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One of the fundamental limitations of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) is its inability to acquire and accumulate new cognitive capabilities. When some new data appears, such as new object classes that are not in the prescribed set of objects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Xinyu Wei , Biing-Hwang Fred Juang , Ouya Wang , Shenglong Zhou , Geoffrey Ye Li

Neural processes (NPs) learn stochastic processes and predict the distribution of target output adaptively conditioned on a context set of observed input-output pairs. Furthermore, Attentive Neural Process (ANP) improved the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Shenghao Qin , Jiacheng Zhu , Jimmy Qin , Wenshuo Wang , Ding Zhao

In this paper, we show that Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) suffer from catastrophic forgetting even when they are trained to approximate a single target distribution. We show that GAN training is a continual learning problem in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Hoang Thanh-Tung , Truyen Tran

Artificial neural networks thrive in solving the classification problem for a particular rigid task, acquiring knowledge through generalized learning behaviour from a distinct training phase. The resulting network resembles a static entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Matthias De Lange , Rahaf Aljundi , Marc Masana , Sarah Parisot , Xu Jia , Ales Leonardis , Gregory Slabaugh , Tinne Tuytelaars

With the capacity of continual learning, humans can continuously acquire knowledge throughout their lifespan. However, computational systems are not, in general, capable of learning tasks sequentially. This long-standing challenge for deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Qihan Yang , Fan Feng , Rosa Chan

Conventional training methods for artificial neural network (ANN) models never achieve zero error rate systematically for large data. A new training method consists of three steps: first create an auxiliary data from conventionally trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bo Deng

Deep neural networks are used in many state-of-the-art systems for machine perception. Once a network is trained to do a specific task, e.g., bird classification, it cannot easily be trained to do new tasks, e.g., incrementally learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Ronald Kemker , Marc McClure , Angelina Abitino , Tyler Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Standard artificial neural networks (ANNs) use sum-product or multiply-accumulate node operations with a memoryless nonlinear activation. These neural networks are known to have universal function approximation capabilities. Previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 William Chang , Hassan Hamad , Keith M. Chugg

A common challenge in continual learning (CL) is catastrophic forgetting, where the performance on old tasks drops after new, additional tasks are learned. In this paper, we propose a novel framework called ReCL to slow down forgetting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Pascal Janetzky , Tobias Schlagenhauf , Stefan Feuerriegel

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

We address catastrophic forgetting issues in graph learning as incoming data transits from one to another graph distribution. Whereas prior studies primarily tackle one setting of graph continual learning such as incremental node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Thanh Duc Hoang , Do Viet Tung , Duy-Hung Nguyen , Bao-Sinh Nguyen , Huy Hoang Nguyen , Hung Le

The human brain is the gold standard of adaptive learning. It not only can learn and benefit from experience, but also can adapt to new situations. In contrast, deep neural networks only learn one sophisticated but fixed mapping from inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shixian Wen , Amanda Rios , Yunhao Ge , Laurent Itti

The pursuit of long-term autonomy mandates that machine learning models must continuously adapt to their changing environments and learn to solve new tasks. Continual learning seeks to overcome the challenge of catastrophic forgetting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Jack Foster , Alexandra Brintrup

Learning a set of tasks over time, also known as continual learning (CL), is one of the most challenging problems in artificial intelligence due to catastrophic forgetting. Large language models (LLMs) are often impractical to frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jaya Krishna Mandivarapu

Catastrophic forgetting - the tendency of neural networks to forget previously learned data when learning new information - remains a central challenge in continual learning. In this work, we adopt a behavioral approach, observing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Guy Hacohen , Tinne Tuytelaars

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models on a sequence of tasks while retaining performance on previously learned ones. A core challenge in this setting is catastrophic forgetting, where new learning interferes with past knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Meng Ding , Jinhui Xu , Kaiyi Ji

To cope with real-world dynamics, an intelligent system needs to incrementally acquire, update, and exploit knowledge throughout its lifetime. This ability, known as Continual learning, provides a foundation for AI systems to develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Hesham G. Moussa , Aroosa Hameed , Arashmid Akhavain

Inverse problems are encountered in many domains of physics, with analytic continuation of the imaginary Green's function into the real frequency domain being a particularly important example. However, the analytic continuation problem is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Romain Fournier , Lei Wang , Oleg V. Yazyev , QuanSheng Wu

When building a unified vision system or gradually adding new capabilities to a system, the usual assumption is that training data for all tasks is always available. However, as the number of tasks grows, storing and retraining on such data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Zhizhong Li , Derek Hoiem

Although deep neural networks perform extremely well in controlled environments, they fail in real-world scenarios where data isn't available all at once, and the model must adapt to a new data distribution that may or may not follow the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vaishnavi Nagabhushana , Kartikay Agrawal , Ayon Borthakur