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NYU machine learning professor Andrew Gordon Wilson seeks meta-learning success stories, sparking debate over whether LLMs qualify

Pedro Ortega argues LLMs are a primary success story.

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Andrew Gordon Wilson@andrewgwils#159inTech

What are the success stories of meta learning?

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To be a bit more specific, I'm talking about "learning to learn" --- learning the loss function, the optimizer, the architecture, etc. Any success there?

What are the success stories of meta learning?

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Gael Varoquaux 🦋@GaelVaroquaux

@andrewgwils TabPFN (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08328-6) and its open source competition TabICL (https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11139 for the latest iteration) are meeting a lot of success in tabular learning

What are the success stories of meta learning?

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David Holzmüller@DHolzmueller

@andrewgwils PFN-style tabular foundation models like TabPFN or TabICL meta-learn how to do in-context tabular classification/regression, outperforming other models (boosted trees, from-scratch deep learning) within their pre-training ranges even without hyperparameter tuning.

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Joan Velja@Joanvelja

@andrewgwils would you consider in-context learning meta-learning?

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Victor Butoi@ion_barrel

@andrewgwils meta imitation-learning?

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RationalG@rational_ghost1

@andrewgwils In-context learning. Some facial recognition

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Kiran Vaddi@imvaddi

@andrewgwils PFNs for BayesOpt by and large.

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