A Simple Yet Effective Strategy to Robustify the Meta Learning Paradigm

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00708v1
• Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 15:54:45 GMT
• Title: A Simple Yet Effective Strategy to Robustify the Meta Learning Paradigm
• Authors: Qi Wang, Yiqin Lv, Yanghe Feng, Zheng Xie, Jincai Huang
• Abstract summary: We propose a two-stage strategy to control the worst fast adaptation cases at a certain probabilistic level. Experimental results show that our simple method can improve the robustness of meta learning to task distributions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Meta learning is a promising paradigm to enable skill transfer across tasks. Most previous methods employ the empirical risk minimization principle in optimization. However, the resulting worst fast adaptation to a subset of tasks can be catastrophic in risk-sensitive scenarios. To robustify fast adaptation, this paper optimizes meta learning pipelines from a distributionally robust perspective and meta trains models with the measure of expected tail risk. We take the two-stage strategy as heuristics to solve the robust meta learning problem, controlling the worst fast adaptation cases at a certain probabilistic level. Experimental results show that our simple method can improve the robustness of meta learning to task distributions and reduce the conditional expectation of the worst fast adaptation risk.

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