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Continual learning (CL) is a learning paradigm that emulates the human capability of learning and accumulating knowledge continually without forgetting the previously learned knowledge and also transferring the learned knowledge to help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

Continual learning (CL) is the sub-field of machine learning concerned with accumulating knowledge in dynamic environments. So far, CL research has mainly focused on incremental classification tasks, where models learn to classify new…

We introduce \textbf{Knowledge Swapping}, a novel task designed to selectively regulate knowledge of a pretrained model by enabling the forgetting of user\-specified information, retaining essential knowledge, and acquiring new knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Mingyu Xing , Lechao Cheng , Shengeng Tang , Yaxiong Wang , Zhun Zhong , Meng Wang

Deep neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting, where performance on previous tasks degrades after training on a new task. This issue arises due to the model's tendency to overwrite previously acquired knowledge with new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Lama Alssum , Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud , Motasem Alfarra , Juan C Leon Alcazar , Bernard Ghanem

Continual Learning (CL) and Streaming Machine Learning (SML) study the ability of agents to learn from a stream of non-stationary data. Despite sharing some similarities, they address different and complementary challenges. While SML…

Lifelong learning is challenging for deep neural networks due to their susceptibility to catastrophic forgetting. Catastrophic forgetting occurs when a trained network is not able to maintain its ability to accomplish previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Mengyao Zhai , Lei Chen , Fred Tung , Jiawei He , Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori

Deep networks allow to obtain outstanding results in semantic segmentation, however they need to be trained in a single shot with a large amount of data. Continual learning settings where new classes are learned in incremental steps and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Andrea Maracani , Umberto Michieli , Marco Toldo , Pietro Zanuttigh

Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel on fixed datasets but struggle with incremental and shifting data in real-world scenarios. Continual learning addresses this challenge by allowing models to learn from new data while retaining previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Lu Yu , Zhe Tao , Dipam Goswami , Hantao Yao , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Joost Van de Weijer , Changsheng Xu

Machine unlearning--the ability to remove designated concepts from a pre-trained model--has advanced rapidly, particularly for text-to-image diffusion models. However, existing methods typically assume that unlearning requests arrive all at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Justin Lee , Zheda Mai , Jinsu Yoo , Chongyu Fan , Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao

Lifelong learning aims to develop machine learning systems that can learn new tasks while preserving the performance on previous learned tasks. In this paper we present a method to overcome catastrophic forgetting on convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Abel S. Zacarias , Luís A. Alexandre

Imitation learning enables robots to learn and replicate human behavior from training data. Recent advances in machine learning enable end-to-end learning approaches that directly process high-dimensional observation data, such as images.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Koki Yamane , Sho Sakaino , Toshiaki Tsuji

Continual learning aims to learn a sequence of tasks by leveraging the knowledge acquired in the past in an online-learning manner while being able to perform well on all previous tasks, this ability is crucial to the artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Ya-nan Han , Jian-wei Liu

This paper presents a novel learning analytics method: Transition Network Analysis (TNA), a method that integrates Stochastic Process Mining and probabilistic graph representation to model, visualize, and identify transition patterns in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Mohammed Saqr , Sonsoles López-Pernas , Tiina Törmänen , Rogers Kaliisa , Kamila Misiejuk , Santtu Tikka

In this paper, we consider the problem of fine-grained image retrieval in an incremental setting, when new categories are added over time. On the one hand, repeatedly training the representation on the extended dataset is time-consuming. On…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Wei Chen , Yu Liu , Weiping Wang , Tinne Tuytelaars , Erwin M. Bakker , Michael Lew

Continual learning requires incremental compatibility with a sequence of tasks. However, the design of model architecture remains an open question: In general, learning all tasks with a shared set of parameters suffers from severe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Liyuan Wang , Xingxing Zhang , Qian Li , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

Using neural networks in practical settings would benefit from the ability of the networks to learn new tasks throughout their lifetimes without forgetting the previous tasks. This ability is limited in the current deep neural networks by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Risto Vuorio , Dong-Yeon Cho , Daejoong Kim , Jiwon Kim

Artificial intelligence systems in critical fields like autonomous driving and medical imaging analysis often continually learn new tasks using a shared stream of input data. For instance, after learning to detect traffic signs, a model may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hanchen David Wang , Siwoo Bae , Zirong Chen , Meiyi Ma

Continual learning (CL) has two main objectives: preventing catastrophic forgetting (CF) and encouraging knowledge transfer (KT). The existing literature mainly focused on overcoming CF. Some work has also been done on KT when the tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu , Wenhan Xiong , Asli Celikyilmaz , Haoran Li

The field of Natural Language Processing has experienced a dramatic leap in capabilities with the recent introduction of huge Language Models. Despite this success, natural language problems that involve several compounded steps are still…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Noam Wies , Yoav Levine , Amnon Shashua

In this paper, we consider the problem of learning functions over sets, i.e., functions that are invariant to permutations of input set items. Recent approaches of pooling individual element embeddings can necessitate extremely large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Chirag Pabbaraju , Prateek Jain