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Continual learning, involving sequential training on diverse tasks, often faces catastrophic forgetting. While knowledge distillation-based approaches exhibit notable success in preventing forgetting, we pinpoint a limitation in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zenglin Shi , Pei Liu , Tong Su , Yunpeng Wu , Kuien Liu , Yu Song , Meng Wang

Despite significant advancements in active learning and adversarial attacks, the intersection of these two fields remains underexplored, particularly in developing robust active learning frameworks against dynamic adversarial threats. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Ricky Maulana Fajri , Yulong Pei , Lu Yin , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Compact neural networks are essential for affordable and power efficient deep learning solutions. Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) take compactification to the extreme by constraining both weights and activations to two levels, $\{+1, -1\}$.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Vishnu Raj , Nancy Nayak , Sheetal Kalyani

Continuously acquiring new knowledge from a dynamic environment is a fundamental capability for animals, facilitating their survival and ability to address various challenges. This capability is referred to as continual learning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 RunQing Wu , KaiHui Huang , HanYi Zhang , QiHe Liu , GuoJin Yu , JingSong Deng , Fei Ye

Deep learning (DL) has shown state-of-the-art performance in trajectory prediction, which is critical to safe navigation in autonomous driving (AD). However, most DL-based methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting, where adapting to a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yunlong Lin , Zirui Li , Guodong Du , Xiaocong Zhao , Cheng Gong , Xinwei Wang , Chao Lu , Jianwei Gong

Although deep learning performs really well in a wide variety of tasks, it still suffers from catastrophic forgetting -- the tendency of neural networks to forget previously learned information upon learning new tasks where previous data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ankur Singh

A plain well-trained deep learning model often does not have the ability to learn new knowledge without forgetting the previously learned knowledge, which is known as catastrophic forgetting. Here we propose a novel method, SupportNet, to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Yu Li , Zhongxiao Li , Lizhong Ding , Yijie Pan , Chao Huang , Yuhui Hu , Wei Chen , Xin Gao

Pre-training GNNs to extract transferable knowledge and apply it to downstream tasks has become the de facto standard of graph representation learning. Recent works focused on designing self-supervised pre-training tasks to extract useful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Zhe Zhao , Pengkun Wang , Xu Wang , Haibin Wen , Xiaolong Xie , Zhengyang Zhou , Qingfu Zhang , Yang Wang

Deep artificial neural networks have surpassed human-level performance across a diverse array of complex learning tasks, establishing themselves as indispensable tools in both social applications and scientific research. Despite these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-03 Chuanbo Liu , Jin Wang

We introduce the matrix-based Renyi's $\alpha$-order entropy functional to parameterize Tishby et al. information bottleneck (IB) principle with a neural network. We term our methodology Deep Deterministic Information Bottleneck (DIB), as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xi Yu , Shujian Yu , Jose C. Principe

A key stepping stone in the development of an artificial general intelligence (a machine that can perform any task), is the production of agents that can perform multiple tasks at once instead of just one. Unfortunately, canonical methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Joseph Early

Differentiable physical networks provide a simple setting in which learning can be studied through the interaction between trainable parameters and physical equilibrium constraints. We investigate sequential learning in differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maniru Ibrahim

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…

In the past decade, deep neural networks have seen unparalleled improvements that continue to impact every aspect of today's society. With the development of high performance GPUs and the availability of vast amounts of data, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Mohammad Ali Alomrani

We present a variational approximation to the information bottleneck of Tishby et al. (1999). This variational approach allows us to parameterize the information bottleneck model using a neural network and leverage the reparameterization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Alexander A. Alemi , Ian Fischer , Joshua V. Dillon , Kevin Murphy

One goal of general intelligence is to learn novel information without overwriting prior learning. The utility of learning without forgetting (CF) is twofold: first, the system can return to previously learned tasks after learning something…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Rachel A. StClair , William Edward Hahn , Elan Barenholtz

Modern machine learning models are deployed in diverse, non-stationary environments where they must continually adapt to new tasks and evolving knowledge. Continual fine-tuning and in-context learning are costly and brittle, whereas neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Max S. Bennett , Thomas P. Zollo , Richard Zemel

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

Deep learning has proven to be a highly effective tool for a wide range of applications, significantly when leveraging the power of multi-loss functions to optimize performance on multiple criteria simultaneously. However, optimal selection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Amin Golnari , Mostafa Diba

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