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Continual learning denotes machine learning methods which can adapt to new environments while retaining and reusing knowledge gained from past experiences. Such methods address two issues encountered by models in non-stationary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 J. Armstrong , D. Clifton

Continual learning (CL) aims to constantly learn new knowledge over time while avoiding catastrophic forgetting on old tasks. In this work, we focus on continual text classification under the class-incremental setting. Recent CL studies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yifan Song , Peiyi Wang , Dawei Zhu , Tianyu Liu , Zhifang Sui , Sujian Li

Continual learning is the ability to sequentially learn over time by accommodating knowledge while retaining previously learned experiences. Neural networks can learn multiple tasks when trained on them jointly, but cannot maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Frantzeska Lavda , Jason Ramapuram , Magda Gregorova , Alexandros Kalousis

Continual Learning (CL) algorithms incrementally learn a predictor or representation across multiple sequentially observed tasks. Designing CL algorithms that perform reliably and avoid so-called catastrophic forgetting has proven a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Jeremias Knoblauch , Hisham Husain , Tom Diethe

This paper explores Online Continual Self-Supervised Learning (OCSSL), a scenario in which models learn from continuous streams of unlabeled, non-stationary data, where methods typically employ replay and fast convergence is a central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Giacomo Cignoni , Simone Magistri , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Antonio Carta

An ultimate objective in continual learning is to preserve knowledge learned in preceding tasks while learning new tasks. To mitigate forgetting prior knowledge, we propose a novel knowledge distillation technique that takes into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Kaushik Roy , Christian Simon , Peyman Moghadam , Mehrtash Harandi

We introduce a model of online algorithms subject to strict constraints on data retention. An online learning algorithm encounters a stream of data points, one per round, generated by some stationary process. Crucially, each data point can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , Markus Mobius , James Siderius

In continual learning (CL), a learner is faced with a sequence of tasks, arriving one after the other, and the goal is to remember all the tasks once the continual learning experience is finished. The prior art in CL uses episodic memory,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Arslan Chaudhry , Naeemullah Khan , Puneet K. Dokania , Philip H. S. Torr

The majority of online continual learning (CL) advocates single-epoch training and imposes restrictions on the size of replay memory. However, single-epoch training would incur a different amount of computations per CL algorithm, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Minhyuk Seo , Hyunseo Koh , Jonghyun Choi

Models trained in the context of continual learning (CL) should be able to learn from a stream of data over an undefined period of time. The main challenges herein are: 1) maintaining old knowledge while simultaneously benefiting from it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Oleksiy Ostapenko , Mihai Puscas , Tassilo Klein , Patrick Jähnichen , Moin Nabi

Online continual learning (OCL) methods adapt to changing environments without forgetting past knowledge. Similarly, online time series forecasting (OTSF) is a real-world problem where data evolve in time and success depends on both rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Edoardo Urettini , Daniele Atzeni , Ioanna-Yvonni Tsaknaki , Antonio Carta

Continual Learning (CL) aims to learn from a non-stationary data stream where the underlying distribution changes over time. While recent advances have produced efficient memory-free methods in the offline CL (offCL) setting, where tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Nicolas Michel , Maorong Wang , Jiangpeng He , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Online continual learning (CL) aims to learn new knowledge and consolidate previously learned knowledge from non-stationary data streams. Due to the time-varying training setting, the model learned from a changing distribution easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Quanziang Wang , Renzhen Wang , Yichen Wu , Xixi Jia , Deyu Meng

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to grow in both capability and cost, transferring frontier capabilities into smaller, deployable students has become a central engineering problem, and knowledge distillation remains the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mingyang Song , Mao Zheng

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

We introduce a neural network architecture that logarithmically reduces the number of self-rehearsal steps in the generative rehearsal of continually learned models. In continual learning (CL), training samples come in subsequent tasks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Wojciech Masarczyk , Paweł Wawrzyński , Daniel Marczak , Kamil Deja , Tomasz Trzciński

Large language models (LLMs) often rely on user-specific memories distilled from past interactions to enable personalized generation. A common practice is to concatenate these memories with the input prompt, but this approach quickly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ondrej Bohdal , Pramit Saha , Umberto Michieli , Mete Ozay , Taha Ceritli

Instruction tuning effectively optimizes Large Language Models (LLMs) for downstream tasks. Due to the changing environment in real-life applications, LLMs necessitate continual task-specific adaptation without catastrophic forgetting.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yifan Wang , Yafei Liu , Chufan Shi , Haoling Li , Chen Chen , Haonan Lu , Yujiu Yang

Knowledge Distillation has been established as a highly promising approach for training compact and faster models by transferring knowledge from heavyweight and powerful models. However, KD in its conventional version constitutes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Maria Tzelepi , Anastasios Tefas

Modelling a language model for a multi-lingual scenario includes several potential challenges, among which catastrophic forgetting is the major challenge. For example, small language models (SLM) built for low-resource languages by adapting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Santosh Srinath K , Mudit Somani , Varun Reddy Padala , Prajna Devi Upadhyay , Abhijit Das