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Existing research on continual learning (CL) of a sequence of tasks focuses mainly on dealing with catastrophic forgetting (CF) to balance the learning plasticity of new tasks and the memory stability of old tasks. However, an ideal CL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Zhi Wang , Zhongbin Wu , Yanni Li , Bing Liu , Guangxi Li , Yuping Wang

In this paper, we propose a continual learning (CL) technique that is beneficial to sequential task learners by improving their retained accuracy and reducing catastrophic forgetting. The principal target of our approach is the automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ammar Shaker , Shujian Yu , Francesco Alesiani

The problem of continual learning has attracted rising attention in recent years. However, few works have questioned the commonly used learning setup, based on a task curriculum of random class. This differs significantly from human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Yuzhao Chen , Zonghuan Li , Zhiyuan Hu , Nuno Vasconcelos

Although the concept of catastrophic forgetting is straightforward, there is a lack of study on its causes. In this paper, we systematically explore and reveal three causes for catastrophic forgetting in Class Incremental Learning(CIL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zixuan Ni , Haizhou Shi , Siliang Tang , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian , Yueting Zhuang

With the widespread adoption of deep learning in visual tasks, Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) has become an important paradigm for handling dynamically evolving data distributions. However, CIL faces the core challenge of catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jinge Ma , Fengqing Zhu

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

Place recognition is an essential and challenging task in loop closing and global localization for robotics and autonomous driving applications. Benefiting from the recent advances in deep learning techniques, the performance of LiDAR place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Jiafeng Cui , Xieyuanli Chen

Humans' continual learning (CL) ability is closely related to Stability Versus Plasticity Dilemma that describes how humans achieve ongoing learning capacity and preservation for learned information. The notion of CL has always been present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Yifan Chang , Wenbo Li , Jian Peng , Bo Tang , Yu Kang , Yinjie Lei , Yuanmiao Gui , Qing Zhu , Yu Liu , Haifeng Li

Class-incremental learning (CIL) has been widely studied under the setting of starting from a small number of classes (base classes). Instead, we explore an understudied real-world setting of CIL that starts with a strong model pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tz-Ying Wu , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Zhizhong Li , Avinash Ravichandran , Nuno Vasconcelos , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

This paper presents a practical and simple yet efficient method to effectively deal with the catastrophic forgetting for Class Incremental Learning (CIL) tasks. CIL tends to learn new concepts perfectly, but not at the expense of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Bahram Mohammadi , Mohammad Sabokrou

Continual learning (CL) is concerned with learning multiple tasks sequentially without forgetting previously learned tasks. Despite substantial empirical advances over recent years, the theoretical development of CL remains in its infancy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Liangzu Peng , Uday Kiran Reddy Tadipatri , Ziqing Xu , Eric Eaton , René Vidal

Continual learning (CL) aims to enable information systems to learn from a continuous data stream across time. However, it is difficult for existing deep learning architectures to learn a new task without largely forgetting previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Magdalena Biesialska , Katarzyna Biesialska , Marta R. Costa-jussà

A significant challenge in achieving ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence is the limited ability of models to rapidly learn new information in real-world scenarios where data follows long-tailed distributions, all while avoiding forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Siddeshwar Raghavan , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Continual Learning (CL) investigates how to train Deep Networks on a stream of tasks without incurring forgetting. CL settings proposed in literature assume that every incoming example is paired with ground-truth annotations. However, this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-30 Matteo Boschini , Pietro Buzzega , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Existing literature in Continual Learning (CL) has focused on overcoming catastrophic forgetting, the inability of the learner to recall how to perform tasks observed in the past. There are however other desirable properties of a CL system,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tom Veniat , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims at learning a multi-class classifier in a phase-by-phase manner, in which only data of a subset of the classes are provided at each phase. Previous works mainly focus on mitigating forgetting in phases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yujun Shi , Kuangqi Zhou , Jian Liang , Zihang Jiang , Jiashi Feng , Philip Torr , Song Bai , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Continual learning has been an active research area in machine learning, focusing on incrementally learning a sequence of tasks. A key challenge is catastrophic forgetting (CF), and most research efforts have been directed toward mitigating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Saleh Momeni , Bing Liu

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to continually learn a sequence of tasks, with each task consisting of a set of unique classes. Graph CIL (GCIL) follows the same setting but needs to deal with graph tasks (e.g., node classification in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen , Bing Liu

Humans have a remarkable ability to quickly and effectively learn new concepts in a continuous manner without forgetting old knowledge. Though deep learning has made tremendous successes on various computer vision tasks, it faces challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kun Wu , Chengxiang Yin , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Dejun Yang

Continual learning (CL) is a paradigm that aims to replicate the human ability to learn and accumulate knowledge continually without forgetting previous knowledge and transferring it to new tasks. Recent instruction tuning (IT) involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihan Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad
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