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[11] Jacob Andreas - Learning from Language

The Thesis Review

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The Importance of Meta Learning in Machine Learning

The idea that we can maybe acquire slightly more abstract descriptions of you know what it means to like form a rule on the basis of a small amount of data seems like the most exciting thing. figuring out how to make that kind of behavior robust and predictable and more than 50% accurate is the really important thing. And I think where it ties into this latent descriptions work is that that is the kind of structure more even thanyou know the fact that birds have heads that we want to be able to import into other machine learning problems right if there's something generic about these are the kinds of like decision rules that are plausible or computational processes that are useful for solving real world tasks.

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