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The human brain is capable of learning tasks sequentially mostly without forgetting. However, deep neural networks (DNNs) suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning one task after another. We address this challenge considering a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Aleksandr Dekhovich , David M. J. Tax , Marcel H. F. Sluiter , Miguel A. Bessa

Neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting and are unable to sequentially learn new tasks without guaranteed stationarity in data distribution. Continual learning could be achieved via replay -- by concurrently training externally…

The ability to learn continuously from an incoming data stream without catastrophic forgetting is critical for designing intelligent systems. Many existing approaches to continual learning rely on stochastic gradient descent and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Sandeep Madireddy , Angel Yanguas-Gil , Prasanna Balaprakash

Efficient continual learning in humans is enabled by a rich set of neurophysiological mechanisms and interactions between multiple memory systems. The brain efficiently encodes information in non-overlapping sparse codes, which facilitates…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Continual learning is a key feature of biological neural systems, but artificial neural networks often suffer from catastrophic forgetting. Instead of backpropagation, biologically plausible learning algorithms may enable stable continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Denis Larionov , Nikolay Bazenkov , Mikhail Kiselev

Most artificial intelligence models have limiting ability to solve new tasks faster, without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. The recently emerging paradigm of continual learning aims to solve this issue, in which the model learns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Ju Xu , Zhanxing Zhu

In lifelong learning systems based on artificial neural networks, one of the biggest obstacles is the inability to retain old knowledge as new information is encountered. This phenomenon is known as catastrophic forgetting. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Real-world applications often require learning continuously from a stream of data under ever-changing conditions. When trying to learn from such non-stationary data, deep neural networks (DNNs) undergo catastrophic forgetting of previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Arnav Varma , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) suffer from a rapid decrease in performance when trained on a sequence of tasks where only data of the most recent task is available. This phenomenon, known as catastrophic forgetting, prevents DNNs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Felix Wiewel , Bin Yang

While deep neural networks have surpassed human performance in multiple situations, they are prone to catastrophic forgetting: upon training a new task, they rapidly forget previously learned ones. Neuroscience studies, based on idealized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Axel Laborieux , Maxence Ernoult , Tifenn Hirtzlin , Damien Querlioz

The goal of continual learning is to provide intelligent agents that are capable of learning continually a sequence of tasks using the knowledge obtained from previous tasks while performing well on prior tasks. However, a key challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Ya-nan Han , Jian-wei Liu

In many real-world scenarios, data to train machine learning models become available over time. However, neural network models struggle to continually learn new concepts without forgetting what has been learnt in the past. This phenomenon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Beyza Ermis , Giovanni Zappella , Martin Wistuba , Aditya Rawal , Cedric Archambeau

There is an increasing need of continual learning in dynamic systems, such as the self-driving vehicle, the surveillance drone, and the robotic system. Such a system requires learning from the data stream, training the model to preserve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Xiaocong Du , Gouranga Charan , Frank Liu , Yu Cao

The continual learning (CL) paradigm aims to enable neural networks to learn tasks continually in a sequential fashion. The fundamental challenge in this learning paradigm is catastrophic forgetting previously learned tasks when the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Continual learning can incrementally absorb new concepts without interfering with previously learned knowledge. Motivated by the characteristics of neural networks, in which information is stored in weights on connections, we investigated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Depeng Li , Tianqi Wang , Bingrong Xu , Kenji Kawaguchi , Zhigang Zeng , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

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

Continual learning is the process of training machine learning models on a sequence of tasks where data distributions change over time. A well-known obstacle in this setting is catastrophic forgetting, a phenomenon in which a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Andrii Krutsylo

Humans can naturally learn new and varying tasks in a sequential manner. Continual learning is a class of learning algorithms that updates its learned model as it sees new data (on potentially new tasks) in a sequence. A key challenge in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Masih Eskandar , Tooba Imtiaz , Davin Hill , Zifeng Wang , Jennifer Dy

Artificial neural networks thrive in solving the classification problem for a particular rigid task, acquiring knowledge through generalized learning behaviour from a distinct training phase. The resulting network resembles a static entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Matthias De Lange , Rahaf Aljundi , Marc Masana , Sarah Parisot , Xu Jia , Ales Leonardis , Gregory Slabaugh , Tinne Tuytelaars

Methods proposed in the literature towards continual deep learning typically operate in a task-based sequential learning setup. A sequence of tasks is learned, one at a time, with all data of current task available but not of previous or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Rahaf Aljundi , Klaas Kelchtermans , Tinne Tuytelaars