English
Related papers

Related papers: Towards Better Plasticity-Stability Trade-off in I…

200 papers

Plasticity, the ability of a neural network to quickly change its predictions in response to new information, is essential for the adaptability and robustness of deep reinforcement learning systems. Deep neural networks are known to lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Clare Lyle , Zeyu Zheng , Evgenii Nikishin , Bernardo Avila Pires , Razvan Pascanu , Will Dabney

Loss of plasticity is one of the main challenges in continual learning with deep neural networks, where neural networks trained via backpropagation gradually lose their ability to adapt to new tasks and perform significantly worse than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiuqi Wang , Rohan Chandra , Shangtong Zhang

The main purpose of incremental learning is to learn new knowledge while not forgetting the knowledge which have been learned before. At present, the main challenge in this area is the catastrophe forgetting, namely the network will lose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Qiuyu Zhu , Zikuang He , Xin Ye

Task-incremental learning involves the challenging problem of learning new tasks continually, without forgetting past knowledge. Many approaches address the problem by expanding the structure of a shared neural network as tasks arrive, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Azhar Shaikh , Nishant Sinha

A new approach for generating stress-constrained topological designs in continua is presented. The main novelty is in the use of elasto-plastic modeling and in optimizing the design such that it will exhibit a linear-elastic response. This…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Oded Amir

Task incremental learning aims to enable a system to maintain its performance on previously learned tasks while learning new tasks, solving the problem of catastrophic forgetting. One promising approach is to build an individual network or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Jian Jiang , Oya Celiktutan

For multilayer structures, interfacial failure is one of the most important elements related to device reliability. For cohesive zone modelling, traction-separation relations represent the adhesive interactions across interfaces. However,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Congjie Wei , Jiaxin Zhang , Kenneth M. Liechti , Chenglin Wu

A hallmark of intelligence is the ability to adapt in non-stationary environments, yet deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents often struggle in such settings. Prior studies introduce non-stationarity through abrupt shifts in features or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Raymond Chua , Doina Precup , Blake Richards

Continual Instruction Tuning (CIT) is adopted to continually instruct Large Models to follow human intent data by data. It is observed that existing gradient update would heavily destroy the performance on previous datasets during CIT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jingyang Qiao , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Shouhong Ding , Yuan Xie

Time-dependent data-generating distributions have proven to be difficult for gradient-based training of neural networks, as the greedy updates result in catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Despite the progress in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Matthias De Lange , Gido van de Ven , Tinne Tuytelaars

Continual learning has become a trending topic in machine learning. Recent studies have discovered an interesting phenomenon called loss of plasticity, referring to neural networks gradually losing the ability to learn new tasks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Tianhui Liu , Lili Mou

Plasticity refers to a network's ability to adapt to changing data distributions, which is crucial for the successful training of deep reinforcement learning agents. Loss of plasticity causes performance plateaus and contributes to scaling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Timo Klein , Christoph Luther , Manus McAuliffe , Lukas Miklautz , Claudia Plant , Sebastian Tschiatschek

We propose a new model for augmenting algorithms with predictions by requiring that they are formally learnable and instance robust. Learnability ensures that predictions can be efficiently constructed from a reasonable amount of past data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Thomas Lavastida , Benjamin Moseley , R. Ravi , Chenyang Xu

In computing, as in many aspects of life, changes incur cost. Many optimization problems are formulated as a one-time instance starting from scratch. However, a common case that arises is when we already have a set of prior assignments, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Edith Cohen , Graham Cormode , Nick Duffield , Carsten Lund

Recent research identified a temporary performance drop on previously learned tasks when transitioning to a new one. This drop is called the stability gap and has great consequences for continual learning: it complicates the direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Sandesh Kamath , Albin Soutif-Cormerais , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu

Artificial neural networks have shown remarkable success in supervised learning when trained on a single task using a fixed dataset. However, when neural networks are trained on a reinforcement learning task, their ability to continue…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mansi Maheshwari , John C. Raisbeck , Bruno Castro da Silva

Deep learning systems are prone to catastrophic forgetting when learning from a sequence of tasks, as old data from previous tasks is unavailable when learning a new task. To address this, some methods propose replaying data from previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chenyang Wang , Junjun Jiang , Xingyu Hu , Xianming Liu , Xiangyang Ji

Incremental learning requires a model to continually learn new tasks from streaming data. However, traditional fine-tuning of a well-trained deep neural network on a new task will dramatically degrade performance on the old task -- a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Can Peng , Kun Zhao , Sam Maksoud , Meng Li , Brian C. Lovell

Training an agent to solve control tasks directly from high-dimensional images with model-free reinforcement learning (RL) has proven difficult. A promising approach is to learn a latent representation together with the control policy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Denis Yarats , Amy Zhang , Ilya Kostrikov , Brandon Amos , Joelle Pineau , Rob Fergus

Plasticity loss, a critical challenge in neural network training, limits a model's ability to adapt to new tasks or shifts in data distribution. This paper introduces AID (Activation by Interval-wise Dropout), a novel method inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Sangyeon Park , Isaac Han , Seungwon Oh , Kyung-Joong Kim