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Rachit Dubey, Erin Grant, Michael Luo, Karthik Narasimhan, Thomas Griffiths

MLTI lets task context shape a learner’s initialization before task-specific examples or rewards drive adaptation. A context network produces a conditioned starting point, while online feedback still updates the learner. In an infant-learning task reproduction, its validation loss was 3.65 and 6.19 in consistent and inconsistent contexts, unlike MAML; simulated benchmark gains were task-dependent, not universal.

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