Hands-On Meta Learning with Python

Explore a diverse set of meta-learning algorithms and techniques to enable human-like cognition for your machine learning models using various Python frameworks
Key Features
Understand the foundations of meta learning algorithms

Explore practical examples to explore various one-shot learning algorithms with its applications in TensorFlow

Master state of the art meta learning algorithms like MAML, reptile, meta SGD


Book Description
Meta learning is an exciting research trend in machine learning, which enables a model to understand the learning process. Unlike other ML paradigms, with meta learning you can learn from small datasets faster.

Hands-On Meta Learning with Python starts by explaining the fundamentals of meta learning and helps you understand the concept of learning to learn. You will delve into various one-shot learning algorithms, like siamese, prototypical, relation and memory-augmented networks by implementing them in TensorFlow and Keras. As you make your way through the book, you will dive into state-of-the-art meta learning algorithms such as MAML, Reptile, and CAML. You will then explore how to learn quickly with Meta-SGD and discover how you can perform unsupervised learning using meta learning with CACTUs. In the concluding chapters, you will work through recent trends in meta learning such as adversarial meta learning, task agnostic meta learning, and meta imitation learning.

By the end of this book, you will be familiar with state-of-the-art meta learning algorithms and able to enable human-like cognition for your machine learning models.


What you will learn
Understand the basics of meta learning methods, algorithms, and types

Build voice and face recognition models using a siamese network

Learn the prototypical network along with its variants

Build relation networks and matching networks from scratch

Implement MAML and Reptile algorithms from scratch in Python

Work through imitation learning and adversarial meta learning

Explore task agnostic meta learning and deep meta learning


Who this book is for
Hands-On Meta Learning with Python is for machine learning enthusiasts, AI researchers, and data scientists who want to explore meta learning as an advanced approach for training machine learning models. Working knowledge of machine learning concepts and Python programming is necessary.