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Continual learning aims to alleviate catastrophic forgetting when handling consecutive tasks under non-stationary distributions. Gradient-based meta-learning algorithms have shown the capability to implicitly solve the transfer-interference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xiaohan Zou , Tong Lin

Online continual learning (online CL) studies the problem of learning sequential tasks from an online data stream without task boundaries, aiming to adapt to new data while alleviating catastrophic forgetting on the past tasks. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zhen Wang , Liu Liu , Yajing Kong , Jiaxian Guo , Dacheng Tao

Continual learning (CL) aims to enable learning systems to acquire new knowledge constantly without forgetting previously learned information. CL faces the challenge of mitigating catastrophic forgetting while maintaining interpretability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lu Yu , Haoyu Han , Zhe Tao , Hantao Yao , Changsheng Xu

Continual learning (CL) is concerned with learning multiple tasks sequentially without forgetting previously learned tasks. Despite substantial empirical advances over recent years, the theoretical development of CL remains in its infancy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Liangzu Peng , Uday Kiran Reddy Tadipatri , Ziqing Xu , Eric Eaton , René Vidal

A growing body of research in continual learning focuses on the catastrophic forgetting problem. While many attempts have been made to alleviate this problem, the majority of the methods assume a single model in the continual learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Thang Doan , Seyed Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar

The goal of continual learning (CL) is to learn a sequence of tasks without suffering from the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting. Previous work has shown that leveraging memory in the form of a replay buffer can reduce performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sayna Ebrahimi , Suzanne Petryk , Akash Gokul , William Gan , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Marcus Rohrbach , Trevor Darrell

Continual learning (CL) enables deep neural networks to adapt to ever-changing data distributions. In practice, there may be scenarios where annotation is costly, leading to active continual learning (ACL), which performs active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jaehyun Park , Dongmin Park , Jae-Gil Lee

We introduce Continual Learning via Neural Pruning (CLNP), a new method aimed at lifelong learning in fixed capacity models based on neuronal model sparsification. In this method, subsequent tasks are trained using the inactive neurons and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Siavash Golkar , Michael Kagan , Kyunghyun Cho

One notable weakness of current machine learning algorithms is the poor ability of models to solve new problems without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. The Continual Learning paradigm has emerged as a protocol to systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Heinke Hihn , Daniel A. Braun

Continual reinforcement learning (CRL) refers to a naturalistic setting where an agent needs to endlessly evolve, by trial and error, to solve multiple tasks that are presented sequentially. One of the largest obstacles to CRL is that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zichen Liu , Guoji Fu , Chao Du , Wee Sun Lee , Min Lin

Continual learning in online scenario aims to learn a sequence of new tasks from data stream using each data only once for training, which is more realistic than in offline mode assuming data from new task are all available. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Continual learning (CL) has been a critical topic in contemporary deep neural network applications, where higher levels of both forward and backward transfer are desirable for an effective CL performance. Existing CL strategies primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yanru Wu , Jianning Wang , Xiangyu Chen , Enming Zhang , Yang Tan , Hanbing Liu , Yang Li

Continual Learning (CL) considers the problem of training an agent sequentially on a set of tasks while seeking to retain performance on all previous tasks. A key challenge in CL is catastrophic forgetting, which arises when performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Samuel Kessler , Jack Parker-Holder , Philip Ball , Stefan Zohren , Stephen J. Roberts

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models sequentially on multiple tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Recent advances in large pre-trained models (LPMs) and model merging techniques, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kei Hiroshima , Kento Uchida , Shinichi Shirakawa

Continual Learning (CL) investigates how to train Deep Networks on a stream of tasks without incurring forgetting. CL settings proposed in literature assume that every incoming example is paired with ground-truth annotations. However, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-30 Matteo Boschini , Pietro Buzzega , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

In continual learning (CL), an AI agent (e.g., autonomous vehicles or robotics) learns from non-stationary data streams under dynamic environments. For the practical deployment of such applications, it is important to guarantee robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Minsu Kim , Walid Saad

We introduce EfficientCL, a memory-efficient continual pretraining method that applies contrastive learning with novel data augmentation and curriculum learning. For data augmentation, we stack two types of operation sequentially: cutoff…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Seonghyeon Ye , Jiseon Kim , Alice Oh

The continual learning problem involves training models with limited capacity to perform well on a set of an unknown number of sequentially arriving tasks. While meta-learning shows great potential for reducing interference between old and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Gunshi Gupta , Karmesh Yadav , Liam Paull

Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Aurelio Uncini

Deep neural networks have shown remarkable performance when trained on independent and identically distributed data from a fixed set of classes. However, in real-world scenarios, it can be desirable to train models on a continuous stream of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Nicolas Michel , Giovanni Chierchia , Romain Negrel , Jean-François Bercher , Toshihiko Yamasaki