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Deep neural networks are known to suffer the catastrophic forgetting problem, where they tend to forget the knowledge from the previous tasks when sequentially learning new tasks. Such failure hinders the application of deep learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Junfeng Wen , Yanshuai Cao , Ruitong Huang

Human being and different species of animals having the skills to gather, transferring knowledge, processing, fine-tune and generating information throughout their lifetime. The ability of learning throughout their lifespan is referred as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Ashutosh Kumar , Sonali Agarwal , D Jude Hemanth

Catastrophic forgetting is the notorious vulnerability of neural networks to the change of the data distribution while learning. This phenomenon has long been considered a major obstacle for allowing the use of learning agents in realistic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-13 Chen Zeno , Itay Golan , Elad Hoffer , Daniel Soudry

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 new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Shixian Wen , Laurent Itti

Catastrophic forgetting in deep neural networks occurs when learning new tasks degrades performance on previously learned tasks due to knowledge overwriting. Among the approaches to mitigate this issue, regularization techniques aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Idan Mashiach , Oren Glickman , Tom Tirer

Artificial neural networks face the well-known problem of catastrophic forgetting. What's worse, the degradation of previously learned skills becomes more severe as the task sequence increases, known as the long-term catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Jian Peng , Bo Tang , Hao Jiang , Zhuo Li , Yinjie Lei , Tao Lin , Haifeng Li

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

A common challenge in continual learning (CL) is catastrophic forgetting, where the performance on old tasks drops after new, additional tasks are learned. In this paper, we propose a novel framework called ReCL to slow down forgetting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Pascal Janetzky , Tobias Schlagenhauf , Stefan Feuerriegel

Sequential learning in physical networks is hindered by catastrophic forgetting, where training a new task erases solutions to earlier ones. We show that we can significantly enhance memory of previous tasks by introducing a hard threshold…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-04 Purba Chatterjee , Marcelo Guzman , Andrea J. Liu

Artificial neural networks have exceeded human-level performance in accomplishing several individual tasks (e.g. voice recognition, object recognition, and video games). However, such success remains modest compared to human intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Rahaf Aljundi

Continual learning models allow to learn and adapt to new changes and tasks over time. However, in continual and sequential learning scenarios in which the models are trained using different data with various distributions, neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 HongLin Li , Payam Barnaghi , Shirin Enshaeifar , Frieder Ganz

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

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 to learn different tasks sequentially is essential to the development of artificial intelligence. In general, neural networks lack this capability, the major obstacle being catastrophic forgetting. It occurs when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Kaustubh Olpadkar , Ekta Gavas

Artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when they are sequentially trained on multiple tasks. To overcome this problem, we present a novel approach based on task-conditioned hypernetworks, i.e., networks that generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Johannes von Oswald , Christian Henning , Benjamin F. Grewe , João Sacramento

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

Neural networks can achieve excellent results in a wide variety of applications. However, when they attempt to sequentially learn, they tend to learn the new task while catastrophically forgetting previous ones. We propose a model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Craig Atkinson , Brendan McCane , Lech Szymanski , Anthony Robins

A plain well-trained deep learning model often does not have the ability to learn new knowledge without forgetting the previously learned knowledge, which is known as catastrophic forgetting. Here we propose a novel method, SupportNet, to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Yu Li , Zhongxiao Li , Lizhong Ding , Yijie Pan , Chao Huang , Yuhui Hu , Wei Chen , Xin Gao

In many real-world scenarios, data to train machine learning models becomes available over time. Unfortunately, these models struggle to continually learn new concepts without forgetting what has been learnt in the past. This phenomenon is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Beyza Ermis , Giovanni Zappella , Martin Wistuba , Aditya Rawal , Cedric Archambeau

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