Flow to Learn: Flow Matching on Neural Network Parameters

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Autori principali: Saragih, Daniel, Cao, Deyu, Balaji, Tejas, Santhosh, Ashwin
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Saragih, Daniel
Cao, Deyu
Balaji, Tejas
Santhosh, Ashwin
author_facet Saragih, Daniel
Cao, Deyu
Balaji, Tejas
Santhosh, Ashwin
contents Foundational language models show a remarkable ability to learn new concepts during inference via context data. However, similar work for images lag behind. To address this challenge, we introduce FLoWN, a flow matching model that learns to generate neural network parameters for different tasks. Our approach models the flow on latent space, while conditioning the process on context data. Experiments verify that FLoWN attains various desiderata for a meta-learning model. In addition, it matches or exceeds baselines on in-distribution tasks, provides better initializations for classifier training, and is performant on out-of-distribution few-shot tasks while having a fine-tuning mechanism to improve performance.
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spellingShingle Flow to Learn: Flow Matching on Neural Network Parameters
Saragih, Daniel
Cao, Deyu
Balaji, Tejas
Santhosh, Ashwin
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Foundational language models show a remarkable ability to learn new concepts during inference via context data. However, similar work for images lag behind. To address this challenge, we introduce FLoWN, a flow matching model that learns to generate neural network parameters for different tasks. Our approach models the flow on latent space, while conditioning the process on context data. Experiments verify that FLoWN attains various desiderata for a meta-learning model. In addition, it matches or exceeds baselines on in-distribution tasks, provides better initializations for classifier training, and is performant on out-of-distribution few-shot tasks while having a fine-tuning mechanism to improve performance.
title Flow to Learn: Flow Matching on Neural Network Parameters
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19371