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Recent years have witnessed significant progress in the development of machine learning models across a wide range of fields, fueled by increased computational resources, large-scale datasets, and the rise of deep learning architectures.…

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…

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Recent advancements in data-driven task-oriented dialogue systems (ToDs) struggle with incremental learning due to computational constraints and time-consuming issues. Continual Learning (CL) attempts to solve this by avoiding intensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Min Zeng , Wei Xue , Qifeng Liu , Yike Guo

Online continual learning (online CL) studies the problem of learning sequential tasks from an online data stream without task boundaries, aiming to adapt to new data while alleviating catastrophic forgetting on the past tasks. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zhen Wang , Liu Liu , Yajing Kong , Jiaxian Guo , Dacheng Tao

Online continual learning requires the models to learn from constant, endless streams of data. While significant efforts have been made in this field, most were focused on mitigating the catastrophic forgetting issue to achieve better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xinrui Wang , Chuanxing Geng , Wenhai Wan , Shao-yuan Li , Songcan Chen

Continual learning (CL) is a setting in which an agent has to learn from an incoming stream of data sequentially. CL performance evaluates the model's ability to continually learn and solve new problems with incremental available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Josh Andle , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Despite recent progress in enhancing the efficacy of Open-Domain Continual Learning (ODCL) in Vision-Language Models (VLM), failing to (1) correctly identify the Task-ID of a test image and (2) use only the category set corresponding to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yadong Lu , Shitian Zhao , Boxiang Yun , Dongsheng Jiang , Yin Li , Qingli Li , Yan Wang

Machine Learning models in real-world applications must continuously learn new tasks to adapt to shifts in the data-generating distribution. Yet, for Continual Learning (CL), models often struggle to balance learning new tasks (plasticity)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Luckeciano C. Melo , Alessandro Abate , Yarin Gal

Continual learning (CL) learns a sequence of tasks incrementally. There are two popular CL settings, class incremental learning (CIL) and task incremental learning (TIL). A major challenge of CL is catastrophic forgetting (CF). While a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Gyuhak Kim , Changnan Xiao , Tatsuya Konishi , Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

Online Continual Learning (OCL) for image classification represents a challenging subset of Continual Learning, focusing on classifying images from a stream without assuming data independence and identical distribution (i.i.d). The primary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Joe Khawand , David Colliaux

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in federated learning (FL). However, the contexts in which clients engage in sequential learning remain under-explored. Bridging FL and continual learning (CL) gives rise to a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Abudukelimu Wuerkaixi , Sen Cui , Jingfeng Zhang , Kunda Yan , Bo Han , Gang Niu , Lei Fang , Changshui Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

Continual learning (CL) is a learning paradigm that emulates the human capability of learning and accumulating knowledge continually without forgetting the previously learned knowledge and also transferring the learned knowledge to help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

As an effective learning paradigm against insufficient training samples, Multi-Task Learning (MTL) encourages knowledge sharing across multiple related tasks so as to improve the overall performance. In MTL, a major challenge springs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Zhiyong Yang , Qianqian Xu , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Cognitive functions in current artificial intelligence networks are tied to the exponential increase in network scale, whereas the human brain can continuously learn hundreds of cognitive functions with remarkably low energy consumption.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Bing Han , Feifei Zhao , Yinqian Sun , Wenxuan Pan , Yi Zeng

One of the objectives of continual learning is to prevent catastrophic forgetting in learning multiple tasks sequentially, and the existing solutions have been driven by the conceptualization of the plasticity-stability dilemma. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Seungyub Han , Yeongmo Kim , Taehyun Cho , Jungwoo Lee

Non-Centralized Continual Learning (NCCL) has become an emerging paradigm for enabling distributed devices such as vehicles and servers to handle streaming data from a joint non-stationary environment. To achieve high reliability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yichen Li , Haozhao Wang , Wenchao Xu , Tianzhe Xiao , Hong Liu , Minzhu Tu , Yuying Wang , Xin Yang , Rui Zhang , Shui Yu , Song Guo , Ruixuan Li

Recent years have witnessed enormous progress of online learning. However, a major challenge on the road to artificial agents is concept drift, that is, the data probability distribution would change where the data instance arrives…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ya-nan Han , Jian-wei Liu , Bing-biao Xiao , Xin-Tan Wang , Xiong-lin Luo

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

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yifan Song , Peiyi Wang , Weimin Xiong , Dawei Zhu , Tianyu Liu , Zhifang Sui , Sujian Li

Previous researches have demonstrated that the framework of dictionary learning with sparse coding, in which signals are decomposed as linear combinations of a few atoms of a learned dictionary, is well adept to reconstruction issues. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Shu Kong , Donghui Wang

Online multi-task learning (OMTL) enhances streaming data processing by leveraging the inherent relations among multiple tasks. It can be described as an optimization problem in which a single loss function is defined for multiple tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ruiyu Li , Peilin Zhao , Guangxia Li , Zhiqiang Xu , Xuewei Li