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We propose a Bayesian neural network-based continual learning algorithm using Variational Inference, aiming to overcome several drawbacks of existing methods. Specifically, in continual learning scenarios, storing network parameters at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Sanchar Palit , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri

This paper is about regularizing deep convolutional networks (CNNs) based on an adaptive framework for transfer learning with limited training data in the target domain. Recent advances of CNN regularization in this context are commonly due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Yang Zhong , Atsuto Maki

How to improve discriminative feature learning is central in classification. Existing works address this problem by explicitly increasing inter-class separability and intra-class similarity, whether by constructing positive and negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Qingsong Zhao , Yi Wang , Shuguang Dou , Chen Gong , Yin Wang , Cairong Zhao

Generalization remains a significant challenge in visual classification tasks, particularly in handling unknown classes in real-world applications. Existing research focuses on the class discovery paradigm, which tends to favor known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhaorui Tan , Yijie Hu , Xi Yang , Qiufeng Wang , Anh Nguyen , Kaizhu Huang

Regularization-based methods are beneficial to alleviate the catastrophic forgetting problem in class-incremental learning. With the absence of old task images, they often assume that old knowledge is well preserved if the classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Xiaomeng Xin , Yiran Zhong , Yunzhong Hou , Jinjun Wang , Liang Zheng

Self-supervised video representation learning has been shown to effectively improve downstream tasks such as video retrieval and action recognition. In this paper, we present the Cascade Positive Retrieval (CPR) that successively mines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Cheng-En Wu , Farley Lai , Yu Hen Hu , Asim Kadav

Consistency regularization is a commonly used practice to encourage the model to generate consistent representation from distorted input features and improve model generalization. It shows significant improvement on various speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Cindy Tseng , Yun Tang , Vijendra Raj Apsingekar

Catastrophic forgetting is one of the most critical challenges in Continual Learning (CL). Recent approaches tackle this problem by projecting the gradient update orthogonal to the gradient subspace of existing tasks. While the results are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Cheng Chen , Ji Zhang , Jingkuan Song , Lianli Gao

While biological intelligence grows organically as new knowledge is gathered throughout life, Artificial Neural Networks forget catastrophically whenever they face a changing training data distribution. Rehearsal-based Continual Learning…

A simulation is useful when the phenomenon of interest is either expensive to regenerate or irreproducible with the same context. Recently, Bayesian inference on the distribution of the simulation input parameter has been implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Dongjun Kim , Kyungwoo Song , Seungjae Shin , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon , Weonyoung Joo

Learning-based approaches, notably Reinforcement Learning (RL), have shown promise for solving optimal control tasks without explicit system models. However, these approaches are often sample-inefficient, sensitive to reward design and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Lihan Lian , Uduak Inyang-Udoh

With the explosive growth of data, continual learning capability is increasingly important for neural networks. Due to catastrophic forgetting, neural networks inevitably forget the knowledge of old tasks after learning new ones. In visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Shengyang Huang , Jianwen Mo

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model has exhibited remarkable efficacy in establishing cross-modal connections between texts and images, yielding impressive performance across a broad spectrum of downstream applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Ke Yu , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

We propose an effective regularization strategy (CW-TaLaR) for solving continual learning problems. It uses a penalizing term expressed by the Cramer-Wold distance between two probability distributions defined on a target layer of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Marcin Mazur , Łukasz Pustelnik , Szymon Knop , Patryk Pagacz , Przemysław Spurek

Dropout is a very effective way of regularizing neural networks. Stochastically "dropping out" units with a certain probability discourages over-specific co-adaptations of feature detectors, preventing overfitting and improving network…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Pietro Morerio , Jacopo Cavazza , Riccardo Volpi , Rene Vidal , Vittorio Murino

In the past, continual learning (CL) was mostly concerned with the problem of catastrophic forgetting in neural networks, that arises when incrementally learning a sequence of tasks. Current CL methods function within the confines of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shishir Muralidhara , Didier Stricker , René Schuster

Continual learning (CL) aims to incrementally learn different tasks (such as classification) in a non-stationary data stream without forgetting old ones. Most CL works focus on tackling catastrophic forgetting under a learning-from-scratch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mark D. McDonnell , Dong Gong , Amin Parveneh , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Anton van den Hengel

In this paper, we propose a continual learning (CL) technique that is beneficial to sequential task learners by improving their retained accuracy and reducing catastrophic forgetting. The principal target of our approach is the automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ammar Shaker , Shujian Yu , Francesco Alesiani

Recent self-supervised learning methods are able to learn high-quality image representations and are closing the gap with supervised approaches. However, these methods are unable to acquire new knowledge incrementally -- they are, in fact,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Alex Gomez-Villa , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Lu Yu , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Joost van de Weijer

Environments with procedurally generated content serve as important benchmarks for testing systematic generalization in deep reinforcement learning. In this setting, each level is an algorithmically created environment instance with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Minqi Jiang , Edward Grefenstette , Tim Rocktäschel