{"id":3428,"date":"2020-10-21T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T08:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2020-10-21T09:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T08:03:53","slug":"learning-to-learn-variational-semantic-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/index.php\/learning-to-learn-variational-semantic-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Learn Variational Semantic Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NeurIPS 2020 paper <em>Learning to Learn Variational Semantic Memory<\/em> by Xiantong Zhen*, Yingjun Du*, Huan Xiong, Qiang Qiu, Cees G. M. Snoek, and Ling Shao is now <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2010.10341\">available<\/a>. In this paper, we introduce variational semantic memory into meta-learning to acquire long-term knowledge for few-shot learning. The variational semantic memory accrues and stores semantic information for the probabilistic inference of class prototypes in a hierarchical Bayesian framework. The semantic memory is grown from scratch and gradually consolidated by absorbing information from tasks it experiences. By doing so, it is able to accumulate long-term, general knowledge that enables it to learn new concepts of objects. We formulate memory recall as the variational inference of a latent memory variable from addressed contents, which offers a principled way to adapt the knowledge to individual tasks. Our variational semantic memory, as a new long-term memory module, confers principled recall and update mechanisms that enable semantic information to be efficiently accrued and adapted for few-shot learning. Experiments demonstrate that the probabilistic modelling of prototypes achieves a more informative representation of object classes compared to deterministic vectors. The consistent new state-of-the-art performance on four benchmarks shows the benefit of variational semantic memory in boosting few-shot recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"954\" height=\"634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vsm.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vsm.png 954w, https:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vsm-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ceessnoek.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/vsm-768x510.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><figcaption>Graphical illustration of the proposed probabilistic prototype inference with variational semantic memory. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NeurIPS 2020 paper Learning to Learn Variational Semantic Memory by Xiantong Zhen*, Yingjun Du*, Huan Xiong, Qiang Qiu, Cees G. 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