<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We invite submissions of papers to the ICLR 2021 workshop on Learning to Learn. </span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">****** Key Info: ******</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop Website:</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/learning-2-learn/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://sites.google.com/view/learning-2-learn/</span></a></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The goal of the workshop is to bring together scientists from different backgrounds to further the understanding and development of learning to learn algorithms. In particular we are interested in creating a platform to enable the exchange between the fields of neuroscience and machine learning</span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="">We welcome contributions on all aspects of Learning To Learn, and specifically encourage contributions with respect to: <br class=""></span><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><div class="">1. What do we know about how humans learn to learn? How much of this knowledge has already been
realized in intelligent systems and what remains to be explored?<br class="">2. What should be our expectation of meta learning in intelligent systems? Are we currently evaluating the performance of meta learning in a meaningful way or are our learning problems and evaluations ill-posed? <br class=""></div><div class="">3. Related to
2), how does meta learning relate to the “no free lunch” theorem, and how do we keep this in mind when implementing learning to learn approaches in intelligent systems. </div><div class="">4. How can we meta-learn in a lifelong learning setting? Should we meta-learn how to learn continuously
or should we continuously meta-learn, or both? How do humans do it?</div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">****** Key Dates: ******</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission deadline: Feb 26th 2021</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop day: May 8th 2021 (virtual)</span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">****** Workshop Abstract******</span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recent years have seen a lot of interest in the use and development of learning-to-learn algorithms. In this workshop, we’d like to discuss how humans meta-learn, and what we can and should expect from learning-to-learn in the field of machine learning. In particular we are interested in creating a platform to enable the exchange between the fields of neuroscience and machine learning to create an opportunity to reflect upon questions that we believe are important to further advance the field of meta learning in the machine learning community. </span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We believe that it is an important moment for the machine learning community to reflect upon these questions in order to advance the field and increase its variety in approaching learning to learn. We hope that by fostering discussions between cognitive science and machine learning researchers, we enable both sides to draw inspiration to further the understanding and development of learning-to-learn algorithms.</span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invited Speakers:</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://ishita-dg.github.io/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ishita Dasgupta</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (DeepMind)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/risto/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Risto Miikkulainen</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (University of Texas at Austin)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.egrefen.com/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edward Grefenstette</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (FAIR)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.janexwang.com/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jane Wang</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (DeepMind)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Erin Grant</span><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (UC Berkeley)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/jennifer-raymond" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jennifer Raymon</span></a><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Stanford)</span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); white-space: pre-wrap;">We look forward to receiving your submissions!</span><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The organizing committee</span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sarah Bechtle (Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Todor Davchev (University of Edinburgh)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yevgen Chebotar (Google Brain)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Timothy Hospedales (University of Edinburgh and Samsung AI Research)</span></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Franziska Meier (Facebook AI Research)</span></div><br class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Email: </span><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="mailto:learningtolearn.iclr2021@gmail.com" class="">learningtolearn.iclr2021@gmail.com</a></span></body></html>