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Catastrophic forgetting is the primary challenge that hinders continual learning, which refers to a neural network ability to sequentially learn multiple tasks while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Elastic Weight Consolidation, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Brandon Shuen Yi Loke , Filippo Quadri , Gabriel Vivanco , Maximilian Casagrande , Saúl Fenollosa

Knowledge graphs (KGs) require continual updates as new information emerges, but neural embedding models suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning new tasks sequentially. We evaluate Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Gaganpreet Jhajj , Fuhua Lin

The biases present in training datasets have been shown to affect models for sentence pair classification tasks such as natural language inference (NLI) and fact verification. While fine-tuning models on additional data has been used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-05 James Thorne , Andreas Vlachos

In this report, we present a theoretical support of the continual learning method \textbf{Elastic Weight Consolidation}, introduced in paper titled `Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks'. Being one of the most cited paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Abhishek Aich

Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) is a technique used in overcoming catastrophic forgetting between successive tasks trained on a neural network. We use this phenomenon of information sharing between tasks for domain adaptation. Training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Avinash Madasu , Vijjini Anvesh Rao

This paper is devoted to the features of the practical application of the Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) method for continual learning of neural networks on several training sets. We will more rigorously compare the well-known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Alexey Kutalev , Alisa Lapina

Weight regularization methods in continual learning (CL) alleviate catastrophic forgetting by assessing and penalizing changes to important model weights. Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) is a foundational and widely used approach within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuan Liu , Xiaobin Chang

Medical AI systems face catastrophic forgetting when deployed in clinical settings, where models must learn new imaging protocols while retaining prior diagnostic capabilities. This challenge is particularly acute for medical…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ziyuan Gao , Philippe Morel

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

Continual learning aims to allow models to learn new tasks without forgetting what has been learned before. This work introduces Elastic Variational Continual Learning with Weight Consolidation (EVCL), a novel hybrid model that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Hunar Batra , Ronald Clark

The ability of neural networks (NNs) to learn and remember multiple tasks sequentially is facing tough challenges in achieving general artificial intelligence due to their catastrophic forgetting (CF) issues. Fortunately, the latest OWM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Yanni Li , Bing Liu , Kaicheng Yao , Xiaoli Kou , Pengfan Lv , Yueshen Xu , Jiangtao Cui

Artificial neural networks are well-known to be susceptible to catastrophic forgetting when continually learning from sequences of tasks. Various continual (or "incremental") learning approaches have been proposed to avoid catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Muhammad Umer , Glenn Dawson , Robi Polikar

Model brittleness is a primary concern when deploying deep learning models in medical settings owing to inter-institution variations, like patient demographics and intra-institution variation, such as multiple scanner types. While simply…

The ability to learn and retain a wide variety of tasks is a hallmark of human intelligence that has inspired research in artificial general intelligence. Continual learning approaches provide a significant step towards achieving this goal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shriraj P. Sawant , Krishna P. Miyapuram

This work investigates continual learning of two segmentation tasks in brain MRI with neural networks. To explore in this context the capabilities of current methods for countering catastrophic forgetting of the first task when a new one is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Chaitanya Baweja , Ben Glocker , Konstantinos Kamnitsas

Catastrophic forgetting remains a major challenge when neural networks learn tasks sequentially. Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) attempts to address this problem by introducing a Bayesian-inspired regularization loss to preserve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Steven Vander Eeckt , Hugo Van hamme

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

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, the ability of a model to learn over time without forgetting previous knowledge and, therefore, be adaptive to new data, is paramount in dynamic fields such as disease outbreak prediction. Deep neural networks, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Saba Aslam , Abdur Rasool , Hongyan Wu , Xiaoli Li

Elastic weight consolidation (EWC, Kirkpatrick et al, 2017) is a novel algorithm designed to safeguard against catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. EWC can be seen as an approximation to Laplace propagation (Eskin et al, 2004), and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-08 Ferenc Huszár
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