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Unsupervised Meta-Learning via Latent Space Energy-based Model of Symbol Vector Coupling

30 Sep 20215th Workshop on Meta-Learning at NeurIPS 2021 2021 9archive 2025-07-28

Deqian Kong, Bo Pang, Ying Nian Wu

Meta-learning aims to learn a model from a stream of tasks such that the model is able to generalize across tasks and rapidly adapt to new tasks. We propose to learn an energy-based model (EBM) in the latent space of a top-down generative model such that the EBM in the low dimensional latent space is able to be learned efficiently and adapt to each task rapidly. Furthermore, the energy term couples a continuous latent vector and a symbolic one-hot label. Such coupling formulation allows the model to be learned in an unsupervised manner when the labels are unknown. Our model is learned unsupervisedly in the meta-training phase and evaluated semi-supervisedly in the meta-test phase. We evaluate our model on widely used benchmarks for few-shot meta-learning, Omniglot, and Mini-ImageNet. Our model achieves competitive or superior performance compared to previous state-of-the-art meta-learning models.

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