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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

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

Self-paced learning (SPL) mimics the cognitive mechanism of humans and animals that gradually learns from easy to hard samples. One key issue in SPL is to obtain better weighting strategy that is determined by minimizer function. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Yanbo Fan , Ran He , Jian Liang , Bao-Gang Hu

While recent continual learning methods largely alleviate the catastrophic problem on toy-sized datasets, some issues remain to be tackled to apply them to real-world problem domains. First, a continual learning model should effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Jaehong Yoon , Saehoon Kim , Eunho Yang , Sung Ju Hwang

Recent studies on catastrophic forgetting during sequential learning typically focus on fixing the accuracy of the predictions for a previously learned task. In this paper we argue that the outputs of neural networks are subject to rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Yuwen Xiong , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Deep learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting when trained in an incremental learning setting. In this work, we propose a novel approach to address the task incremental learning problem, which involves training a model on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Pravendra Singh , Pratik Mazumder , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Weight regularization methods in continual learning (CL) alleviate catastrophic forgetting by assessing and penalizing changes to important model weights. Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) is a foundational and widely used approach within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuan Liu , Xiaobin Chang

Continual learning aims to incrementally acquire new concepts in data streams while resisting forgetting previous knowledge. With the rise of powerful pre-trained models (PTMs), there is a growing interest in training incremental learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Linglan Zhao , Xuerui Zhang , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding , Weiran Huang

Curriculum learning (CL) mimics human learning, in which easy samples are learned first, followed by harder samples, and has become an effective method for training deep networks. However, many existing automatic CL methods maintain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Wensheng Li , Yichao Tian , Hao Wang , Ruifeng Zhou , Hanting Guan , Chao Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Parameter-efficient continual learning aims to adapt pre-trained models to sequential tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Most existing approaches treat continual learning as avoiding interference with past updates,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hao Gu , Mao-Lin Luo , Zi-Hao Zhou , Han-Chen Zhang , Min-Ling Zhang , Tong Wei

Continual learning is a challenge for models with static architecture, as they fail to adapt to when data distributions evolve across tasks. We introduce a mathematical framework that jointly models architecture and weights in a Sobolev…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Allyson Hahn , Krishnan Raghavan

Continual learning aims to train a model incrementally on a sequence of tasks without forgetting previous knowledge. Although continual learning has been widely studied in computer vision, its application to Vision+Language tasks is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mavina Nikandrou , Lu Yu , Alessandro Suglia , Ioannis Konstas , Verena Rieser

Deep neural networks have shown remarkable performance when trained on independent and identically distributed data from a fixed set of classes. However, in real-world scenarios, it can be desirable to train models on a continuous stream of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Nicolas Michel , Giovanni Chierchia , Romain Negrel , Jean-François Bercher , Toshihiko Yamasaki

Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Aurelio Uncini

Loss of plasticity, trainability loss, and primacy bias have been identified as issues arising when training deep neural networks on sequences of tasks -- all referring to the increased difficulty in training on new tasks. We propose to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wesley Chung , Lynn Cherif , David Meger , Doina Precup

Solving goal-conditioned tasks with sparse rewards using self-supervised learning is promising because of its simplicity and stability over current reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. A recent work, called Goal-Conditioned Supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rui Yang , Yiming Lu , Wenzhe Li , Hao Sun , Meng Fang , Yali Du , Xiu Li , Lei Han , Chongjie Zhang

Continual learning aims to sequentially learn new tasks without forgetting previous tasks' knowledge (catastrophic forgetting). One factor that can cause forgetting is the interference between the gradients on losses from different tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xueying Bai , Jinghuan Shang , Yifan Sun , Niranjan Balasubramanian

In this paper, we propose a new Soft Confidence-Weighted (SCW) online learning scheme, which enables the conventional confidence-weighted learning method to handle non-separable cases. Unlike the previous confidence-weighted learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Jialei Wang , Peilin Zhao , Steven C. H. Hoi

Existing research on task incremental learning in continual learning has primarily focused on preventing catastrophic forgetting (CF). Although several techniques have achieved learning with no CF, they attain it by letting each task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Tatsuya Konishi , Mori Kurokawa , Chihiro Ono , Zixuan Ke , Gyuhak Kim , Bing Liu

Existing Continual Learning (CL) approaches have focused on addressing catastrophic forgetting by leveraging regularization methods, replay buffers, and task-specific components. However, realistic CL solutions must be shaped not only by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyung Hong , Theodore P. Pavlic