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Offline reinforcement learning, by learning from a fixed dataset, makes it possible to learn agent behaviors without interacting with the environment. However, depending on the quality of the offline dataset, such pre-trained agents may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yi Zhao , Rinu Boney , Alexander Ilin , Juho Kannala , Joni Pajarinen

Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces significant challenges in adaptive healthcare interventions, such as dementia care, where data is scarce, decisions require interpretability, and underlying patient-state dynamic are complex and causal in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenzheng Zhao , Ran Zhang , Ruth Palan Lopez , Shu-Fen Wung , Fengpei Yuan

Continual learning (CL) enables deep neural networks to adapt to ever-changing data distributions. In practice, there may be scenarios where annotation is costly, leading to active continual learning (ACL), which performs active learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Jaehyun Park , Dongmin Park , Jae-Gil Lee

Continual learning, also known as lifelong learning or incremental learning, refers to the process by which a model learns from a stream of incoming data over time. A common problem in continual learning is the classification layer's bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Haoran Chen , Micah Goldblum , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

In recent years, Contrastive Learning (CL) has become a predominant representation learning paradigm for time series. Most existing methods manually build specific CL Strategies (CLS) by human heuristics for certain datasets and tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Baoyu Jing , Yansen Wang , Guoxin Sui , Jing Hong , Jingrui He , Yuqing Yang , Dongsheng Li , Kan Ren

Traditional continual learning methods prioritize knowledge retention and focus primarily on mitigating catastrophic forgetting, implicitly assuming that the data distribution of previously learned tasks remains static. This overlooks the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alif Ashrafee , Jedrzej Kozal , Michal Wozniak , Bartosz Krawczyk

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

In this paper, we demonstrate the efficacy of transfer learning and continuous learning for various automatic speech recognition (ASR) tasks. We start with a pre-trained English ASR model and show that transfer learning can be effectively…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Jocelyn Huang , Oleksii Kuchaiev , Patrick O'Neill , Vitaly Lavrukhin , Jason Li , Adriana Flores , Georg Kucsko , Boris Ginsburg

While biological intelligence grows organically as new knowledge is gathered throughout life, Artificial Neural Networks forget catastrophically whenever they face a changing training data distribution. Rehearsal-based Continual Learning…

In this paper, we present our initial efforts for building a code-switching (CS) speech recognition system leveraging existing acoustic models (AMs) and language models (LMs), i.e., no training required, and specifically targeting…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Zhen Huang , Xiaodan Zhuang , Daben Liu , Xiaoqiang Xiao , Yuchen Zhang , Sabato Marco Siniscalchi

Inspired by the success of Self-supervised learning (SSL) in learning visual representations from unlabeled data, a few recent works have studied SSL in the context of continual learning (CL), where multiple tasks are learned sequentially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Li Yang , Sen Lin , Fan Zhang , Junshan Zhang , Deliang Fan

Continual Learning (CL) methods aim to learn from a sequence of tasks while avoiding the challenge of forgetting previous knowledge. We present DREAM-CL, a novel CL method for ECG arrhythmia detection that introduces dynamic prototype…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Sana Rahmani , Reetam Chatterjee , Ali Etemad , Javad Hashemi

Continual learning (CL) is an approach to address catastrophic forgetting, which refers to forgetting previously learned knowledge by neural networks when trained on new tasks or data distributions. The adversarial robustness has decomposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Hikmat Khan , Nidhal C. Bouaynaya , Ghulam Rasool

Continual learning (CL) is a fundamental topic in machine learning, where the goal is to train a model with continuously incoming data and tasks. Due to the memory limit, we cannot store all the historical data, and therefore confront the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weichen Lin , Jiaxiang Chen , Ruomin Huang , Hu Ding

Continual learning focuses on learning non-stationary data distribution without forgetting previous knowledge. Rehearsal-based approaches are commonly used to combat catastrophic forgetting. However, these approaches suffer from a problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hikmat Khan , Ghulam Rasool , Nidhal Carla Bouaynaya

Online continual learning (OCL) aims to enable model learning from a non-stationary data stream to continuously acquire new knowledge as well as retain the learnt one, under the constraints of having limited system size and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Sheng-Feng Yu , Wei-Chen Chiu

In this work, we propose a new automatic speech recognition (ASR) system based on feature learning and an end-to-end training procedure for air traffic control (ATC) systems. The proposed model integrates the feature learning block,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Peng Fan , Dongyue Guo , Yi Lin , Bo Yang , Jianwei Zhang

Scenarios in which restrictions in data transfer and storage limit the possibility to compose a single dataset -- also exploiting different data sources -- to perform a batch-based training procedure, make the development of robust models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Lorenzo Pellegrini , Guido Borghi , Annalisa Franco , Davide Maltoni

This paper studies continual learning (CL) of a sequence of aspect sentiment classification (ASC) tasks. Although some CL techniques have been proposed for document sentiment classification, we are not aware of any CL work on ASC. A CL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zixuan Ke , Hu Xu , Bing Liu

A wide variety of methods have been developed to enable lifelong learning in conventional deep neural networks. However, to succeed, these methods require a `batch' of samples to be available and visited multiple times during training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Soumya Banerjee , Vinay Kumar Verma , Toufiq Parag , Maneesh Singh , Vinay P. Namboodiri