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Meta-Learning (Learning to Learn)

Training a model across many small tasks so it can pick up a brand-new task from a handful of examples. The explicit version of what LLMs turned out to do implicitly, in-context learning at scale made dedicated meta-learning algorithms like MAML mostly historical.

Key terms

MAMLFew-shot tasksInner and outer loopTask distributionIn-context learning

Where you meet it in the real world

Few-shot classification, rapid adaptation in robotics, historically the road to in-context learning

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