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Continual learning (CL) aims to train models sequentially over multiple domains without forgetting previously learned knowledge. However, existing CL methods optimize for in-domain performance and are therefore prone to learning spurious,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Janetzky , Tobias Schlagenhauf , Stefan Feuerriegel

Continual learning (CL) refers to the ability to continuously learn and accumulate new knowledge while retaining useful information from past experiences. Although numerous CL methods have been proposed in recent years, it is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-27 Hanwen Xing , Christopher Yau

Continual learning (CL) is a setting in which an agent has to learn from an incoming stream of data sequentially. CL performance evaluates the model's ability to continually learn and solve new problems with incremental available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Josh Andle , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Continual learning (CL) studies how models acquire tasks sequentially while retaining previously learned knowledge. Despite substantial progress in benchmarking CL methods, comparative evaluations typically keep the fine-tuning regime…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Paul-Tiberiu Iordache , Elena Burceanu

Curriculum learning in reinforcement learning is used to shape exploration by presenting the agent with increasingly complex tasks. The idea of curriculum learning has been largely applied in both animal training and pedagogy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Francesco Foglino , Christiano Coletto Christakou , Matteo Leonetti

Continual Learning (CL) refers to a learning setup where data is non stationary and the model has to learn without forgetting existing knowledge. The study of CL for sequential patterns revolves around trained recurrent networks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Andrea Cossu , Davide Bacciu , Antonio Carta , Claudio Gallicchio , Vincenzo Lomonaco

We introduce a curriculum learning approach to adapt generic neural machine translation models to a specific domain. Samples are grouped by their similarities to the domain of interest and each group is fed to the training algorithm with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Xuan Zhang , Pamela Shapiro , Gaurav Kumar , Paul McNamee , Marine Carpuat , Kevin Duh

Humans can learn incrementally, whereas neural networks forget previously acquired information catastrophically. Continual Learning (CL) approaches seek to bridge this gap by facilitating the transfer of knowledge to both previous tasks…

Neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) aims at designing problem-independent and efficient neural network-based strategies for solving combinatorial problems. The field recently experienced growth by successfully adapting architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Michal Lisicki , Arash Afkanpour , Graham W. Taylor

Continual learning (CL) is a branch of machine learning that aims to enable agents to adapt and generalise previously learned abilities so that these can be reapplied to new tasks or environments. This is particularly useful in multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Kim N. Nolle , Ivana Dusparic , Rhodri Cusack , Vinny Cahill

Existing literature in Continual Learning (CL) has focused on overcoming catastrophic forgetting, the inability of the learner to recall how to perform tasks observed in the past. There are however other desirable properties of a CL system,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tom Veniat , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Curriculum Learning (CL) aims to improve the outcome of model training by estimating the difficulty of samples and scheduling them accordingly. In NLP, difficulty is commonly approximated using task-agnostic linguistic heuristics or human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Vanessa Toborek , Sebastian Müller , Christian Bauckhage

Meta continual learning algorithms seek to train a model when faced with similar tasks observed in a sequential manner. Despite promising methodological advancements, there is a lack of theoretical frameworks that enable analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 R. Krishnan , Prasanna Balaprakash

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a learning paradigm in machine learning and its aim is to leverage useful information contained in multiple related tasks to help improve the generalization performance of all the tasks. In this paper, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yu Zhang , Qiang Yang

Across machine learning, the use of curricula has shown strong empirical potential to improve learning from data by avoiding local optima of training objectives. For reinforcement learning (RL), curricula are especially interesting, as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Pascal Klink , Hany Abdulsamad , Boris Belousov , Carlo D'Eramo , Jan Peters , Joni Pajarinen

We propose an adaptation of the curriculum training framework, applicable to state-of-the-art meta learning techniques for few-shot classification. Curriculum-based training popularly attempts to mimic human learning by progressively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Emmanouil Stergiadis , Priyanka Agrawal , Oliver Squire

Recent advances in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) allow agents to coordinate their behaviors in complex environments. However, common MARL algorithms still suffer from scalability and sparse reward issues. One promising approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Rundong Wang , Longtao Zheng , Wei Qiu , Bowei He , Bo An , Zinovi Rabinovich , Yujing Hu , Yingfeng Chen , Tangjie Lv , Changjie Fan

Currently, multilingual machine translation is receiving more and more attention since it brings better performance for low resource languages (LRLs) and saves more space. However, existing multilingual machine translation models face a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Mingliang Zhang , Fandong Meng , Yunhai Tong , Jie Zhou

Acquiring new knowledge without forgetting what has been learned in a sequence of tasks is the central focus of continual learning (CL). While tasks arrive sequentially, the training data are often prepared and annotated independently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Thuy-Trang Vu , Shahram Khadivi , Mahsa Ghorbanali , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari

Curriculum learning (CL) mimics human learning, in which easy samples are learned first, followed by harder samples, and has become an effective method for training deep networks. However, many existing automatic CL methods maintain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Wensheng Li , Yichao Tian , Hao Wang , Ruifeng Zhou , Hanting Guan , Chao Zhang , Dacheng Tao