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Continual Learning (CL) considers the problem of training an agent sequentially on a set of tasks while seeking to retain performance on all previous tasks. A key challenge in CL is catastrophic forgetting, which arises when performance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Samuel Kessler , Jack Parker-Holder , Philip Ball , Stefan Zohren , Stephen J. Roberts

Federated learning encounters a critical challenge of data heterogeneity, adversely affecting the performance and convergence of the federated model. Various approaches have been proposed to address this issue, yet their effectiveness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu , Qinghai Zheng

Neural networks encounter the challenge of Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) in continual learning, where new task learning interferes with previously learned knowledge. Existing data fine-tuning and regularization methods necessitate task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Yuwei Sun , Ippei Fujisawa , Arthur Juliani , Jun Sakuma , Ryota Kanai

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) constitutes a pivotal subfield within continual learning, aimed at enabling models to progressively learn new classification tasks while retaining knowledge obtained from prior tasks. Although previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jaeill Kim , Wonseok Lee , Moonjung Eo , Wonjong Rhee

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

Continual Learning (CL) aims to enable Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to learn new data without forgetting previously learned knowledge. The key to achieving this goal is to avoid confusion at the feature level, i.e., avoiding confusion within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shaoxu Cheng , Kanglei Geng , Chiyuan He , Zihuan Qiu , Linfeng Xu , Heqian Qiu , Lanxiao Wang , Qingbo Wu , Fanman Meng , Hongliang Li

In this work, we combine the two paradigms: Federated Learning (FL) and Continual Learning (CL) for text classification task in cloud-edge continuum. The objective of Federated Continual Learning (FCL) is to improve deep learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yatin Chaudhary , Pranav Rai , Matthias Schubert , Hinrich Schütze , Pankaj Gupta

The proliferation of end devices has led to a distributed computing paradigm, wherein on-device machine learning models continuously process diverse data generated by these devices. The dynamic nature of this data, characterized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Zhengyi Zhong , Weidong Bao , Ji Wang , Jianguo Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

Federated Class-Incremental Learning (FCIL) refers to a scenario where a dynamically changing number of clients collaboratively learn an ever-increasing number of incoming tasks. FCIL is known to suffer from local forgetting due to class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Milad Khademi Nori , Il-Min Kim , Guanghui Wang

Lifelong learning aims to train a model with good performance for new tasks while retaining the capacity of previous tasks. However, some practical scenarios require the system to forget undesirable knowledge due to privacy issues, which is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Lianlei Shan , Wenzhang Zhou , Wei Li , Xingyu Ding

Federated Class Continual Learning (FCCL) merges the challenges of distributed client learning with the need for seamless adaptation to new classes without forgetting old ones. The key challenge in FCCL is catastrophic forgetting, an issue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jinglin Liang , Jin Zhong , Hanlin Gu , Zhongqi Lu , Xingxing Tang , Gang Dai , Shuangping Huang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

We introduce a new training paradigm that enforces interval constraints on neural network parameter space to control forgetting. Contemporary Continual Learning (CL) methods focus on training neural networks efficiently from a stream of…

As an effective learning paradigm against insufficient training samples, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) encourages knowledge sharing across multiple related tasks so as to improve the overall performance. In MTL, a major challenge springs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

In continual learning (CL), the goal is to design models that can learn a sequence of tasks without catastrophic forgetting. While there is a rich set of techniques for CL, relatively little understanding exists on how representations built…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Yingcong Li , Mingchen Li , M. Salman Asif , Samet Oymak

We propose a novel framework and a solution to tackle the continual learning (CL) problem with changing network architectures. Most CL methods focus on adapting a single architecture to a new task/class by modifying its weights. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Divyam Madaan , Hongxu Yin , Wonmin Byeon , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Humans learn all their life long. They accumulate knowledge from a sequence of learning experiences and remember the essential concepts without forgetting what they have learned previously. Artificial neural networks struggle to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Timothée Lesort

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents that are capable of learning continually a sequence of tasks, building on previously learned knowledge. A key challenge in this learning paradigm is catastrophically forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

The stability-plasticity dilemma is a major challenge in continual learning, as it involves balancing the conflicting objectives of maintaining performance on previous tasks while learning new tasks. In this paper, we propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Haneol Kang , Dong-Wan Choi

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), which targets at continuously expanding model's representation capacity under few supervisions, is an important yet challenging problem. On the one hand, when fitting new tasks (novel classes),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Boyu Yang , Mingbao Lin , Binghao Liu , Mengying Fu , Chang Liu , Rongrong Ji , Qixiang Ye

Federated continual learning (FCL) enables models to learn new tasks across multiple distributed clients, protecting privacy and without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. However, current methods face challenges balancing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Omayma Moussadek , Riccardo Salami , Simone Calderara