--- title: Reptile: A scalable meta-learning algorithm | daily.dev description: OpenAI introduces Reptile, a scalable meta-learning algorithm that finds a good neural network initialization for fast adaptation to new tasks. Unlike MAML,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/reptile-a-scalable-meta-learning-algorithm-j3iycs0yy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Reptile: A scalable meta-learning algorithm | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI introduces Reptile, a scalable meta-learning algorithm that finds a good neural network initialization for fast adaptation to new tasks. Unlike MAML,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/reptile-a-scalable-meta-learning-algorithm-j3iycs0yy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/J3iyCs0yy.png og:image:alt: Reptile: A scalable meta-learning algorithm og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reptile: A scalable meta-learning algorithm **[OpenAI](https://daily.dev/sources/openai)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI introduces Reptile, a scalable meta-learning algorithm that finds a good neural network initialization for fast adaptation to new tasks. Unlike MAML, Reptile avoids unrolling computation graphs or computing second derivatives — it simply runs SGD on sampled tasks and updates initial parameters toward the learned parameters. This makes it more memory- and compute-efficient than MAML while achieving comparable performance on few-shot classification benchmarks (Omniglot, Mini-ImageNet). A Taylor series analysis shows Reptile maximizes inner products between gradients of different minibatches, explaining its generalization properties. The implementation is available in TensorFlow and PyTorch on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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