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We present a system for bottom-up cumulative learning of myriad concepts corresponding to meaningful character strings, and their part-related and prediction edges. The learning is self-supervised in that the concepts discovered are used as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Omid Madani

Continual Semantic Segmentation (CSS) requires learning new classes without forgetting previously acquired knowledge, addressing the fundamental challenge of catastrophic forgetting in dense prediction tasks. However, existing CSS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Wentao Zhang , Zishan Xu , Dexia Chen , Siyu Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Ruixuan Wang

Despite their high accuracy, complex neural networks demand significant computational resources, posing challenges for deployment on resource constrained devices such as mobile phones and embedded systems. Compression algorithms have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ali Aghababaei-Harandi , Massih-Reza Amini

Continual Learning is a learning paradigm where learning systems are trained with sequential or streaming tasks. Two notable directions among the recent advances in continual learning with neural networks are ($i$) variational Bayes based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Abhishek Kumar , Sunabha Chatterjee , Piyush Rai

The ability of neural networks to continuously learn and adapt to new tasks while retaining prior knowledge is crucial for many applications. However, current neural networks tend to forget previously learned tasks when trained on new ones,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Sinan Özgür Özgün , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Abhijit Guha Roy , Christian Wachinger

Learning from data sequentially arriving, possibly in a non i.i.d. way, with changing task distribution over time is called continual learning. Much of the work thus far in continual learning focuses on supervised learning and some recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Dhanajit Brahma , Vinay Kumar Verma , Piyush Rai

Continual learning aims to learn knowledge of tasks observed in sequential time steps while mitigating the forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Existing methods were designed to learn a single modality (e.g., image) over time, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hyundong Jin , Eunwoo Kim

Continual learning is conventionally tackled through sequential fine-tuning, a process that, while enabling adaptation, inherently favors plasticity over the stability needed to retain prior knowledge. While existing approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ghada Sokar , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Pablo Samuel Castro , Cordelia Schmid

Learning a sequence of tasks without access to i.i.d. observations is a widely studied form of continual learning (CL) that remains challenging. In principle, Bayesian learning directly applies to this setting, since recursive and one-off…

Continual learning (CL) provides a framework for training models in ever-evolving environments. Although re-occurrence of previously seen objects or tasks is common in real-world problems, the concept of repetition in the data stream is not…

Continual learning (CL) aims to acquire new knowledge while preserving information from previous experiences without forgetting. Though buffer-based methods (i.e., retaining samples from previous tasks) have achieved acceptable performance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Hossein Rezaei , Mohammad Sabokrou

The utility of learning a dynamics/world model of the environment in reinforcement learning has been shown in a many ways. When using neural networks, however, these models suffer catastrophic forgetting when learned in a lifelong or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Nicholas Ketz , Soheil Kolouri , Praveen Pilly

Continual learning aims to learn continuously from a stream of tasks and data in an online-learning fashion, being capable of exploiting what was learned previously to improve current and future tasks while still being able to perform well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Quang Pham , Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Steven C. H Hoi

Modern machine learning systems need to be able to cope with constantly arriving and changing data. Two main areas of research dealing with such scenarios are continual learning and data stream mining. Continual learning focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Łukasz Korycki , Bartosz Krawczyk

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

Class-incremental continual learning is an important area of research, as static deep learning methods fail to adapt to changing tasks and data distributions. In previous works, promising results were achieved using replay and compressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Markus Weißflog , Peter Protzel , Peer Neubert

We develop a new continual meta-learning method to address challenges in sequential multi-task learning. In this setting, the agent's goal is to achieve high reward over any sequence of tasks quickly. Prior meta-reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Glen Berseth , Zhiwei Zhang , Grace Zhang , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine

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

Deep metric learning maps visually similar images onto nearby locations and visually dissimilar images apart from each other in an embedding manifold. The learning process is mainly based on the supplied image negative and positive training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Chang-Hui Liang , Wan-Lei Zhao , Run-Qing Chen

Continual fine-tuning aims to adapt a pre-trained backbone to new tasks sequentially while preserving performance on earlier tasks whose data are no longer available. Existing approaches fall into two categories which include input- and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hang Thi-Thuy Le , Long Minh Bui , Minh Hoang , Trong Nghia Hoang