Existing meta-learning based few-shot learning (FSL) methods typically adopt an episodic training strategy whereby each episode contains a meta-task. Across episodes, these tasks are sampled randomly and their relationships are ignored. In this paper, we argue that the inter-meta-task relationships should be exploited to learn models that are more generalizable to unseen classes with few-shots. Specifically, we consider the relationships between two types of meta-tasks and propose different strategies to exploit them. (1) Two meta-tasks with disjoint sets of classes: these are interesting because their relationship is reminiscent of that between the source seen classes and target unseen classes, featured with domain gap caused by class differences. A novel meta-training strategy named meta-domain adaptation (MDA) is proposed to make the meta-learned model more robust to the domain gap. (2) Two meta-tasks with identical sets of classes: these are interesting because they can be used to learn models that are robust against poorly sampled few-shots. To that end, a novel meta-knowledge distillation (MKD) strategy is formulated. Extensive experiments demonstrate that both MDA and MKD significantly boost the performance of a variety of existing FSL methods and thus achieve new state-of-the-art on three benchmarks.

本文提出了利用元任务之间的关系来辅助元学习的方法，分别考虑了在两种类型的元任务对上的关系，并提出了不同的策略来利用它们：1）有不相交类集的两个元任务，2）有相同类集的两个元任务，并给出了相应的新学习目标。然而由于实验中的一些错误，我们选择撤回本文。

元学习跨元任务进行少样本学习