Meta-Learned Invariant Risk Minimization
Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) based machine learning algorithms have suffered from weak generalization performance on data obtained from out-of-distribution (OOD). To address this problem, Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) objective was suggested to find invariant optimal predictor which is less affected by the changes in data distribution. However, even with such progress, IRMv1, the practical formulation of IRM, still shows performance degradation when there are not enough training data, and even fails to generalize to OOD, if the number of spurious correlations is larger than the number of environments. In this paper, to address such problems, we propose a novel meta-learning based approach for IRM. In this method, we do not assume the linearity of classifier for the ease of optimization, and solve ideal bi-level IRM objective with Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) framework. Our method is more robust to the data with spurious correlations and can provide an invariant optimal classifier even when data from each distribution are scarce. In experiments, we demonstrate that our algorithm not only has better OOD generalization performance than IRMv1 and all IRM variants, but also addresses the weakness of IRMv1 with improved stability.
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