Network”, Wolf et al 2018
- “Prefrontal Cortex As a Meta-Reinforcement Learning System”, Wang et al 2018
- “Meta-Learning Update Rules for Unsupervised Representation Learning”, Metz et al 2018
- “Reviving and Improving Recurrent Back-Propagation”, Liao et al 2018
- “Kickstarting Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Schmitt et al 2018
- “Reptile: On First-Order Meta-Learning Algorithms”, Nichol et al 2018
- “Some Considerations on Learning to Explore via Meta-Reinforcement Learning”, Stadie et al 2018
- “One Big Net For Everything”, Schmidhuber 2018
- “Machine Theory of Mind”, Rabinowitz et al 2018
- “Evolved Policy Gradients”, Houthooft et al 2018
- “One-Shot Imitation from Observing Humans via Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning”, Yu et al 2018
- “Rover Descent: Learning to Optimize by Learning to Navigate on Prototypical Loss Surfaces”, Faury & Vasile 2018
- “ScreenerNet: Learning Self-Paced Curriculum for Deep Neural Networks”, Kim & Choi 2018
- “Population Based Training of Neural Networks”, Jaderberg et al 2017
- “BlockDrop: Dynamic Inference Paths in Residual Networks”, Wu et al 2017
- “Learning to Select Computations”, Callaway et al 2017
- “Learning to Generalize: Meta-Learning for Domain Generalization”, Li et al 2017
- “Efficient K-Shot Learning With Regularized Deep Networks”, Yoo et al 2017
- “Online Learning of a Memory for Learning Rates”, Meier et al 2017
- “One-Shot Visual Imitation Learning via Meta-Learning”, Finn et al 2017
- “Supervising Unsupervised Learning”, Garg & Kalai 2017
- “Learning With Opponent-Learning Awareness”, Foerster et al 2017
- “SMASH: One-Shot Model Architecture Search through HyperNetworks”, Brock et al 2017
- “Stochastic Optimization With Bandit Sampling”, Salehi et al 2017
- “A Simple Neural Attentive Meta-Learner”, Mishra et al 2017
- “Reinforcement Learning for Learning Rate Control”, Xu et al 2017
- “Metacontrol for Adaptive Imagination-Based Optimization”, Hamrick et al 2017
- “Deciding How to Decide: Dynamic Routing in Artificial Neural Networks”, McGill & Perona 2017
- “Prototypical Networks for Few-Shot Learning”, Snell et al 2017
- “Learned Optimizers That Scale and Generalize”, Wichrowska et al 2017
- “MAML: Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks”, Finn et al 2017
- “Learning to Optimize Neural Nets”, Li & Malik 2017
- “Understanding Synthetic Gradients and Decoupled Neural Interfaces”, Czarnecki et al 2017
- “Optimization As a Model for Few-Shot Learning”, Ravi & Larochelle 2017
- “Learning to Superoptimize Programs”, Bunel et al 2017
- “Discovering Objects and Their Relations from Entangled Scene Representations”, Raposo et al 2017
- “Google Vizier: A Service for Black-Box Optimization”, Golovin 2017
- “An Actor-Critic Algorithm for Learning Rate Learning”, Xu et al 2016
- “A Bird’s Eye View of Synthetic Gradients”, Greydanus 2016
- “Learning to Reinforcement Learn”, Wang et al 2016
- “Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent”, Chen et al 2016
- “RL2: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning”, Duan et al 2016
- “Designing Neural Network Architectures Using Reinforcement Learning”, Baker et al 2016
- “Using Fast Weights to Attend to the Recent Past”, Ba et al 2016
- “HyperNetworks”, Ha et al 2016
- “Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients”, Jaderberg et al 2016
- “Learning to Learn by Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent”, Andrychowicz et al 2016
- “Matching Networks for One Shot Learning”, Vinyals et al 2016
- “Learning to Optimize”, Li & Malik 2016
- “One-Shot Learning With Memory-Augmented Neural Networks”, Santoro et al 2016
- “Adaptive Computation Time for Recurrent Neural Networks”, Graves 2016
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- “Extrapolating to Unnatural Language Processing With GPT-3’s In-Context Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Mysterious”
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- “Rapid Motor Adaptation for Legged Robots”
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- “Action and Perception As Divergence Minimization”
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- “The Lie Comes First, the Worlds to Accommodate It”
- “Sgdstore/experiments/omniglot at Master”
- “Curriculum For Reinforcement Learning”
- “Neural Architecture Search”
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- “Metalearning or Learning to Learn Since 1987”
- “The Future of Artificial Intelligence Is Self-Organizing and Self-Assembling”
- “Domain-Adaptive Meta-Learning”
- “How to Fix Reinforcement Learning”
- “Introducing Adept”
- “Optimal Learning: Computational Procedures for Bayes-Adaptive Markov Decision Processes”
- “Risks from Learned Optimization: Introduction”
- “How Good Are LLMs at Doing ML on an Unknown Dataset?”
- “Early Situational Awareness and Its Implications, a Story”
- “AI Is Learning How to Create Itself”
- “Matt Botvinick: Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI at DeepMind”
- “SMASH: One-Shot Model Architecture Search through HyperNetworks [Video]”
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“WBE & DRL: a Middle Way of Imitation Learning from Human Brains”, Gwern 2018
WBE & DRL: a Middle Way of imitation learning from human brains
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