Denevi, G; Ciliberto, C; Stamos, D; Pontil, M; (2018) Incremental learning-to-learn with statistical guarantees. In: Globerson, Amir and Silva, Ricardo, (eds.) Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Conference (2018), Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (pp. pp. 457-466). AUAI: California, USA.

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In learning-to-learn the goal is to infer a learning algorithm that works well on a class of tasks sampled from an unknown metadistribution. In contrast to previous work on batch learning-to-learn, we consider a scenario where tasks are presented sequentially and the algorithm needs to adapt incrementally to improve its performance on future tasks. Key to this setting is for the algorithm to rapidly incorporate new observations into the model as they arrive, without keeping them in memory. We focus on the case where the underlying algorithm is Ridge Regression parametrised by a symmetric positive semidefinite matrix. We propose to learn this matrix by applying a stochastic strategy to minimize the empirical error incurred by Ridge Regression on future tasks sampled from the meta-distribution. We study the statistical properties of the proposed algorithm and prove non-asymptotic bounds on its excess transfer risk, that is, the generalization performance on new tasks from the same meta-distribution. We compare our online learning-to-learn approach with a state-of-the-art batch method, both theoretically and empirically.

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