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Techniques for automatically designing deep neural network architectures such as reinforcement learning based approaches have recently shown promising results. However, their success is based on vast computational resources (e.g. hundreds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Han Cai , Tianyao Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Jun Wang

The brain is not only constrained by energy needed to fuel computation, but it is also constrained by energy needed to form memories. Experiments have shown that learning simple conditioning tasks already carries a significant metabolic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mark CW van Rossum

This paper addresses the challenge of incremental learning in growing graphs with increasingly complex tasks. The goal is to continuously train a graph model to handle new tasks while retaining proficiency in previous tasks via memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ziyue Qiao , Junren Xiao , Qingqiang Sun , Meng Xiao , Xiao Luo , Hui Xiong

Recently, the use of bio-inspired learning techniques such as Hebbian learning and its closely-related Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) variant have drawn significant attention for the design of compute-efficient AI systems that can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ali Safa

Learning-to-learn or meta-learning leverages data-driven inductive bias to increase the efficiency of learning on a novel task. This approach encounters difficulty when transfer is not advantageous, for instance, when tasks are considerably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Ghassen Jerfel , Erin Grant , Thomas L. Griffiths , Katherine Heller

Biological agents are known to learn many different tasks over the course of their lives, and to be able to revisit previous tasks and behaviors with little to no loss in performance. In contrast, artificial agents are prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Ta-Chu Kao , Kristopher T. Jensen , Gido M. van de Ven , Alberto Bernacchia , Guillaume Hennequin

The promise of learning to learn for robotics rests on the hope that by extracting some information about the learning process itself we can speed up subsequent similar learning tasks. Here, we introduce a computationally efficient online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Franziska Meier , Daniel Kappler , Stefan Schaal

Critical aspects of computational imaging systems, such as experimental design and image priors, can be optimized through deep networks formed by the unrolled iterations of classical model-based reconstructions (termed physics-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Michael Kellman , Kevin Zhang , Jon Tamir , Emrah Bostan , Michael Lustig , Laura Waller

We present an algorithm for learning decision trees using stochastic gradient information as the source of supervision. In contrast to previous approaches to gradient-based tree learning, our method operates in the incremental learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-25 Henry Gouk , Bernhard Pfahringer , Eibe Frank

The ability to learn continually without forgetting the past tasks is a desired attribute for artificial learning systems. Existing approaches to enable such learning in artificial neural networks usually rely on network growth, importance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Gobinda Saha , Isha Garg , Kaushik Roy

Catastrophic forgetting can be trivially alleviated by keeping all data from previous tasks in memory. Therefore, minimizing the memory footprint while maximizing the amount of relevant information is crucial to the challenge of continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Christiaan Lamers , Ahmed Nabil Belbachir , Thomas Bäck , Niki van Stein

Among the main features of biological intelligence are energy efficiency, capacity for continual adaptation, and risk management via uncertainty quantification. Neuromorphic engineering has been thus far mostly driven by the goal of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone

Autonomous robots need to interact with unknown, unstructured and changing environments, constantly facing novel challenges. Therefore, continuous online adaptation for lifelong-learning and the need of sample-efficient mechanisms to adapt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Daniel Tanneberg , Jan Peters , Elmar Rueckert

With an ever-growing number of parameters defining increasingly complex networks, Deep Learning has led to several breakthroughs surpassing human performance. As a result, data movement for these millions of model parameters causes a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Christopher Wolters , Brady Taylor , Edward Hanson , Xiaoxuan Yang , Ulf Schlichtmann , Yiran Chen

The human brain is the gold standard of adaptive learning. It not only can learn and benefit from experience, but also can adapt to new situations. In contrast, deep neural networks only learn one sophisticated but fixed mapping from inputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Shixian Wen , Amanda Rios , Yunhao Ge , Laurent Itti

Continual learning aims to enable a single model to learn a sequence of tasks without catastrophic forgetting. Top-performing methods usually require a rehearsal buffer to store past pristine examples for experience replay, which, however,…

Continual learning -- the ability to acquire knowledge incrementally without forgetting previous skills -- is fundamental to natural intelligence. While the human brain excels at this, artificial neural networks struggle with "catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Aoi Otani

Many deployed learning systems must update models on streaming data under memory constraints. The default strategy, sequential fine-tuning on each new phase, is architecture-agnostic but often suffers catastrophic forgetting when later…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wenzhang Du

Sequential learning in deep models often suffers from challenges such as catastrophic forgetting and loss of plasticity, largely due to the permutation dependence of gradient-based algorithms, where the order of training data impacts the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Akhilan Boopathy , Aneesh Muppidi , Peggy Yang , Abhiram Iyer , William Yue , Ila Fiete

Continual learning (CL) studies the problem of learning a sequence of tasks, one at a time, such that the learning of each new task does not lead to the deterioration in performance on the previously seen ones while exploiting previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Ammar Shaker , Francesco Alesiani , Shujian Yu , Wenzhe Yin