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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

Federated Learning (FL) is designed to protect the data privacy of each client during the training process by transmitting only models instead of the original data. However, the trained model may memorize certain information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Chen Wu , Sencun Zhu , Prasenjit Mitra

Transfer Learning (TL) is currently the most effective approach for modeling building thermal dynamics when only limited data are available. TL uses a pretrained model that is fine-tuned to a specific target building. However, it remains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Fabian Raisch , Max Langtry , Felix Koch , Ruchi Choudhary , Christoph Goebel , Benjamin Tischler

The availability of abundant labeled data in recent years led the researchers to introduce a methodology called transfer learning, which utilizes existing data in situations where there are difficulties in collecting new annotated data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Abolfazl Farahani , Behrouz Pourshojae , Khaled Rasheed , Hamid R. Arabnia

Transfer learning is crucial in training deep neural networks on new target tasks. Current transfer learning methods always assume at least one of (i) source and target task label spaces overlap, (ii) source datasets are available, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Sekitoshi Kanai , Atsutoshi Kumagai , Daiki Chijiwa , Hisashi Kashima

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been successfully used to design forwarding strategies for multi-hop mobile wireless networks. While such strategies can be used directly for networks with varied connectivity and dynamic conditions,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Cheonjin Park , Victoria Manfredi , Xiaolan Zhang , Chengyi Liu , Alicia P Wolfe , Dongjin Song , Sarah Tasneem , Bing Wang

Transformer neural networks are increasingly replacing prior architectures in a wide range of applications in different data modalities. The increasing size and computational demands of fine-tuning large pre-trained transformer neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yuliang Cai , Mohammad Rostami

Transfer learning (TL) is used to extrapolate the physics information encoded in a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) trained on synthetic neutrino-carbon inclusive scattering data to related processes such as neutrino-argon and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Jose L. Bonilla , Krzysztof M. Graczyk , Artur M. Ankowski , Rwik Dharmapal Banerjee , Beata E. Kowal , Hemant Prasad , Jan T. Sobczyk

Continual Learning (CL) focuses on learning from dynamic and changing data distributions while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Various methods have been developed to address the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhenyi Wang , Yan Li , Li Shen , Heng Huang

Continual learning refers to the ability to acquire and transfer knowledge without catastrophically forgetting what was previously learned. In this work, we consider \emph{few-shot} continual learning in classification tasks, and we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mengmi Zhang , Tao Wang , Joo Hwee Lim , Gabriel Kreiman , Jiashi Feng

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models that can learn a sequence of tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. A core challenge in CL is balancing stability -- preserving performance on old tasks -- and plasticity --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zhenrong Liu , Janne M. J. Huttunen , Mikko Honkala

In this paper, we propose an approach for transferring the knowledge of a neural model for sequence labeling, learned from the source domain, to a new model trained on a target domain, where new label categories appear. Our transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Lingzhen Chen , Alessandro Moschitti

Knowledge distillation is a popular machine learning technique that aims to transfer knowledge from a large 'teacher' network to a smaller 'student' network and improve the student's performance by training it to emulate the teacher. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Sushil Thapa

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

Transfer learning (TL) utilizes data or knowledge from one or more source domains to facilitate the learning in a target domain. It is particularly useful when the target domain has very few or no labeled data, due to annotation expense,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Wen Zhang , Lingfei Deng , Lei Zhang , Dongrui Wu

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) or continual learning is a desired capability in the real world, which requires a learning system to adapt to new tasks without forgetting former ones. While traditional CIL methods focus on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Da-Wei Zhou , Yuanhan Zhang , Yan Wang , Jingyi Ning , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training while preserving privacy by allowing clients to share model updates instead of raw data. Pervasive computing environments (e.g., for Human Activity Recognition, HAR), which we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sara Alosaime , Arshad Jhumka

We consider Heterogeneous Transfer Learning (HTL) from a source to a new target domain for high-dimensional regression with differing feature sets. Most homogeneous TL methods assume that target and source domains share the same feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Jae Ho Chang , Massimiliano Russo , Subhadeep Paul

The traditional paradigm for developing machine prognostics usually relies on generalization from data acquired in experiments under controlled conditions prior to deployment of the equipment. Detecting or predicting failures and estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Yuantao Fan , Sławomir Nowaczyk , Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

One of the main motivations of studying continual learning is that the problem setting allows a model to accrue knowledge from past tasks to learn new tasks more efficiently. However, recent studies suggest that the key metric that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Jiefeng Chen , Timothy Nguyen , Dilan Gorur , Arslan Chaudhry