*Meta* comes from the Greek and means beyond/behind/after.
Ex: The *meta-data* of an image, is the data *behind* that image, such are date taken, location taken, resolution, etc…
*Meta-learning* refers to what is lying behind the learning(process).
It is often used in a Artificial Inteligence and Machine Learning context to refer to understanding of how the AI/ML algoritms work in order to optimize them.
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