title: Meta Learning via Learned Loss
abstract: We present a meta-learning method for learning parametric loss functions that can generalize across different tasks and model architectures. We develop a pipeline for training such loss functions, targeted at maximizing the performance of model learn- ing with them. We observe that the loss landscape produced by our learned losses significantly improves upon the original task-specific losses in both supervised and reinforcement learning tasks. Furthermore, we show that our meta-learning framework is flexible enough to incorporate additional information at meta-train time. This information shapes the learned loss function such that the environment does not need to provide this information during meta-test time.
authors: Sarah Bechtle Artem Molchanov Yevgen Chebotar Edward Grefenstette Ludovic Righetti Gaurav Sukhatme Franziska Meier
hIndex: Gaurav Sukhatme 87