Methods › Sequential › Recurrent Neural Networks › SNAIL

Simple Neural Attention Meta-Learner

SNAIL

11 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Nikhil Mishra et al. in A Simple Neural Attentive Meta-Learner

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

The Simple Neural Attention Meta-Learner, or SNAIL, combines the benefits of temporal convolutions and attention to solve meta-learning tasks. They introduce positional dependence through temporal convolutions to make the model applicable to reinforcement tasks - where the observations, actions, and rewards are intrinsically sequential. They also introduce attention in order to provide pinpoint access over an infinitely large context. SNAIL is constructing by combining the two: we use temporal convolutions to produce the context over which we use a causal attention operation.

PaperSource

Papers archive 2025-07-28

11 shown of 11, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

12 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
Meta-Learning2
Anomaly Detection1
Few-Shot Image Classification1
Few-Shot Learning1
Image Segmentation1
Metric Learning1
Navigate1
Reinforcement Learning1
Semantic Segmentation1
Sequential skip prediction1
Style Transfer1
feature selection1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with SNAIL: 2017 to 2024, peak 3 3 0 2017: 1 paper 2017 2018: 0 papers 2018 2019: 1 paper 2019 2020: 1 paper 2020 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 2 papers 2022 2023: 3 papers 2023 2024: 2 papers 2024
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (11 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

Components: the archive holds no method-to-method composition, so PwC's Components table cannot be rebuilt; the Papers list carries no Results column for the same reason (the archive does not join its leaderboard rows to method tags).

Categories archive 2025-07-28

Recurrent Neural Networks

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections