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arXiv 2403.03472cs.LGcs.CV

利用基类信息增强小样本学习的元训练

Boosting Meta-Training with Base Class Information for Few-Shot Learning

Weihao Jiang, Guodong Liu, Di He, Kun He

AI总结:

针对小样本学习中Meta-Baseline非端到端训练成本高、性能受限的问题,提出含内外交替循环的端到元训练范式,融合基类全局信息与元学习模式,实现快速收敛和约1%的性能提升,且具备模型无关性。

摘要:

小样本学习是机器学习中一项具有挑战性的任务,旨在学习一个可适配的分类器,以仅有的少量标注样本识别全新的、未见过的类别。元学习已成为小样本学习的主流框架,其训练范式最初是一种任务级学习方法,例如Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML,模型无关元学习)和Prototypical Networks(原型网络)。而近期提出的名为Meta-Baseline(元基线)的训练范式由顺序的预训练和元训练阶段组成,取得了当前最优的性能。但作为一种非端到端的训练方法,这意味着元训练阶段必须在预训练完成后才能开始,Meta-Baseline存在训练成本更高的问题,且由于两个训练阶段的内在冲突,性能未达最优。为解决这些局限,我们提出一种由两个交替循环构成的端到端训练范式。在外循环中,我们在整个训练集上计算交叉熵损失,同时仅更新最终的线性层。在内循环中,我们采用原始的元学习训练模式计算损失,并引入外循环损失的梯度来指导参数更新。该训练范式不仅收敛速度快,而且性能优于现有基线,表明来自整体训练集的信息与元学习训练范式可以相互强化。此外,由于具备模型无关性,我们的框架实现了显著的性能提升,较基线系统高出约1%。

英文摘要:

Few-shot learning, a challenging task in machine learning, aims to learn a classifier adaptable to recognize new, unseen classes with limited labeled examples. Meta-learning has emerged as a prominent framework for few-shot learning. Its training framework is originally a task-level learning method, such as Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) and Prototypical Networks. And a recently proposed training paradigm called Meta-Baseline, which consists of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages, gains state-of-the-art performance. However, as a non-end-to-end training method, indicating the meta-training stage can only begin after the completion of pre-training, Meta-Baseline suffers from higher training cost and suboptimal performance due to the inherent conflicts of the two training stages. To address these limitations, we propose an end-to-end training paradigm consisting of two alternative loops. In the outer loop, we calculate cross entropy loss on the entire training set while updating only the final linear layer. In the inner loop, we employ the original meta-learning training mode to calculate the loss and incorporate gradients from the outer loss to guide the parameter updates. This training paradigm not only converges quickly but also outperforms existing baselines, indicating that information from the overall training set and the meta-learning training paradigm could mutually reinforce one another. Moreover, being model-agnostic, our framework achieves significant performance gains, surpassing the baseline systems by approximate 1%.

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