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Humans are efficient continual learning systems; we continually learn new skills from birth with finite cells and resources. Our learning is highly optimized both in terms of capacity and time while not suffering from catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Philip J. Ball , Yingzhen Li , Angus Lamb , Cheng Zhang

Learning new tasks accumulatively without forgetting remains a critical challenge in continual learning. Generative experience replay addresses this challenge by synthesizing pseudo-data points for past learned tasks and later replaying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Zizhao Hu , Mohammad Rostami

Continual Learning is considered a key step toward next-generation Artificial Intelligence. Among various methods, replay-based approaches that maintain and replay a small episodic memory of previous samples are one of the most successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Guangji Bai , Chen Ling , Yuyang Gao , Liang Zhao

Learning to read words aloud is a major step towards becoming a reader. Many children struggle with the task because of the inconsistencies of English spelling-sound correspondences. Curricula vary enormously in how these patterns are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Ayon Sen , Christopher R. Cox , Matthew Cooper Borkenhagen , Mark S. Seidenberg , Xiaojin Zhu

Distributed optimization and learning algorithms are designed to operate over large scale networks enabling processing of vast amounts of data effectively and efficiently. One of the main challenges for ensuring a smooth learning process in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Apostolos I. Rikos , Nicola Bastianello , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

Learning how to learn efficiently is a fundamental challenge for biological agents and a growing concern for artificial ones. To learn effectively, an agent must regulate its learning speed, balancing the benefits of rapid improvement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Valentina Njaradi , Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis , Peter E. Latham , Andrew Saxe

Prompt optimization is essential for enhancing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, particularly in scenarios of few-shot learning where training examples are incorporated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Dai Do , Quan Tran , Svetha Venkatesh , Hung Le

Scheduled batch jobs have been widely used on the asynchronous computing platforms to execute various enterprise applications, including the scheduled notifications and the candidate pre-computation for the modern recommender systems. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yang Liu , Juan Wang , Zhengxing Chen , Ian Fox , Imani Mufti , Jason Sukumaran , Baokun He , Xiling Sun , Feng Liang

Using precise times of every spike, spiking supervised learning has more effects on complex spatial-temporal pattern than supervised learning only through neuronal firing rates. The purpose of spiking supervised learning after…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Guojun Chen , Xianghong Lin , Guoen Wang

Spaced repetition systems are fundamental to efficient learning and memory retention, but existing algorithms often struggle with semantic interference and personalized adaptation. We present LECTOR (\textbf{L}LM-\textbf{E}nhanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiahao Zhao

In this paper we present a strategy for optimization functions with stochastic input. The main idea is to take advantage of decomposition in combination with a look-up table. Deciding what input values should be used for memoization is…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Edin H. Mulalić , Miomir S. Stanković , Radomir S. Stanković

Stochastic resetting, where a dynamical process is intermittently returned to a fixed reference state, has emerged as a powerful mechanism for optimizing first-passage properties. Existing theory largely treats static, non-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jello Zhou , Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn , David J. Schwab

Continual learning aims to learn multiple tasks sequentially while preserving prior knowledge, but faces the challenge of catastrophic forgetting when adapting to new tasks. Recently, approaches leveraging pre-trained models have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Quan Cheng , Yuanyu Wan , Lingyu Wu , Chenping Hou , Lijun Zhang

Decentralized optimization enables multiple devices to learn a global machine learning model while each individual device only has access to its local dataset. By avoiding the need for training data to leave individual users' devices, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ziqin Chen , Zuang Wang , Yongqiang Wang

Self-paced reinforcement learning (RL) aims to improve the data efficiency of learning by automatically creating sequences, namely curricula, of probability distributions over contexts. However, existing techniques for self-paced RL fail in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Cevahir Koprulu , Ufuk Topcu

Rehearsal is one of the key techniques for mitigating catastrophic forgetting and has been widely adopted in continual learning algorithms due to its simplicity and practicality. However, the theoretical understanding of how rehearsal scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 JinLi He , Liang Bai , Xian Yang

Continual learning, the setting where a learning agent is faced with a never ending stream of data, continues to be a great challenge for modern machine learning systems. In particular the online or "single-pass through the data" setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Rahaf Aljundi , Lucas Caccia , Eugene Belilovsky , Massimo Caccia , Min Lin , Laurent Charlin , Tinne Tuytelaars

This paper considers online optimization for a system that performs a sequence of back-to-back tasks. Each task can be processed in one of multiple processing modes that affect the duration of the task, the reward earned, and an additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Michael J. Neely

Existing approaches to resource allocation for nowadays stochastic networks are challenged to meet fast convergence and tolerable delay requirements. The present paper leverages online learning advances to facilitate stochastic resource…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Tianyi Chen , Aryan Mokhtari , Xin Wang , Alejandro Ribeiro , Georgios B. Giannakis

Much more attention has been paid to unsupervised feature selection nowadays due to the emergence of massive unlabeled data. The distribution of samples and the latent effect of training a learning method using samples in more effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Weiyi Li , Hongmei Chen , Tianrui Li , Jihong Wan , Binbin Sang