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Machine learning models often deteriorate in their performance when they are used to predict the outcomes over data on which they were not trained. These scenarios can often arise in real world when the distribution of data changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Narayanan U. Edakunni , Utkarsh Tekriwal , Anukriti Jain

This research proposes a novel drift detection methodology for machine learning (ML) models based on the concept of ''deformation'' in the vector space representation of data. Recognizing that new data can act as forces stretching,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Giancarlo Cobino , Simone Farci

In the past years, machine learning (ML) has become a popular approach to support self-adaptation. While ML techniques enable dealing with several problems in self-adaptation, such as scalable decision-making, they are also subject to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Omid Gheibi , Danny Weyns

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in computer science education through AI-assisted programming tools, yet such workflows often exhibit objective drift, in which locally plausible outputs diverge from stated task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Mark Dranias , Adam Whitley

Continual learning is the problem of learning and retaining knowledge through time over multiple tasks and environments. Research has primarily focused on the incremental classification setting, where new tasks/classes are added at discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Zhipeng Cai , Ozan Sener , Vladlen Koltun

Real-world reinforcement learning often faces environment drift, but most existing methods rely on static entropy coefficients/target entropy, causing over-exploration during stable periods and under-exploration after drift, and leaving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tongxi Wang , Zhuoyang Xia , Xinran Chen , Shan Liu

Existing neural solvers for vehicle routing problems (VRPs) are typically trained either in a one-off manner on a fixed set of pre-defined tasks or in a lifelong manner with tasks arriving sequentially, assuming sufficient training on each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiyuan Pei , Yi Mei , Jialin Liu , Mengjie Zhang , Xin Yao

Machine learning and deep learning-based decision making has become part of today's software. The goal of this work is to ensure that machine learning and deep learning-based systems are as trusted as traditional software. Traditional…

There exists a large body of work on online drift detection with the goal of dynamically finding and maintaining changes in data streams. In this paper, we adopt a query-based approach to drift detection. Our approach relies on {\em a drift…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Sofia Kleisarchaki , Sihem Amer-Yahia , Ahlame Douzal-Chouakria , Vassilis Christophides

Online Learning (OL) is a field of research that is increasingly gaining attention both in academia and industry. One of the main challenges of OL is the inherent presence of concept drifts, which are commonly defined as unforeseeable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi , Martin Theobald

We present a new model and methods for the posterior drift problem where the regression function in the target domain is modeled as a linear adjustment (on an appropriate scale) of that in the source domain, an idea that inherits the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-14 Subha Maity , Diptavo Dutta , Jonathan Terhorst , Yuekai Sun , Moulinath Banerjee

In real-world Federated Learning (FL) deployments, data distributions on devices that participate in training evolve over time. This leads to asynchronous data drift, where different devices shift at different times and toward different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yizhou Han , Di Wu , Blesson Varghese

Tiny Machine Learning (TML) is a new research area whose goal is to design machine and deep learning techniques able to operate in Embedded Systems and IoT units, hence satisfying the severe technological constraints on memory, computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Simone Disabato , Manuel Roveri

In real-world applications, machine learning models often become obsolete due to shifts in the joint distribution arising from underlying temporal trends, a phenomenon known as the "concept drift". Existing works propose model-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Chia-Yuan Chang , Yu-Neng Chuang , Zhimeng Jiang , Kwei-Herng Lai , Anxiao Jiang , Na Zou

One of the more challenging real-world problems in computational intelligence is to learn from non-stationary streaming data, also known as concept drift. Perhaps even a more challenging version of this scenario is when -- following a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Muhammad Umer , Robi Polikar

The goal of a learner, in standard online learning, is to have the cumulative loss not much larger compared with the best-performing function from some fixed class. Numerous algorithms were shown to have this gap arbitrarily close to zero,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-04 Nina Vaits , Edward Moroshko , Koby Crammer

Android malware detectors often degrade after deployment because of concept drift, while full retraining at each maintenance step is costly. We propose a chronological adaptive maintenance framework that models deployment-time maintenance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ahmed Sabbah , Mohammad Kharma , Mohammad Alkhanafseh , Radi Jarrar , Samer Zein , David Mohaisen

Machine learning models are being increasingly used to automate decisions in almost every domain, and ensuring the performance of these models is crucial for ensuring high quality machine learning enabled services. Ensuring concept drift is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-30 Nelvin Tan , Yu-Ching Shih , Dong Yang , Amol Salunkhe

Anomaly detection in multimedia datasets is a widely studied area. Yet, the concept drift challenge in data has been ignored or poorly handled by the majority of the anomaly detection frameworks. The state-of-the-art approaches assume that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Pratibha Kumari , Priyankar Choudhary , Pradeep K. Atrey , Mukesh Saini

Time series forecasting always faces the challenge of concept drift, where data distributions evolve over time, leading to a decline in forecast model performance. Existing solutions are based on online learning, which continually organize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Lifan Zhao , Yanyan Shen