English
Related papers

Related papers: In Defense of the Learning Without Forgetting for …

200 papers

The ability of a model to learn continually can be empirically assessed in different continual learning scenarios. Each scenario defines the constraints and the opportunities of the learning environment. Here, we challenge the current trend…

The ability to sequentially learn multiple tasks without forgetting is a key skill of biological brains, whereas it represents a major challenge to the field of deep learning. To avoid catastrophic forgetting, various continual learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Francesco Lässig , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Martino Sorbaro , Benjamin F. Grewe

Deep neural networks are known to suffer the catastrophic forgetting problem, where they tend to forget the knowledge from the previous tasks when sequentially learning new tasks. Such failure hinders the application of deep learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Junfeng Wen , Yanshuai Cao , Ruitong Huang

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) often suffer from catastrophic forgetting in continual learning: after learning new tasks sequentially, they perform worse on earlier tasks. Existing methods mitigate catastrophic forgetting by data replay,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yazheng Liu , Yuxuan Wan , Rui Xu , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie , Hui Xiong

Continual learning (CL) aims to constantly learn new knowledge over time while avoiding catastrophic forgetting on old tasks. We focus on continual text classification under the class-incremental setting. Recent CL studies have identified…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yifan Song , Peiyi Wang , Weimin Xiong , Dawei Zhu , Tianyu Liu , Zhifang Sui , Sujian Li

Deep learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting of the classes in the older phases as they get trained on the classes introduced in the new phase in the class-incremental learning setting. In this work, we show that the effect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Mohammed Asad Karim , Indu Joshi , Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh

Scarcity of data and incremental learning of new tasks pose two major bottlenecks for many modern computer vision algorithms. The phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting, i.e., the model's inability to classify previously learned data after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sanchar Palit , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Unlike humans, who are capable of continual learning over their lifetimes, artificial neural networks have long been known to suffer from a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting, whereby new learning can lead to abrupt erasure of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Christos Kaplanis , Murray Shanahan , Claudia Clopath

We study class-incremental learning, a training setup in which new classes of data are observed over time for the model to learn from. Despite the straightforward problem formulation, the naive application of classification models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ahmet Iscen , Thomas Bird , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Incremental learning enables artificial agents to learn from sequential data. While important progress was made by exploiting deep neural networks, incremental learning remains very challenging. This is particularly the case when no memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Habib Slim , Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu , Darian Onchis

Catastrophic forgetting remains a central challenge in continual learning, where models are required to integrate new knowledge over time without losing what they have previously learned. In prior work, we introduced Cobweb/4V, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Nicki Barari , Edward Kim , Christopher MacLellan

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

Forgetting refers to the loss or deterioration of previously acquired knowledge. While existing surveys on forgetting have primarily focused on continual learning, forgetting is a prevalent phenomenon observed in various other research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zhenyi Wang , Enneng Yang , Li Shen , Heng Huang

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

This paper studies class incremental learning (CIL) of continual learning (CL). Many approaches have been proposed to deal with catastrophic forgetting (CF) in CIL. Most methods incrementally construct a single classifier for all classes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Gyuhak Kim , Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

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

Catastrophic forgetting of previous knowledge is a critical issue in continual learning typically handled through various regularization strategies. However, existing methods struggle especially when several incremental steps are performed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chang Liu , Giulia Rizzoli , Francesco Barbato , Andrea Maracani , Marco Toldo , Umberto Michieli , Yi Niu , Pietro Zanuttigh

Large Language Models (LLMs), pre-trained on massive text corpora, exhibit remarkable human-level language understanding, reasoning, and decision-making abilities. However, they tend to memorize unwanted information, such as private or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xiangyu Zhou , Yao Qiang , Saleh Zare Zade , Douglas Zytko , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu
‹ Prev 1 8 9 10 Next ›