用元学习自动选模型调参数,还能自动生成数据提升性能
Meta-Learning and Synthetic Data for Automated Pretraining and Finetuning
- 用元学习从过往任务中学习,自动选择最佳预训练模型和微调策略
- 在视觉与语言任务上表现优于传统微调,合成数据提升下游任务效果
- 可自动生成仿真数据替代真实环境,适合自动化机器学习研究者
机器学习中预训练模型数量激增,给实践者带来挑战:面对新数据集时,需确定最适合的深度学习流水线(包括预训练模型和微调超参数)。随着模型规模扩大,对真实数据的依赖成为瓶颈,需更高效利用数据。传统自动化机器学习主要针对表格数据和经典方法,难以适配深度学习。本文采用元学习,将自动化机器学习拓展至深度学习领域。提出基于先验任务知识的代理模型,实现计算机视觉任务中深度学习流水线的自动选择。扩展至语言领域后,可有效微调大语言模型。实验表明,该方法优于直接微调基础模型。进一步,通过元学习优化数据增强和合成数据生成,在自监督学习中显著提升性能。还提出将神经合成数据生成器作为强化学习环境的代理,并仅用随机采样的合成数据,以上下文学习方式构建多环境世界模型。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The growing number of pretrained models in Machine Learning (ML) presents significant challenges for practitioners. Given a new dataset, they need to determine the most suitable deep learning (DL) pipeline, consisting of the pretrained model and the hyperparameters for finetuning to it. Moreover, as models grow in scale, the increasing reliance on real-world data poses a bottleneck for training and requires leveraging data more effectively. Addressing the first challenge often involves manual model selection and hyperparameter tuning. At the same time, as models grow larger and more and more of the available human-generated data is being used for training, data augmentation and synthetic data become critical elements. Automated machine learning offers a path to address these challenges but is traditionally designed for tabular data and classical ML methods. This dissertation adopts meta-learning to extend automated machine learning to the deep learning domain. We propose empirical approaches to automate DL pipeline selection for Computer Vision tasks using prior task knowledge to learn surrogate models for pipeline ranking. Extending these methods to the language domain, we learn to finetune large language models. As a result, we show that our approach can outperform finetuning foundation models. Additionally, we meta-learn data augmentation and synthetic data to enhance performance in up-stream and down-stream tasks. We empirically show the underestimated importance of data augmentation when using Self-Supervised Learning and meta-learn advanced data augmentation strategies. Leveraging synthetic data, we also propose to meta-learn neural synthetic data generators as proxies for Reinforcement Learning (RL) environments. Additionally, we learn a multiple-environment world model in an in-context learning fashion by purely using synthetic, randomly sampled data.
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