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Catastrophic forgetting is a major problem in continual learning, and lots of approaches arise to reduce it. However, most of them are evaluated through task accuracy, which ignores the internal model structure. Recent research suggests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yunqin Zhu , Jun Jin

Catastrophic forgetting/interference is a critical problem for lifelong learning machines, which impedes the agents from maintaining their previously learned knowledge while learning new tasks. Neural networks, in particular, suffer plenty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Soheil Kolouri , Nicholas Ketz , Xinyun Zou , Jeffrey Krichmar , Praveen Pilly

Continual learning is considered a promising step towards next-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI), where deep neural networks (DNNs) make decisions by continuously learning a sequence of different tasks akin to human learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Yuyang Gao , Giorgio A. Ascoli , Liang Zhao

Deep neural networks are susceptible to catastrophic forgetting when trained on sequential tasks. Various continual learning (CL) methods often rely on exemplar buffers or/and network expansion for balancing model stability and plasticity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Depeng Li , Tianqi Wang , Junwei Chen , Qining Ren , Kenji Kawaguchi , Zhigang Zeng

Machine learning is evolving towards high-order models that necessitate pre-training on extensive datasets, a process associated with significant overheads. Traditional models, despite having pre-trained weights, are becoming obsolete due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Chenhui Xu , Xinyao Wang , Fuxun Yu , Jinjun Xiong , Xiang Chen

Data rehearsal has emerged as a leading approach for mitigating catastrophic forgetting in Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL). However, existing work remains confined to policy gradient frameworks, regularizing only actors due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Benjamin Poole , Andrew Quinn , Li Yang , Minwoo Lee

This paper considers incremental few-shot learning, which requires a model to continually recognize new categories with only a few examples provided. Our study shows that existing methods severely suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Guangyuan Shi , Jiaxin Chen , Wenlong Zhang , Li-Ming Zhan , Xiao-Ming Wu

In general class-incremental learning, researchers typically use sample sets as a tool to avoid catastrophic forgetting during continuous learning. At the same time, researchers have also noted the differences between class-incremental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Weimin Yin , Bin Chen adn Chunzhao Xie , Zhenhao Tan

Convolutional neural networks are capable of learning powerful representational spaces, which are necessary for tackling complex learning tasks. However, due to the model capacity required to capture such representations, they are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Terrance DeVries , Graham W. Taylor

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

In some studies \citep[e.g.,][]{zhang2016understanding} of deep learning, it is observed that over-parametrized deep neural networks achieve a small testing error even when the training error is almost zero. Despite numerous works towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-25 Yue Xing , Qifan Song , Guang Cheng

Inspired by the diversity of biological neurons, quadratic artificial neurons can play an important role in deep learning models. The type of quadratic neurons of our interest replaces the inner-product operation in the conventional neuron…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Feng-Lei Fan , Mengzhou Li , Fei Wang , Rongjie Lai , Ge Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often suffer from "catastrophic forgetting" during incremental learning (IL) --- an abrupt degradation of performance on the original set of classes when the training objective is adapted to a newly added set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Junting Zhang , Jie Zhang , Shalini Ghosh , Dawei Li , Serafettin Tasci , Larry Heck , Heming Zhang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Deep neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when continually learning new concepts. In this paper, we analyze this problem from a data imbalance point of view. We argue that the imbalance between old task and new task data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Leyuan Wang , Liuyu Xiang , Yunlong Wang , Huijia Wu , Zhaofeng He

In recent years, deep neural networks have found success in replicating human-level cognitive skills, yet they suffer from several major obstacles. One significant limitation is the inability to learn new tasks without forgetting previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Gabrielle K. Liu

Large Language Models demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities, which can be effectively compressed into smaller models. However, existing datasets and fine-tuning approaches still face challenges that lead to catastrophic forgetting,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lanxue Zhang , Yuqiang Xie , Fang Fang , Fanglong Dong , Rui Liu , Yanan Cao

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have two key deficiencies, their dependence on high precision computing and their inability to perform sequential learning, that is, when a DNN is trained on a first task and the same DNN is trained on the next…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ruthvik Vaila , John Chiasson , Vishal Saxena

Catastrophic forgetting remains a fundamental challenge for neural networks when tasks are trained sequentially. In this work, we reformulate continual learning as a control problem where learning and preservation signals compete within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Sander de Haan , Yassine Taoudi-Benchekroun , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Benjamin F. Grewe

Catastrophic forgetting and capacity saturation are the central challenges of any parametric lifelong learning system. In this work, we study these challenges in the context of sequential supervised learning with an emphasis on recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Shagun Sodhani , Sarath Chandar , Yoshua Bengio

Deep neural networks excel at learning the training data, but often provide incorrect and confident predictions when evaluated on slightly different test examples. This includes distribution shifts, outliers, and adversarial examples. To…