In this task, you are given the abstract of a research paper. Your task is to generate a summary of this abstract. Your summary should not be very short, but it's better if it's not more than 30 words.

[EX Q]: In complex transfer learning scenarios new tasks might not be tightly linked to previous tasks. Approaches that transfer information contained only in the final parameters of a source model will therefore struggle. Instead, transfer learning at at higher level of abstraction is needed. We propose Leap, a framework that achieves this by transferring knowledge across learning processes. We associate each task with a manifold on which the training process travels from initialization to final parameters and construct a meta-learning objective that minimizes the expected length of this path. Our framework leverages only information obtained during training and can be computed on the fly at negligible cost. We demonstrate that our framework outperforms competing methods, both in meta-learning and transfer learning, on a set of computer vision tasks. Finally, we demonstrate that Leap can transfer knowledge across learning processes in demanding reinforcement learning environments (Atari) that involve millions of gradient steps.
[EX A]: We propose Leap, a framework that transfers knowledge across learning processes by minimizing the expected distance the training process travels on a task's loss surface.

[EX Q]: The Variational Auto Encoder (VAE) is a popular generative
latent variable model that is often
applied for representation learning.
Standard VAEs assume continuous valued
latent variables and are trained by maximization
of the evidence lower bound (ELBO). Conventional methods obtain a
differentiable estimate of the ELBO with reparametrized sampling and
optimize it with Stochastic Gradient Descend (SGD). However, this is not possible if
we want to train VAEs with discrete valued latent variables,
since reparametrized sampling is not possible. Till now, there
exist no simple solutions to circumvent this problem.
In this paper, we propose an easy method to train VAEs
with binary or categorically valued latent representations. Therefore, we use a differentiable
estimator for the ELBO which is based on importance sampling. In experiments, we verify the approach and
train two different VAEs architectures with Bernoulli and
Categorically distributed latent representations on two different benchmark
datasets.
[EX A]: We propose an easy method to train Variational Auto Encoders (VAE) with discrete latent representations, using importance sampling

[EX Q]: Neural network quantization is becoming an industry standard to efficiently deploy deep learning models on hardware platforms, such as CPU, GPU, TPU, and FPGAs. However, we observe that the conventional quantization approaches are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This paper aims to raise people's awareness about the security of the quantized models, and we designed a novel quantization methodology to jointly optimize the efficiency and robustness of deep learning models. We first conduct an empirical study to show that vanilla quantization suffers more from adversarial attacks. We observe that the inferior robustness comes from the error amplification effect, where the quantization operation further enlarges the distance caused by amplified noise. Then we propose a novel Defensive Quantization (DQ) method by controlling the Lipschitz constant of the network during quantization, such that the magnitude of the adversarial noise remains non-expansive during inference. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-10 and SVHN datasets demonstrate that our new quantization method can defend neural networks against adversarial examples, and even achieves superior robustness than their full-precision counterparts, while maintaining the same hardware efficiency as vanilla quantization approaches. As a by-product, DQ can also improve the accuracy of quantized models without adversarial attack.
[EX A]:
We designed a novel quantization methodology to jointly optimize the efficiency and robustness of deep learning models.