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Humans learn all their life long. They accumulate knowledge from a sequence of learning experiences and remember the essential concepts without forgetting what they have learned previously. Artificial neural networks struggle to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Timothée Lesort

Deep neural networks are susceptible to catastrophic forgetting when trained on sequential tasks. Various continual learning (CL) methods often rely on exemplar buffers or/and network expansion for balancing model stability and plasticity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Depeng Li , Tianqi Wang , Junwei Chen , Qining Ren , Kenji Kawaguchi , Zhigang Zeng

Continual Learning (CL) involves adapting the prior Deep Neural Network (DNN) knowledge to new tasks, without forgetting the old ones. However, modern CL techniques focus on provisioning memory capabilities to existing DNN models rather…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Anestis Kaimakamidis , Ioannis Pitas

Multi-task learning (MTL) is a powerful approach in deep learning that leverages the information from multiple tasks during training to improve model performance. In medical imaging, MTL has shown great potential to solve various tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sangwook Kim , Thomas G. Purdie , Chris McIntosh

Continual learning (CL) is crucial for language models to dynamically adapt to the evolving real-world demands. To mitigate the catastrophic forgetting problem in CL, data replay has been proven a simple and effective strategy, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jinghan He , Haiyun Guo , Kuan Zhu , Zihan Zhao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao 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

Continual Learning (CL) aims to enable models to continuously acquire new knowledge from a sequence of tasks with avoiding the forgetting of learned information. However, existing CL methods only rely on the parameters of the most recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Haomiao Qiu , Miao Zhang , Ziyue Qiao , Liqiang Nie

AI-powered edge devices currently lack the ability to adapt their embedded inference models to the ever-changing environment. To tackle this issue, Continual Learning (CL) strategies aim at incrementally improving the decision capabilities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Leonardo Ravaglia , Manuele Rusci , Alessandro Capotondi , Francesco Conti , Lorenzo Pellegrini , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Maltoni , Luca Benini

Continual learning involves training neural networks incrementally for new tasks while retaining the knowledge of previous tasks. However, efficiently fine-tuning the model for sequential tasks with minimal computational resources remains a…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Nithish Muthuchamy Selvaraj , Xiaobao Guo , Adams Kong , Bingquan Shen , Alex Kot

Continual lifelong learning requires an agent or model to learn many sequentially ordered tasks, building on previous knowledge without catastrophically forgetting it. Much work has gone towards preventing the default tendency of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Shawn Beaulieu , Lapo Frati , Thomas Miconi , Joel Lehman , Kenneth O. Stanley , Jeff Clune , Nick Cheney

The dynamic expansion architecture is becoming popular in class incremental learning, mainly due to its advantages in alleviating catastrophic forgetting. However, task confusion is not well assessed within this framework, e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Bingchen Huang , Zhineng Chen , Peng Zhou , Jiayin Chen , Zuxuan Wu

Continual learning (CL) has been a critical topic in contemporary deep neural network applications, where higher levels of both forward and backward transfer are desirable for an effective CL performance. Existing CL strategies primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yanru Wu , Jianning Wang , Xiangyu Chen , Enming Zhang , Yang Tan , Hanbing Liu , Yang Li

We present a novel attention mechanism: Causal Attention (CATT), to remove the ever-elusive confounding effect in existing attention-based vision-language models. This effect causes harmful bias that misleads the attention module to focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Xu Yang , Hanwang Zhang , Guojun Qi , Jianfei Cai

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) demonstrate remarkable intelligence but struggle with emerging tasks unseen during training in real-world applications. Training separate models for each new task is usually impractical. Multi-task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xiao Zhang , Kangsheng Wang , Tianyu Hu , Huimin Ma

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

Catastrophic forgetting means that a trained neural network model gradually forgets the previously learned tasks when being retrained on new tasks. Overcoming the forgetting problem is a major problem in machine learning. Numerous continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yujiang He , Bernhard Sick

A fundamental challenge in Continual Learning (CL) is catastrophic forgetting, where adapting to new tasks degrades the performance on previous ones. While the field has evolved with diverse methods, this rapid surge in diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Wenbin Li , Shangge Liu , Borui Kang , Yiyang Chen , KaXuan Lew , Yang Chen , Yinghuan Shi , Lei Wang , Yang Gao , Jiebo Luo

The field of Continual Learning (CL) has inspired numerous researchers over the years, leading to increasingly advanced countermeasures to the issue of catastrophic forgetting. Most studies have focused on the single-class scenario, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Martin Menabue , Emanuele Frascaroli , Matteo Boschini , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Deep neural networks often severely forget previously learned knowledge when learning new knowledge. Various continual learning (CL) methods have been proposed to handle such a catastrophic forgetting issue from different perspectives and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Chao Wu , Xiaobin Chang , Ruixuan Wang

Continual Learning (CL) focuses on learning from dynamic and changing data distributions while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Various methods have been developed to address the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhenyi Wang , Yan Li , Li Shen , Heng Huang