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Meta-Learning

Training models that learn how to learn — after training on many tasks, they can quickly adapt to new tasks with very little data.

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Training models that learn how to learn — after training on many tasks, they can quickly adapt to new tasks with very little data. Also called 'learning to learn.' The goal is to build AI systems that are as sample-efficient as humans, who can learn a new concept from just one or two examples.

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