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Continual learning (CL) empowers AI systems to progressively acquire knowledge from non-stationary data streams. However, catastrophic forgetting remains a critical challenge. In this work, we identify attention drift in Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yue Lu , Xiangyu Zhou , Shizhou Zhang , Yinghui Xing , Guoqiang Liang , Wencong Zhang

Many animals meander in environments and avoid collisions. How the underlying neuronal machinery can yield robust behaviour in a variety of environments remains unclear. In the fly brain, motion-sensitive neurons indicate the presence of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Thorben Schoepe , Ella Janotte , Moritz B. Milde , Olivier J. N. Bertrand , Martin Egelhaaf , Elisabetta Chicca

An intelligent system capable of continual learning is one that can process and extract knowledge from potentially infinitely long streams of pattern vectors. The major challenge that makes crafting such a system difficult is known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Hitesh Vaidya , Travis Desell , Ankur Mali , Alexander Ororbia

We introduce a novel continual learning method based on multifidelity deep neural networks. This method learns the correlation between the output of previously trained models and the desired output of the model on the current training…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Amanda Howard , Yucheng Fu , Panos Stinis

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents capable of learning multiple tasks sequentially with neural networks. One of its main challenging, catastrophic forgetting, is caused by the neural networks non-optimal ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence due to catastrophic forgetting. Large language models (LLMs) are often impractical to frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu

Continual acquisition of novel experience without interfering previously learned knowledge, i.e. continual learning, is critical for artificial neural networks, but limited by catastrophic forgetting. A neural network adjusts its parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Liyuan Wang , Bo Lei , Qian Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

We present a novel class incremental learning approach based on deep neural networks, which continually learns new tasks with limited memory for storing examples in the previous tasks. Our algorithm is based on knowledge distillation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Minsoo Kang , Jaeyoo Park , Bohyung Han

Bloom filters are widely used data structures that compactly represent sets of elements. Querying a Bloom filter reveals if an element is not included in the underlying set or is included with a certain error rate. This membership testing…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Angjela Davitkova , Damjan Gjurovski , Sebastian Michel

Lifelong learning can be viewed as a continuous transfer learning procedure over consecutive tasks, where learning a given task depends on accumulated knowledge --- the so-called knowledge base. Most published work on lifelong learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Changjian Shui , Ihsen Hedhli , Christian Gagné

Neural networks notoriously suffer from the problem of catastrophic forgetting, the phenomenon of forgetting the past knowledge when acquiring new knowledge. Overcoming catastrophic forgetting is of significant importance to emulate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Mehrtash Harandi

Continual learning aims to sequentially learn new tasks without forgetting previous tasks' knowledge (catastrophic forgetting). One factor that can cause forgetting is the interference between the gradients on losses from different tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xueying Bai , Jinghuan Shang , Yifan Sun , Niranjan Balasubramanian

Food image classification systems play a crucial role in health monitoring and diet tracking through image-based dietary assessment techniques. However, existing food recognition systems rely on static datasets characterized by a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Justin Yang , Zhihao Duan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

We envision a continuous collaborative learning system where groups of LLM agents work together to solve reasoning problems, drawing on memory they collectively build to improve performance as they gain experience. This work establishes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Julie Michelman , Nasrin Baratalipour , Matthew Abueg

The ability to learn continually without forgetting the past tasks is a desired attribute for artificial learning systems. Existing approaches to enable such learning in artificial neural networks usually rely on network growth, importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Gobinda Saha , Isha Garg , Kaushik Roy

Continual learning aims to enable machine learning models to learn a general solution space for past and future tasks in a sequential manner. Conventional models tend to forget the knowledge of previous tasks while learning a new task, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Yu Chen , Tom Diethe , Neil Lawrence

This paper investigates a discontinuous neural network which is used as a model of the mammalian olfactory system and can more generally be applied to solve non-negative sparse approximation problems. By inherently limiting the systems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Martijn Arts , Marius Cordts , Monika Gorin , Marc Spehr , Rudolf Mathar

Training models continually to detect and classify objects, from new classes and new domains, remains an open problem. In this work, we conduct a thorough analysis of why and how object detection models forget catastrophically. We focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Eli Verwimp , Kuo Yang , Sarah Parisot , Hong Lanqing , Steven McDonagh , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Matthias De Lange , Tinne Tuytelaars

The fruit fly Drosophila's olfactory circuit has inspired a new locality sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm, FlyHash. In contrast with classical LSH algorithms that produce low dimensional hash codes, FlyHash produces sparse high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Chaitanya K. Ryali , John J. Hopfield , Leopold Grinberg , Dmitry Krotov

Continual learning (CL) - the ability to progressively acquire and integrate new concepts - is essential to intelligent systems to adapt to dynamic environments. However, deep neural networks struggle with catastrophic forgetting (CF) when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Sakshi Choudhary , Kaushik Roy