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It has been observed that neural networks perform poorly when the data or tasks are presented sequentially. Unlike humans, neural networks suffer greatly from catastrophic forgetting, making it impossible to perform life-long learning. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Longhui Yu , Tianyang Hu , Lanqing Hong , Zhen Liu , Adrian Weller , Weiyang Liu

The organization of latent token representations plays a crucial role in determining the stability, generalization, and contextual consistency of language models, yet conventional approaches to embedding refinement often rely on parameter…

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A large amount of research on Convolutional Neural Networks has focused on flat Classification in the multi-class domain. In the real world, many problems are naturally expressed as problems of hierarchical classification, in which the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Riccardo La Grassa , Ignazio Gallo , Nicola Landro

The ability to learn in dynamic, nonstationary environments without forgetting previous knowledge, also known as Continual Learning (CL), is a key enabler for scalable and trustworthy deployments of adaptive solutions. While the importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Andrea Cossu , Antonio Carta , Davide Bacciu

Continual learning is essential for adapting models to new tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. While existing approaches predominantly focus on uni-modal data, multi-modal learning offers substantial benefits by utilizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Evelyn Chee , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee

Much effort has been devoted to evaluate whether multi-task learning can be leveraged to learn rich representations that can be used in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) down-stream applications. However, there is still a lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Victor Sanh , Thomas Wolf , Sebastian Ruder

Scaling language models to longer contexts is essential for capturing rich dependencies across extended discourse. However, na\"ive context extension imposes significant computational and memory burdens, often resulting in inefficiencies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wenhao Li , Bangcheng Sun , Weihao Ye , Tianyi Zhang , Daohai Yu , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Interpreting the learning dynamics of neural networks can provide useful insights into how networks learn and the development of better training and design approaches. We present an approach to interpret learning in neural networks by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ayush Manish Agrawal , Atharva Tendle , Harshvardhan Sikka , Sahib Singh

We introduce a new training paradigm that enforces interval constraints on neural network parameter space to control forgetting. Contemporary Continual Learning (CL) methods focus on training neural networks efficiently from a stream of…

The two main challenges faced by continual learning approaches are catastrophic forgetting and memory limitations on the storage of data. To cope with these challenges, we propose a novel, cognitively-inspired approach which trains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

Token representation strategies within large-scale neural architectures often rely on contextually refined embeddings, yet conventional approaches seldom encode structured relationships explicitly within token interactions. Self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-27 James Blades , Frederick Somerfield , William Langley , Susan Everingham , Maurice Witherington

The quality of data representation in deep learning methods is directly related to the prior model imposed on the representations; however, generally used fixed priors are not capable of adjusting to the context in the data. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-03-18 Rakesh Chalasani , Jose C. Principe

We focus on the problem of learning without forgetting from multiple tasks arriving sequentially, where each task is defined using a few-shot episode of novel or already seen classes. We approach this problem using the recently published…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Max Vladymyrov , Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler

We investigate an extension of continuous online learning in recurrent neural network language models. The model keeps a separate vector representation of the current unit of text being processed and adaptively adjusts it after each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Marek Rei

Contemporary machine learning models, including large language models, exhibit remarkable capabilities in static tasks yet falter in non-stationary environments due to rigid architectures that hinder continual adaptation and lifelong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Akbar Anbar Jafari , Cagri Ozcinar , Gholamreza Anbarjafari

Continual learning studies how models can adapt to new tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Although a broad spectrum of methods has been proposed to mitigate catastrophic forgetting, the field remains predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Katarzyna Filus , Kamil Faber , Roberto Corizzo , Christopher Kanan

Structuring latent representations in a hierarchical manner enables models to learn patterns at multiple levels of abstraction. However, most prevalent image understanding models focus on visual similarity, and learning visual hierarchies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ziwei Wang , Sameera Ramasinghe , Chenchen Xu , Julien Monteil , Loris Bazzani , Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan

The rapid expansion in the size of new datasets has created a need for fast and efficient parameter-learning techniques. Compressive learning is a framework that enables efficient processing by using random, non-linear features to project…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Daniel Mas Montserrat , David Bonet , Maria Perera , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto , Alexander G. Ioannidis

Deep neural networks perform well on classification tasks where data streams are i.i.d. and labeled data is abundant. Challenges emerge with non-stationary training data streams such as continual learning. One powerful approach that has…

We develop a functional encoder-decoder approach to supervised meta-learning, where labeled data is encoded into an infinite-dimensional functional representation rather than a finite-dimensional one. Furthermore, rather than directly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-18 Jin Xu , Jean-Francois Ton , Hyunjik Kim , Adam R. Kosiorek , Yee Whye Teh