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Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a powerful approach for generative image modeling. However, GANs are notorious for their training instability, especially on large-scale, complex datasets. While the recent work of BigGAN…

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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…

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Building learning agents that can progressively learn and accumulate knowledge is the core goal of the continual learning (CL) research field. Unfortunately, training a model on new data usually compromises the performance on past data. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Timothée Lesort , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Diganta Misra , Md Rifat Arefin , Pau Rodríguez , Laurent Charlin , Irina Rish

In this work, we introduce Adapt & Align, a method for continual learning of neural networks by aligning latent representations in generative models. Neural Networks suffer from abrupt loss in performance when retrained with additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Kamil Deja , Bartosz Cywiński , Jan Rybarczyk , Tomasz Trzciński

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

The ability of intelligent agents to learn and remember multiple tasks sequentially is crucial to achieving artificial general intelligence. Many continual learning (CL) methods have been proposed to overcome catastrophic forgetting which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Gehui Shen , Song Zhang , Xiang Chen , Zhi-Hong Deng

Continual acquisition of novel experience without interfering previously learned knowledge, i.e. continual learning, is critical for artificial neural networks, but limited by catastrophic forgetting. A neural network adjusts its parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Liyuan Wang , Bo Lei , Qian Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as the standard method for numerous tasks on graph-structured data such as node classification. However, real-world graphs are often evolving over time and even new classes may arise. We model these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Lukas Galke , Benedikt Franke , Tobias Zielke , Ansgar Scherp

Humans and most animals can learn new tasks without forgetting old ones. However, training artificial neural networks (ANNs) on new tasks typically cause it to forget previously learned tasks. This phenomenon is the result of "catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Nicolas Y. Masse , Gregory D. Grant , David J. Freedman

Continual learning research has shown that neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting "at the output level", but it is debated whether this is also the case at the level of learned representations. Multiple recent studies ascribe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Timm Hess , Eli Verwimp , Gido M. van de Ven , Tinne Tuytelaars

In Continual Learning (CL), a neural network is trained on a stream of data whose distribution changes over time. In this context, the main problem is how to learn new information without forgetting old knowledge (i.e., Catastrophic…

For the goal of strong artificial intelligence that can mimic human-level intelligence, AI systems would have the ability to adapt to ever-changing scenarios and learn new knowledge continuously without forgetting previously acquired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Haozhen Situ , Tianxiang Lu , Minghua Pan , Lvzhou Li

Several families of continual learning techniques have been proposed to alleviate catastrophic interference in deep neural network training on non-stationary data. However, a comprehensive comparison and analysis of limitations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timm Hess , Martin Mundt , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

Continual learning (CL) is a fundamental topic in machine learning, where the goal is to train a model with continuously incoming data and tasks. Due to the memory limit, we cannot store all the historical data, and therefore confront the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weichen Lin , Jiaxiang Chen , Ruomin Huang , Hu Ding

Continual learning refers to a dynamical framework in which a model receives a stream of non-stationary data over time and must adapt to new data while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Unluckily, neural networks fail to meet these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Umberto Cappellazzo , Daniele Falavigna , Alessio Brutti

Training a neural network model can be a lifelong learning process and is a computationally intensive one. A severe adverse effect that may occur in deep neural network models is that they can suffer from catastrophic forgetting during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Xiaofeng Zhu , Feng Liu , Goce Trajcevski , Dingding Wang

Lifelong or continual learning remains to be a challenge for artificial neural network, as it is required to be both stable for preservation of old knowledge and plastic for acquisition of new knowledge. It is common to see previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Song Zhang , Gehui Shen , Jinsong Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng

One major obstacle towards AI is the poor ability of models to solve new problems quicker, and without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. To better understand this issue, we study the problem of continual learning, where the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-14 David Lopez-Paz , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Catastrophic forgetting refers to the tendency that a neural network "forgets" the previous learned knowledge upon learning new tasks. Prior methods have been focused on overcoming this problem on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Huihui Liu , Yiding Yang , Xinchao Wang

Deep neural networks are used in many state-of-the-art systems for machine perception. Once a network is trained to do a specific task, e.g., bird classification, it cannot easily be trained to do new tasks, e.g., incrementally learning to…

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