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Natural Language to Structured Query Generation via Meta-Learning

2 Mar 2018NAACL 2018 6arXiv:1803.02400archive 2025-07-28

Po-Sen Huang, Chenglong Wang, Rishabh Singh, Wen-tau Yih, Xiaodong He

In conventional supervised training, a model is trained to fit all the training examples. However, having a monolithic model may not always be the best strategy, as examples could vary widely. In this work, we explore a different learning protocol that treats each example as a unique pseudo-task, by reducing the original learning problem to a few-shot meta-learning scenario with the help of a domain-dependent relevance function. When evaluated on the WikiSQL dataset, our approach leads to faster convergence and achieves 1.1%-5.4% absolute accuracy gains over the non-meta-learning counterparts.

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Code Generation WikiSQL PT-MAML (Huang et al., 2018) Exact Match Accuracy 62.8 #7 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Code Generation WikiSQL PT-MAML (Huang et al., 2018) Execution Accuracy 68.0 #7 of 10 Archive leaderboard report

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