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Continual learning (CL) is an approach to address catastrophic forgetting, which refers to forgetting previously learned knowledge by neural networks when trained on new tasks or data distributions. The adversarial robustness has decomposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hikmat Khan , Nidhal C. Bouaynaya , Ghulam Rasool

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

Neural networks notoriously suffer from the problem of catastrophic forgetting, the phenomenon of forgetting the past knowledge when acquiring new knowledge. Overcoming catastrophic forgetting is of significant importance to emulate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Mehrtash Harandi

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is widely-accepted in Natural Language Processing as a standard technique for learning multiple related tasks in one model. Training an MTL model requires having the training data for all tasks available at the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sudipta Kar , Giuseppe Castellucci , Simone Filice , Shervin Malmasi , Oleg Rokhlenko

Neural networks are susceptible to catastrophic forgetting. They fail to preserve previously acquired knowledge when adapting to new tasks. Inspired by human associative memory system, we propose a brain-like approach that imitates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yi Gu , Jie Li , Yuting Gao , Ruoxin Chen , Chentao Wu , Feiyang Cai , Chao Wang , Zirui Zhang

Abstract knowledge is deeply grounded in many computer-based applications. An important research area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) deals with the automatic derivation of knowledge from data. Machine learning offers the according…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Benedikt Pfülb

Making neural networks remember over the long term has been a longstanding issue. Although several external memory techniques have been introduced, most focus on retaining recent information in the short term. Regardless of its importance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sangjun Park , JinYeong Bak

Continual learning-the ability to learn many tasks in sequence-is critical for artificial learning systems. Yet standard training methods for deep networks often suffer from catastrophic forgetting, where learning new tasks erases knowledge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-12 Sebastian Lee , Sebastian Goldt , Andrew Saxe

On the one hand, there has been considerable progress on neural network verification in recent years, which makes certifying neural networks a possibility. On the other hand, neural networks in practice are often re-trained over time to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Fine-tuning multilingual foundation models on specific languages often induces catastrophic forgetting, degrading performance on languages unseen in fine-tuning. While this phenomenon is widely-documented, the literature presents fragmented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Danni Liu , Jan Niehues

In the present work we propose a Deep Feed Forward network architecture which can be trained according to a sequential learning paradigm, where tasks of increasing difficulty are learned sequentially, yet avoiding catastrophic forgetting.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Guglielmo Montone , J. Kevin O'Regan , Alexander V. Terekhov

A lifelong learning agent is able to continually learn from potentially infinite streams of pattern sensory data. One major historic difficulty in building agents that adapt in this way is that neural systems struggle to retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Hitesh Vaidya , Travis Desell , Alexander Ororbia

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

Continual learning refers to the ability of a biological or artificial system to seamlessly learn from continuous streams of information while preventing catastrophic forgetting, i.e., a condition in which new incoming information strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 German I. Parisi , 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

Catastrophic forgetting can be a significant problem for institutions that must delete historic data for privacy reasons. For example, hospitals might not be able to retain patient data permanently. But neural networks trained on recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-19 Sebastian Farquhar , Yarin Gal

Existing Continual Learning (CL) approaches have focused on addressing catastrophic forgetting by leveraging regularization methods, replay buffers, and task-specific components. However, realistic CL solutions must be shaped not only by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyung Hong , Theodore P. Pavlic

When learning tasks over time, artificial neural networks suffer from a problem known as Catastrophic Forgetting (CF). This happens when the weights of a network are overwritten during the training of a new task causing forgetting of old…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Julio Hurtado , Alain Raymond-Saez , Alvaro Soto

End-to-end training of Spoken Language Models (SLMs) commonly involves adapting pre-trained text-based Large Language Models (LLMs) to the speech modality through multi-stage training on diverse tasks such as ASR, TTS and spoken question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chi-Yuan Hsiao , Ke-Han Lu , Kai-Wei Chang , Chih-Kai Yang , Wei-Chih Chen , Hung-yi Lee

Neural networks struggle in continual learning settings from catastrophic forgetting: when trials are blocked, new learning can overwrite the learning from previous blocks. Humans learn effectively in these settings, in some cases even…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-07 Jacob Russin , Maryam Zolfaghar , Seongmin A. Park , Erie Boorman , Randall C. O'Reilly