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Recent years have seen considerable progress in the continual training of deep neural networks, predominantly thanks to approaches that add replay or regularization terms to the loss function to approximate the joint loss over all tasks so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Timm Hess , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

We propose a compression based continual task learning method that can dynamically grow a neural network. Inspired from the recent model compression techniques, we employ compression-aware training and perform low-rank weight approximations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Varigonda Pavan Teja , Priyadarshini Panda

Generalization analyses of deep learning typically assume that the training converges to a fixed point. But, recent results indicate that in practice, the weights of deep neural networks optimized with stochastic gradient descent often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Nisha Chandramoorthy , Andreas Loukas , Khashayar Gatmiry , Stefanie Jegelka

Lifelong Reinforcement Learning (LRL) holds significant potential for addressing sequential tasks, but it still faces considerable challenges. A key difficulty lies in effectively preventing catastrophic forgetting and facilitating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhiyi Huang , Xiaohan Shan , Jianmin Li

The goal of Continual Learning (CL) task is to continuously learn multiple new tasks sequentially while achieving a balance between the plasticity and stability of new and old knowledge. This paper analyzes that this insufficiency arises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hanxi Xiao , Fan Lyu

In this work, we present the first study addressing automatic speech recognition (ASR) for children in an online learning setting. This is particularly important for both child-centric applications and the privacy protection of minors,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Edem Ahadzi , Vishwanath Pratap Singh , Tomi Kinnunen , Ville Hautamaki

A range of defense methods have been proposed to improve the robustness of neural networks on adversarial examples, among which provable defense methods have been demonstrated to be effective to train neural networks that are certifiably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Mengting Xu , Tao Zhang , Zhongnian Li , Daoqiang Zhang

In AI, generalization refers to a model's ability to perform well on out-of-distribution data related to the given task, beyond the data it was trained on. For an AI agent to excel, it must also possess the continual learning capability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zenglin Shi , Jing Jie , Ying Sun , Joo Hwee Lim , Mengmi Zhang

In clinical practice, a segmentation network is often required to continually learn on a sequential data stream from multiple sites rather than a consolidated set, due to the storage cost and privacy restriction. However, during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Jingyang Zhang , Peng Xue , Ran Gu , Yuning Gu , Mianxin Liu , Yongsheng Pan , Zhiming Cui , Jiawei Huang , Lei Ma , Dinggang Shen

Continual learning is inherently a constrained learning problem. The goal is to learn a predictor under a no-forgetting requirement. Although several prior studies formulate it as such, they do not solve the constrained problem explicitly.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Juan Elenter , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Tara Javidi , Alejandro Ribeiro

The strong correlation between neurons or filters can significantly weaken the generalization ability of neural networks. Inspired by the well-known Tammes problem, we propose a novel diversity regularization method to address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zhennan Wang , Canqun Xiang , Wenbin Zou , Chen Xu

Regularization methods allow one to handle a variety of inferential problems where there are more covariates than cases. This allows one to consider a potentially enormous number of covariates for a problem. We exploit the power of these…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-10-03 Yoonkyung Lee , Steven N. MacEachern , Yoonsuh Jung

Continual learning has emerged as an increasingly important challenge across various tasks, including Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In SLU, its objective is to effectively handle the emergence of new concepts and evolving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Muqiao Yang , Xiang Li , Umberto Cappellazzo , Shinji Watanabe , Bhiksha Raj

In forecasting multiple time series, accounting for the individual features of each sequence can be challenging. To address this, modern deep learning methods for time series analysis combine a shared (global) model with local layers,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Luca Butera , Giovanni De Felice , Andrea Cini , Cesare Alippi

Data augmentation is used in machine learning to make the classifier invariant to label-preserving transformations. Usually this invariance is only encouraged implicitly by including a single augmented input during training. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Aleksander Botev , Matthias Bauer , Soham De

Deep learning models have been successfully used in computer vision and many other fields. We propose an unorthodox algorithm for performing quantization of the model parameters. In contrast with popular quantization schemes based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Maxim Naumov , Utku Diril , Jongsoo Park , Benjamin Ray , Jedrzej Jablonski , Andrew Tulloch

In this work, we study the problem of continual learning (CL) where the goal is to learn a model on a sequence of tasks, such that the data from the previous tasks becomes unavailable while learning on the current task data. CL is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Imad Eddine Marouf , Subhankar Roy , Enzo Tartaglione , Stéphane Lathuilière

Regularization is one of the crucial ingredients of deep learning, yet the term regularization has various definitions, and regularization methods are often studied separately from each other. In our work we present a systematic, unifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jan Kukačka , Vladimir Golkov , Daniel Cremers

Artificial neural networks encounter a notable challenge known as continual learning, which involves acquiring knowledge of multiple tasks over an extended period. This challenge arises due to the tendency of previously learned weights to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yonatan Sverdlov , Shimon Ullman

Continual Learning (CL) aims at incrementally learning new tasks without forgetting the knowledge acquired from old ones. Experience Replay (ER) is a simple and effective rehearsal-based strategy, which optimizes the model with current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Zan Gao , Hehe Fan , Mohan Kankanhalli