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One of the key differences between the learning mechanism of humans and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) is the ability of humans to learn one task at a time. ANNs, on the other hand, can only learn multiple tasks simultaneously. Any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Khurram Javed , Faisal Shafait

Continual learning constrains models to learn new tasks over time without forgetting what they have already learned. A key challenge in this setting is catastrophic forgetting, where learning new information causes the model to lose its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Federico Di Valerio , Michela Proietti , Alessio Ragno , Roberto Capobianco

Depth estimation and scene parsing are two particularly important tasks in visual scene understanding. In this paper we tackle the problem of simultaneous depth estimation and scene parsing in a joint CNN. The task can be typically treated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Dan Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang , Nicu Sebe

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to solve the neural networks' catastrophic forgetting problem, which refers to the fact that once the network updates on a new task, its performance on previously-learned tasks drops dramatically. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Libo Huang , Yan Zeng , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

Metric learning networks are used to compute image embeddings, which are widely used in many applications such as image retrieval and face recognition. In this paper, we propose to use network distillation to efficiently compute image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Lu Yu , Vacit Oguz Yazici , Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Yongmei Cheng , Arnau Ramisa

Masked autoencoders have become popular training paradigms for self-supervised visual representation learning. These models randomly mask a portion of the input and reconstruct the masked portion according to the target representations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xingbin Liu , Jinghao Zhou , Tao Kong , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

This paper is concerned with self-supervised learning for small models. The problem is motivated by our empirical studies that while the widely used contrastive self-supervised learning method has shown great progress on large model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

An ultimate objective in continual learning is to preserve knowledge learned in preceding tasks while learning new tasks. To mitigate forgetting prior knowledge, we propose a novel knowledge distillation technique that takes into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Kaushik Roy , Christian Simon , Peyman Moghadam , Mehrtash Harandi

Humans can resort to long-form inspection to build intuition on predicting the 3D configurations of unseen objects. The more we observe the object motion, the better we get at predicting its 3D state immediately. Existing systems either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Mingxuan Wu , Huang Huang , Justin Kerr , Chung Min Kim , Anthony Zhang , Brent Yi , Angjoo Kanazawa

Deep metric learning aims to transform input data into an embedding space, where similar samples are close while dissimilar samples are far apart from each other. In practice, samples of new categories arrive incrementally, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Gao-Dong Liu , Wan-Lei Zhao , Jie Zhao

The field of Continual Learning (CL) has inspired numerous researchers over the years, leading to increasingly advanced countermeasures to the issue of catastrophic forgetting. Most studies have focused on the single-class scenario, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Martin Menabue , Emanuele Frascaroli , Matteo Boschini , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents that are capable of learning continually a sequence of tasks, building on previously learned knowledge. A key challenge in this learning paradigm is catastrophically forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

In recent years, online distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for adapting real-time deep neural networks on the fly using a slow, but accurate teacher model. However, a major challenge in online distillation is catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Joachim Houyon , Anthony Cioppa , Yasir Ghunaim , Motasem Alfarra , Anaïs Halin , Maxim Henry , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Learning from demonstration has been widely studied in machine learning but becomes challenging when the demonstrated trajectories are unstructured and follow different objectives. This short-paper proposes PODNet, Plannable Option…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Ritwik Bera , Vinicius G. Goecks , Gregory M. Gremillion , John Valasek , Nicholas R. Waytowich

A fundamental and challenging problem in deep learning is catastrophic forgetting, i.e. the tendency of neural networks to fail to preserve the knowledge acquired from old tasks when learning new tasks. This problem has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Guanglei Yang , Enrico Fini , Dan Xu , Paolo Rota , Mingli Ding , Moin Nabi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci

Dataset distillation provides an effective approach to reduce memory and computational costs by optimizing a compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the full original. However, for large-scale datasets and complex deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinhao Zhong , Shuoyang Sun , Xulin Gu , Zhaoyang Xu , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang , Bin Chen

Recent advances in object detection have benefited significantly from rapid developments in deep neural networks. However, neural networks suffer from the well-known issue of catastrophic forgetting, which makes continual or lifelong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Wang Zhou , Shiyu Chang , Norma Sosa , Hendrik Hamann , David Cox

In self-supervised learning, self-distilled methods have shown impressive performance, learning representations useful for downstream tasks and even displaying emergent properties. However, state-of-the-art methods usually rely on ensembles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Esteban Rodríguez-Betancourt , Edgar Casasola-Murillo

The rise of deep learning has greatly advanced human behavior monitoring using wearable sensors, particularly human activity recognition (HAR). While deep models have been widely studied, most assume stationary data distributions - an…