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Online continual learning (CL) studies the problem of learning continuously from a single-pass data stream while adapting to new data and mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Recently, by storing a small subset of old data, replay-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yujie Wei , Jiaxin Ye , Zhizhong Huang , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

Continual learning (CL) aims to learn new tasks without erasing previous knowledge. However, current CL methods primarily emphasize improving accuracy while often neglecting training efficiency, which consequently restricts their practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 RuiQi Liu , Boyu Diao , Libo Huang , Zijia An , Hangda Liu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Federated continual learning (FCL) learns incremental tasks over time from confidential datasets distributed across clients. This paper focuses on rehearsal-free FCL, which has severe forgetting issues when learning new tasks due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Gaurav Bagwe , Xiaoyong Yuan , Miao Pan , Lan Zhang

This paper considers deep out-of-distribution active learning. In practice, fully trained neural networks interact randomly with out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs and map aberrant samples randomly within the model representation space. Since…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ryan Benkert , Mohit Prabhushankar , Ghassan AlRegib

Online deep learning tackles the challenge of learning from data streams by balancing two competing goals: fast learning and deep learning. However, existing research primarily emphasizes deep learning solutions, which are more adept at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Antonios Valkanas , Boris N. Oreshkin , Mark Coates

A fundamental notion of distance between train and test distributions from the field of domain adaptation is discrepancy distance. While in general hard to compute, here we provide the first set of provably efficient algorithms for testing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Gautam Chandrasekaran , Adam R. Klivans , Vasilis Kontonis , Konstantinos Stavropoulos , Arsen Vasilyan

In Online Continual Learning (OCL) a learning system receives a stream of data and sequentially performs prediction and training steps. Important challenges in OCL are concerned with automatic adaptation to the particular non-stationary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Michalis K. Titsias , Alexandre Galashov , Amal Rannen-Triki , Razvan Pascanu , Yee Whye Teh , Jorg Bornschein

Unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) Detection aims to separate the samples falling outside the distribution of training data without label information. Among numerous branches, contrastive learning has shown its excellent capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Menglong Chen , Xingtai Gui , Shicai Fan

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

Continual reinforcement learning (CRL) refers to a naturalistic setting where an agent needs to endlessly evolve, by trial and error, to solve multiple tasks that are presented sequentially. One of the largest obstacles to CRL is that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zichen Liu , Guoji Fu , Chao Du , Wee Sun Lee , Min Lin

Fault diagnosis (FD) is essential for maintaining operational safety and minimizing economic losses by detecting system abnormalities. Recently, deep learning (DL)-driven FD methods have gained prominence, offering significant improvements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Dandan Zhao , Karthick Sharma , Hongpeng Yin , Yuxin Qi , Shuhao Zhang

Continual learning (CL) aims to train deep neural networks efficiently on streaming data while limiting the forgetting caused by new tasks. However, learning transferable knowledge with less interference between tasks is difficult, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Saurav Jha , Dong Gong , He Zhao , Lina Yao

Existing work in continual learning (CL) focuses on mitigating catastrophic forgetting, i.e., model performance deterioration on past tasks when learning a new task. However, the training efficiency of a CL system is under-investigated,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Zifeng Wang , Zheng Zhan , Yifan Gong , Geng Yuan , Wei Niu , Tong Jian , Bin Ren , Stratis Ioannidis , Yanzhi Wang , Jennifer Dy

Node classification is a key task in temporal graph learning (TGL). Real-life temporal graphs often introduce new node classes over time, but existing TGL methods assume a fixed set of classes. This assumption brings limitations, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hanmo Liu , Shimin Di , Haoyang Li , Xun Jian , Yue Wang , Lei Chen

Continual Learning (CL, sometimes also termed incremental learning) is a flavor of machine learning where the usual assumption of stationary data distribution is relaxed or omitted. When naively applying, e.g., DNNs in CL problems, changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Benedikt Bagus , Alexander Gepperth , Timothée Lesort

Continual learning (CL) aims to learn a sequence of tasks without forgetting the previously acquired knowledge. However, recent CL advances are restricted to supervised continual learning (SCL) scenarios. Consequently, they are not scalable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Divyam Madaan , Jaehong Yoon , Yuanchun Li , Yunxin Liu , Sung Ju Hwang

Online continual learning, especially when task identities and task boundaries are unavailable, is a challenging continual learning setting. One representative kind of methods for online continual learning is replay-based methods, in which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Yan-Shuo Liang , Wu-Jun Li

Continual learning methods used to force neural networks to process sequential tasks in isolation, preventing them from leveraging useful inter-task relationships and causing them to repeatedly relearn similar features or overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Hyung-Jun Moon , Sung-Bae Cho

Temporal difference learning (TD) is a foundational concept in reinforcement learning (RL), aimed at efficiently assessing a policy's value function. TD($\lambda$), a potent variant, incorporates a memory trace to distribute the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jianfei Ma

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