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Poster

Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent

Yutian Chen · Matthew Hoffman · Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo · Misha Denil · Timothy Lillicrap · Matthew Botvinick · Nando de Freitas

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Abstract:

We learn recurrent neural network optimizers trained on simple synthetic functions by gradient descent. We show that these learned optimizers exhibit a remarkable degree of transfer in that they can be used to efficiently optimize a broad range of derivative-free black-box functions, including Gaussian process bandits, simple control objectives, global optimization benchmarks and hyper-parameter tuning tasks. Up to the training horizon, the learned optimizers learn to trade-off exploration and exploitation, and compare favourably with heavily engineered Bayesian optimization packages for hyper-parameter tuning.

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