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This paper introduces a novel perspective to significantly mitigate catastrophic forgetting in continuous learning (CL), which emphasizes models' capacity to preserve existing knowledge and assimilate new information. Current replay-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianshu Zhang , Yankai Fu , Ziheng Peng , Dongyu Yao , Kun He

In continual learning, a system learns from non-stationary data streams or batches without catastrophic forgetting. While this problem has been heavily studied in supervised image classification and reinforcement learning, continual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Continual learning (CL) is one of the most promising trends in recent machine learning research. Its goal is to go beyond classical assumptions in machine learning and develop models and learning strategies that present high robustness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Kamil Faber , Dominik Zurek , Marcin Pietron , Nathalie Japkowicz , Antonio Vergari , Roberto Corizzo

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

Many applications of computer vision require the ability to adapt to novel data distributions after deployment. Adaptation requires algorithms capable of continual learning (CL). Continual learners must be plastic to adapt to novel tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Edison Mucllari , Aswin Raghavan , Zachary Alan Daniels

Continual Learning (CL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that aims to learn from a continuous stream of tasks without forgetting knowledge learned from the previous tasks. To avoid performance decrease caused by forgetting, prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Soobee Lee , Minindu Weerakoon , Jonghyun Choi , Minjia Zhang , Di Wang , Myeongjae Jeon

Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a critical area in machine learning, enabling neural networks to learn from evolving data distributions while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. However, recent research has identified the stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Wojciech Łapacz , Daniel Marczak , Filip Szatkowski , Tomasz Trzciński

Modern machine learning systems need to be able to cope with constantly arriving and changing data. Two main areas of research dealing with such scenarios are continual learning and data stream mining. Continual learning focuses on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Łukasz Korycki , Bartosz Krawczyk

In this article, we propose a novel form of unsupervised learning, continual competitive memory (CCM), as well as a computational framework to unify related neural models that operate under the principles of competition. The resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Alexander G. Ororbia

This paper studies the problem of class-incremental learning (CIL), a core setting within continual learning where a model learns a sequence of tasks, each containing a distinct set of classes. Traditional CIL methods, which do not leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Saleh Momeni , Changnan Xiao , Bing Liu

Supervised contrastive learning (SupCL) has emerged as a prominent approach in representation learning, leveraging both supervised and self-supervised losses. However, achieving an optimal balance between these losses is challenging;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Chungpa Lee , Jeongheon Oh , Kibok Lee , Jy-yong Sohn

A wide variety of methods have been developed to enable lifelong learning in conventional deep neural networks. However, to succeed, these methods require a `batch' of samples to be available and visited multiple times during training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Soumya Banerjee , Vinay Kumar Verma , Toufiq Parag , Maneesh Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Deep learning systems are prone to catastrophic forgetting when learning from a sequence of tasks, as old data from previous tasks is unavailable when learning a new task. To address this, some methods propose replaying data from previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chenyang Wang , Junjun Jiang , Xingyu Hu , Xianming Liu , Xiangyang Ji

Most existing works on continual learning (CL) focus on overcoming the catastrophic forgetting (CF) problem, with dynamic models and replay methods performing exceptionally well. However, since current works tend to assume exclusivity or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Sijia Wang , Yoojin Choi , Junya Chen , Mostafa El-Khamy , Ricardo Henao

Recently, various contrastive learning techniques have been developed to categorize time series data and exhibit promising performance. A general paradigm is to utilize appropriate augmentations and construct feasible positive samples such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Qianying Ren , Dongsheng Luo , Dongjin Song

We focus on a relatively unexplored learning paradigm known as {\em Online Unsupervised Continual Learning} (O-UCL), where an agent receives a non-stationary, unlabeled data stream and progressively learns to identify an increasing number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Cameron Taylor , Vassilis Vassiliades , Constantine Dovrolis

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models excel at understanding image-text relationships but struggle with adapting to new data without forgetting prior knowledge. To address this, models are typically fine-tuned using both new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan King , Gang Li , Bobak Mortazavi , Tianbao Yang

Humans have a remarkable ability to quickly and effectively learn new concepts in a continuous manner without forgetting old knowledge. Though deep learning has made tremendous successes on various computer vision tasks, it faces challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kun Wu , Chengxiang Yin , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Dejun Yang

This paper presents a practical and simple yet efficient method to effectively deal with the catastrophic forgetting for Class Incremental Learning (CIL) tasks. CIL tends to learn new concepts perfectly, but not at the expense of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Bahram Mohammadi , Mohammad Sabokrou

Class-Incremental Learning aims to update a deep classifier to learn new categories while maintaining or improving its accuracy on previously observed classes. Common methods to prevent forgetting previously learned classes include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim , Murat Onur Yildirim , Mert Kilickaya , Joaquin Vanschoren