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Leo Feng

leo.feng@mila.quebec
PhD - Université de Montréal
Supervisor
Yoshua Bengio
Research Topics
Deep Learning
Website
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Publications

Constant Memory Attentive Neural Processes
Leo Feng
Frederick Tung
Hossein Hajimirsadeghi
Yoshua Bengio
Mohamed Osama Ahmed
2023-01-01
arXiv.org (preprint)
doi.org
Efficient Queries Transformer Neural Processes
Leo Feng
Hossein Hajimirsadeghi
Yoshua Bengio
Mohamed Osama Ahmed
2022-10-21
NeurIPS.cc/2022/Workshop/MetaLearn (poster)
openreview.net
openreview.net
Designing Biological Sequences via Meta-Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimization
Leo Feng
Padideh Nouri
Aneri Muni
Yoshua Bengio
Pierre-Luc Bacon
The ability to accelerate the design of biological sequences can have a substantial impact on the progress of the medical field. The problem… (see more) can be framed as a global optimization problem where the objective is an expensive black-box function such that we can query large batches restricted with a limitation of a low number of rounds. Bayesian Optimization is a principled method for tackling this problem. However, the astronomically large state space of biological sequences renders brute-force iterating over all possible sequences infeasible. In this paper, we propose MetaRLBO where we train an autoregressive generative model via Meta-Reinforcement Learning to propose promising sequences for selection via Bayesian Optimization. We pose this problem as that of finding an optimal policy over a distribution of MDPs induced by sampling subsets of the data acquired in the previous rounds. Our in-silico experiments show that meta-learning over such ensembles provides robustness against reward misspecification and achieves competitive results compared to existing strong baselines.
2022-09-13
ArXiv (preprint)
doi.org
arxiv.org
Continuous-Time Meta-Learning with Forward Mode Differentiation
Tristan Deleu
David Kanaa
Leo Feng
Giancarlo Kerg
Yoshua Bengio
Guillaume Lajoie
Pierre-Luc Bacon
Drawing inspiration from gradient-based meta-learning methods with infinitely small gradient steps, we introduce Continuous-Time Meta-Learni… (see more)ng (COMLN), a meta-learning algorithm where adaptation follows the dynamics of a gradient vector field. Specifically, representations of the inputs are meta-learned such that a task-specific linear classifier is obtained as a solution of an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Treating the learning process as an ODE offers the notable advantage that the length of the trajectory is now continuous, as opposed to a fixed and discrete number of gradient steps. As a consequence, we can optimize the amount of adaptation necessary to solve a new task using stochastic gradient descent, in addition to learning the initial conditions as is standard practice in gradient-based meta-learning. Importantly, in order to compute the exact meta-gradients required for the outer-loop updates, we devise an efficient algorithm based on forward mode differentiation, whose memory requirements do not scale with the length of the learning trajectory, thus allowing longer adaptation in constant memory. We provide analytical guarantees for the stability of COMLN, we show empirically its efficiency in terms of runtime and memory usage, and we illustrate its effectiveness on a range of few-shot image classification problems.
2022-01-28
ICLR.cc/2022/Conference (spotlight)
doi.org
openreview.net