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Continual learning algorithms which keep the parameters of new tasks close to that of previous tasks, are popular in preventing catastrophic forgetting in sequential task learning settings. However, 1) the performance for the new continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Wei Cong , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Yuyang Liu , Jiahua Dong

Autonomous machine learning systems that learn many tasks in sequence are prone to the catastrophic forgetting problem. Mathematical theory is needed in order to understand the extent of forgetting during continual learning. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Daniel Goldfarb , Paul Hand

We consider the problem of learning multiple tasks in a continual learning setting in which data from different tasks is presented to the learner in a streaming fashion. A key challenge in this setting is the so-called "catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Christiaan Lamers , Rene Vidal , Nabil Belbachir , Niki van Stein , Thomas Baeck , Paris Giampouras

Artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when they are sequentially trained on multiple tasks. To overcome this problem, we present a novel approach based on task-conditioned hypernetworks, i.e., networks that generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Johannes von Oswald , Christian Henning , Benjamin F. Grewe , João Sacramento

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

Large language models (LLMs) can acquire new capabilities through fine-tuning, but continual adaptation often leads to catastrophic forgetting. We propose CRAFT, a continual learning framework that avoids updating model weights by instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Md Anwar Hossen , Fatema Siddika , Juan Pablo Munoz , Tanya Roosta , Ali Jannesari

Many real-world applications require machine-learning models to be able to deal with non-stationary data distributions and thus learn autonomously over an extended period of time, often in an online setting. One of the main challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Giuseppe Serra , Ben Werner , Florian Buettner

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in various downstream tasks but typically face Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) during fine-tuning. In this paper, we propose the Forgetting-Aware Pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Wei Huang , Anda Cheng , Yinggui Wang

Catastrophic forgetting affects the training of neural networks, limiting their ability to learn multiple tasks sequentially. From the perspective of the well established plasticity-stability dilemma, neural networks tend to be overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Seyed Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Razvan Pascanu , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

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

Continual learning has become essential in many practical applications such as online news summaries and product classification. The primary challenge is known as catastrophic forgetting, a phenomenon where a model inadvertently discards…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Xiaodi Li , Dingcheng Li , Rujun Gao , Mahmoud Zamani , Latifur Khan

Incremental learning often encounter challenges such as overfitting to new data and catastrophic forgetting of old data. Existing methods can effectively extend the model for new tasks while freezing the parameters of the old model, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Chuangxin Zhang , Guangfeng Lin , Enhui Zhao , Kaiyang Liao , Yajun Chen

Despite all the impressive advances of recurrent neural networks, sequential data is still in need of better modelling. Truncated backpropagation through time (TBPTT), the learning algorithm most widely used in practice, suffers from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Asier Mujika , Florian Meier , Angelika Steger

Continual learning in neural networks suffers from a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting, in which a network quickly forgets what was learned in a previous task. The human brain, however, is able to continually learn new tasks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Tananun Songdechakraiwut , Xiaoshuang Yin , Barry D. Van Veen

We propose a Bayesian neural network-based continual learning algorithm using Variational Inference, aiming to overcome several drawbacks of existing methods. Specifically, in continual learning scenarios, storing network parameters at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Sanchar Palit , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Naively trained neural networks tend to experience catastrophic forgetting in sequential task settings, where data from previous tasks are unavailable. A number of methods, using various model expansion strategies, have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Nikhil Mehta , Kevin J Liang , Vinay K Verma , Lawrence Carin

Continual learning (CL) learns a sequence of tasks incrementally with the goal of achieving two main objectives: overcoming catastrophic forgetting (CF) and encouraging knowledge transfer (KT) across tasks. However, most existing techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu , Nianzu Ma , Hu Xu , Lei Shu

Continual learning poses a fundamental challenge for modern machine learning systems, requiring models to adapt to new tasks while retaining knowledge from previous ones. Addressing this challenge necessitates the development of efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jędrzej Kozal , Jan Wasilewski , Bartosz Krawczyk , Michał Woźniak

We introduce Continual Learning via Neural Pruning (CLNP), a new method aimed at lifelong learning in fixed capacity models based on neuronal model sparsification. In this method, subsequent tasks are trained using the inactive neurons and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Siavash Golkar , Michael Kagan , Kyunghyun Cho

Current training regimes for deep learning usually involve exposure to a single task / dataset at a time. Here we start from the observation that in this context the trained model is not given any knowledge of anything outside its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Giacomo Spigler