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With the capacity of continual learning, humans can continuously acquire knowledge throughout their lifespan. However, computational systems are not, in general, capable of learning tasks sequentially. This long-standing challenge for deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Qihan Yang , Fan Feng , Rosa Chan

Although deep learning performs really well in a wide variety of tasks, it still suffers from catastrophic forgetting -- the tendency of neural networks to forget previously learned information upon learning new tasks where previous data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ankur Singh

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) suffer from a rapid decrease in performance when trained on a sequence of tasks where only data of the most recent task is available. This phenomenon, known as catastrophic forgetting, prevents DNNs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Felix Wiewel , Bin Yang

Artificial neural networks thrive in solving the classification problem for a particular rigid task, acquiring knowledge through generalized learning behaviour from a distinct training phase. The resulting network resembles a static entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Matthias De Lange , Rahaf Aljundi , Marc Masana , Sarah Parisot , Xu Jia , Ales Leonardis , Gregory Slabaugh , Tinne Tuytelaars

While deep neural networks have surpassed human performance in multiple situations, they are prone to catastrophic forgetting: upon training a new task, they rapidly forget previously learned ones. Neuroscience studies, based on idealized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Axel Laborieux , Maxence Ernoult , Tifenn Hirtzlin , Damien Querlioz

This paper describes some of the possibilities of artificial neural networks that open up after solving the problem of catastrophic forgetting. A simple model and reinforcement learning applications of existing methods are also proposed.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Albert Ierusalem

Catastrophic forgetting affects the training of neural networks, limiting their ability to learn multiple tasks sequentially. From the perspective of the well established plasticity-stability dilemma, neural networks tend to be overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Seyed Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Razvan Pascanu , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

The ability of artificial agents to increment their capabilities when confronted with new data is an open challenge in artificial intelligence. The main challenge faced in such cases is catastrophic forgetting, i.e., the tendency of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu , Ioannis Kanellos

This book chapter delves into the dynamics of continual learning, which is the process of incrementally learning from a non-stationary stream of data. Although continual learning is a natural skill for the human brain, it is very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Gido M. van de Ven , Nicholas Soures , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

Catastrophic forgetting is a problem faced by many machine learning models and algorithms. When trained on one task, then trained on a second task, many machine learning models "forget" how to perform the first task. This is widely believed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-05 Ian J. Goodfellow , Mehdi Mirza , Da Xiao , Aaron Courville , Yoshua Bengio

Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks is a significant problem for continual learning. A majority of the current methods replay previous data during training, which violates the constraints of an ideal continual learning system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Prakhar Kaushik , Alex Gain , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille

Supervised Continual learning involves updating a deep neural network (DNN) from an ever-growing stream of labeled data. While most work has focused on overcoming catastrophic forgetting, one of the major motivations behind continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Md Yousuf Harun , Jhair Gallardo , Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have two key deficiencies, their dependence on high precision computing and their inability to perform sequential learning, that is, when a DNN is trained on a first task and the same DNN is trained on the next…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ruthvik Vaila , John Chiasson , Vishal Saxena

Sequential learning of multiple tasks in artificial neural networks using gradient descent leads to catastrophic forgetting, whereby previously learned knowledge is erased during learning of new, disjoint knowledge. Here, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Shixian Wen , Laurent Itti

The core challenge with continual learning is catastrophic forgetting, the phenomenon that when neural networks are trained on a sequence of tasks they rapidly forget previously learned tasks. It has been observed that catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Mark Collier , Efi Kokiopoulou , Andrea Gesmundo , Jesse Berent

Standard artificial neural networks suffer from the well-known issue of catastrophic forgetting, making continual or lifelong learning difficult for machine learning. In recent years, numerous methods have been proposed for continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Gido M. van de Ven , Andreas S. Tolias

Continual learning refers to the problem where the training data is available in sequential chunks, termed "tasks". The majority of progress in continual learning has been stunted by the problem of catastrophic forgetting, which is caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Rajas Chitale , Ankit Vaidya , Aditya Kane , Archana Ghotkar

We study the neural-linear bandit model for solving sequential decision-making problems with high dimensional side information. Neural-linear bandits leverage the representation power of deep neural networks and combine it with efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Tom Zahavy , Shie Mannor

Large language models exhibit remarkable performance across diverse tasks through pre-training and fine-tuning paradigms. However, continual fine-tuning on sequential tasks induces catastrophic forgetting, where newly acquired knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov

While neural networks are powerful function approximators, they suffer from catastrophic forgetting when the data distribution is not stationary. One particular formalism that studies learning under non-stationary distribution is provided…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-13 Xu He , Jakub Sygnowski , Alexandre Galashov , Andrei A. Rusu , Yee Whye Teh , Razvan Pascanu