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A long-term goal of AI is to produce agents that can learn a diversity of skills throughout their lifetimes and continuously improve those skills via experience. A longstanding obstacle towards that goal is catastrophic forgetting, which is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Roby Velez , Jeff Clune

Learning physical dynamics in a series of non-stationary environments is a challenging but essential task for model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) with visual inputs. It requires the agent to consistently adapt to novel tasks without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Minting Pan , Wendong Zhang , Geng Chen , Xiangming Zhu , Siyu Gao , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

In computer vision, data shift has proven to be a major barrier for safe and robust deep learning applications. In medical applications, histopathological images are often associated with data shift and they are hardly available. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Nicolas Dumas , Valentin Derangère , Laurent Arnould , Sylvain Ladoire , Louis-Oscar Morel , Nathan Vinçon

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models can be specialized by domain adaptation, often involving fine-tuning on a dataset of interest. This process risks catastrophic forgetting: rapid loss of generic translation quality. Forgetting has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Danielle Saunders , Steve DeNeefe

With the increasing popularity of deep learning on edge devices, compressing large neural networks to meet the hardware requirements of resource-constrained devices became a significant research direction. Numerous compression methodologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kuluhan Binici , Nam Trung Pham , Tulika Mitra , Karianto Leman

Neural networks are susceptible to catastrophic forgetting. They fail to preserve previously acquired knowledge when adapting to new tasks. Inspired by human associative memory system, we propose a brain-like approach that imitates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yi Gu , Jie Li , Yuting Gao , Ruoxin Chen , Chentao Wu , Feiyang Cai , Chao Wang , Zirui Zhang

Catastrophic forgetting remains a central challenge in continual learning, where models are required to integrate new knowledge over time without losing what they have previously learned. In prior work, we introduced Cobweb/4V, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Nicki Barari , Edward Kim , Christopher MacLellan

As massive medical data become available with an increasing number of scans, expanding classes, and varying sources, prevalent training paradigms -- where AI is trained with multiple passes over fixed, finite datasets -- face significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Yu-Cheng Chou , Zongwei Zhou , Alan Yuille

One of the objectives of continual learning is to prevent catastrophic forgetting in learning multiple tasks sequentially, and the existing solutions have been driven by the conceptualization of the plasticity-stability dilemma. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Seungyub Han , Yeongmo Kim , Taehyun Cho , Jungwoo Lee

Large language models exhibit remarkable performance across diverse tasks through pre-training and fine-tuning paradigms. However, continual fine-tuning on sequential tasks induces catastrophic forgetting, where newly acquired knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov

Humans can learn concepts or recognize items from just a handful of examples, while machines require many more samples to perform the same task. In this paper, we build a computational model to investigate the possibility of this kind of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Wen-Chieh Fang , Yi-ting Chiang

A lifelong learning agent is able to continually learn from potentially infinite streams of pattern sensory data. One major historic difficulty in building agents that adapt in this way is that neural systems struggle to retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Hitesh Vaidya , Travis Desell , Alexander Ororbia

Class incremental learning consists in training discriminative models to classify an increasing number of classes over time. However, doing so using only the newly added class data leads to the known problem of catastrophic forgetting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Quentin Ferdinand , Gilles Le Chenadec , Benoit Clement , Panagiotis Papadakis , Quentin Oliveau

In Continual learning (CL) balancing effective adaptation while combating catastrophic forgetting is a central challenge. Many of the recent best-performing methods utilize various forms of prior task data, e.g. a replay buffer, to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Nader Asadi , MohammadReza Davari , Sudhir Mudur , Rahaf Aljundi , Eugene Belilovsky

The creation of large-scale open domain reading comprehension data sets in recent years has enabled the development of end-to-end neural comprehension models with promising results. To use these models for domains with limited training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Y. Xu , X. Zhong , A. J. J. Yepes , J. H. Lau

Existing Continual Learning (CL) approaches have focused on addressing catastrophic forgetting by leveraging regularization methods, replay buffers, and task-specific components. However, realistic CL solutions must be shaped not only by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyung Hong , Theodore P. Pavlic

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is widely used for studying and diagnosing brain disorders, with functional connectivity (FC) matrices providing powerful representations of large-scale neural interactions. However, existing…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Qianyu Chen , Shujian Yu

In the present era of deep learning, continual learning research is mainly focused on mitigating forgetting when training a neural network with stochastic gradient descent on a non-stationary stream of data. On the other hand, in the more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Soochan Lee , Hyeonseong Jeon , Jaehyeon Son , Gunhee Kim

Deep Reinforcement Learning agents often suffer from catastrophic forgetting, forgetting previously found solutions in parts of the input space when training on new data. Replay Memories are a common solution to the problem, decorrelating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Muhammad Burhan Hafez , Tilman Immisch , Tom Weber , Stefan Wermter

Contextual memory integration remains a high challenge in the development of language models, particularly in tasks that require maintaining coherence over extended sequences. Traditional approaches, such as self-attention mechanisms and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 George Applegarth , Christian Weatherstone , Maximilian Hollingsworth , Henry Middlebrook , Marcus Irvin