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Online continual learning (OCL) aims to train neural networks incrementally from a non-stationary data stream with a single pass through data. Rehearsal-based methods attempt to approximate the observed input distributions over time with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yaqian Zhang , Bernhard Pfahringer , Eibe Frank , Albert Bifet , Nick Jin Sean Lim , Yunzhe Jia

Humans excel at continually learning from an ever-changing environment whereas it remains a challenge for deep neural networks which exhibit catastrophic forgetting. The complementary learning system (CLS) theory suggests that the interplay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Elahe Arani , Fahad Sarfraz , Bahram Zonooz

In Continual Learning, a Neural Network is trained on a stream of data whose distribution shifts over time. Under these assumptions, it is especially challenging to improve on classes appearing later in the stream while remaining accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Pietro Buzzega , Matteo Boschini , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Forgetting presents a significant challenge during incremental training, making it particularly demanding for contemporary AI systems to assimilate new knowledge in streaming data environments. To address this issue, most approaches in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Monica Millunzi , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Jacopo Credi , Petter N. Kolm , Simone Calderara

Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning (O2O RL) faces a critical dilemma in balancing the use of a fixed offline dataset with newly collected online experiences. Standard methods, often relying on a fixed data-mixing ratio, struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Chihyeon Song , Jaewoo Lee , Jinkyoo Park

Continual lifelong learning is an machine learning framework inspired by human learning, where learners are trained to continuously acquire new knowledge in a sequential manner. However, the non-stationary nature of streaming training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xingyu Li , Bo Tang , Haifeng Li

Conceived in the early 1990s, Experience Replay (ER) has been shown to be a successful mechanism to allow online learning algorithms to reuse past experiences. Traditionally, ER can be applied to all machine learning paradigms (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Maria Torres Vega , Eric Eaton , Peter Stone , Antonio Liotta

Reinforcement Learning algorithms aim to learn optimal control strategies through iterative interactions with an environment. A critical element in this process is the experience replay buffer, which stores past experiences, allowing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Hoda Yamani , Yuning Xing , Lee Violet C. Ong , Bruce A. MacDonald , Henry Williams

The prevailing paradigm for improving large language models relies on offline training with human annotations or simulated environments, leaving the rich experience accumulated during real-world deployment entirely unexploited. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Tianzhu Ye , Li Dong , Qingxiu Dong , Xun Wu , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei

A continual learning agent should be able to build on top of existing knowledge to learn on new data quickly while minimizing forgetting. Current intelligent systems based on neural network function approximators arguably do the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Khurram Javed , Martha White

Multi-Label Online Continual Learning (MOCL) requires models to learn continuously from endless multi-label data streams, facing complex challenges including persistent catastrophic forgetting, potential missing labels, and uncontrollable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xinrui Wang , Shao-yuan Li , Jiaqiang Zhang , Songcan Chen

Offline Reinforcement Learning (ORL) enablesus to separately study the two interlinked processes of reinforcement learning: collecting informative experience and inferring optimal behaviour. The second step has been widely studied in the…

Modern decision-making systems, from robots to web recommendation engines, are expected to adapt: to user preferences, changing circumstances or even new tasks. Yet, it is still uncommon to deploy a dynamically learning agent (rather than a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Shengpu Tang , Felipe Vieira Frujeri , Dipendra Misra , Alex Lamb , John Langford , Paul Mineiro , Sebastian Kochman

Online Continual Learning (OCL) models continuously adapt to nonstationary data streams, usually without task information. These settings are complex and many traditional CL methods fail, while online methods (mainly replay-based) suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Edoardo Urettini , Antonio Carta

Continual learning is a promising machine learning paradigm to learn new tasks while retaining previously learned knowledge over streaming training data. Till now, rehearsal-based methods, keeping a small part of data from old tasks as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Quanziang Wang , Renzhen Wang , Yuexiang Li , Dong Wei , Kai Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Deyu Meng

Lack of performance when it comes to continual learning over non-stationary distributions of data remains a major challenge in scaling neural network learning to more human realistic settings. In this work we propose a new conceptualization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Matthew Riemer , Ignacio Cases , Robert Ajemian , Miao Liu , Irina Rish , Yuhai Tu , Gerald Tesauro

We present the extension of the Remember and Forget for Experience Replay (ReF-ER) algorithm to Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). ReF-ER was shown to outperform state of the art algorithms for continuous control in problems ranging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Pascal Weber , Daniel Wälchli , Mustafa Zeqiri , Petros Koumoutsakos

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) refers to the problem of learning policies entirely from a large batch of previously collected data. This problem setting offers the promise of utilizing such datasets to acquire policies without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Tianhe Yu , Garrett Thomas , Lantao Yu , Stefano Ermon , James Zou , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn , Tengyu Ma

Neural operators generally demonstrate strong predictive performance on in-distribution (ID) problems. However, a critical limitation of existing methods is their significant performance degradation when encountering out-of-distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yizheng Wang , Mohammad Sadegh Eshaghi , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk , Yinghua Liu

Behavior cloning (BC) is often practical for robot learning because it allows a policy to be trained offline without rewards, by supervised learning on expert demonstrations. However, BC does not effectively leverage what we will refer to…