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Hands-On Meta Learning with Python

By : Sudharsan Ravichandiran
Book Image

Hands-On Meta Learning with Python

By: Sudharsan Ravichandiran

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Matching networks in TensorFlow


Now, we will see how to build a matching network in TensorFlow step by step. We will see the final code at the end.

First, we import the libraries:

import tensorflow as tf
slim = tf.contrib.slim
rnn = tf.contrib.rnn

Now, we define a class called Matching_network, where we define our network:

class Matching_network():

We define the __init__ method, where we initialize all of the variables:

    def __init__(self, lr, n_way, k_shot, batch_size=32):

        #placeholder for support set
        self.support_set_image = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, n_way * k_shot, 28, 28, 1])
        self.support_set_label = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None, n_way * k_shot, ])

        #placeholder for query set
        self.query_image = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, [None, 28, 28, 1])
        self.query_label = tf.placeholder(tf.int32, [None, ])

Let's say our support set and query set have images. Before feeding this raw image to the embedding function, first, we will extract the features...