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Machine unlearning aims to remove knowledge of the specific training data in a well-trained model. Currently, machine unlearning methods typically handle all forgetting data in a single batch, removing the corresponding knowledge all at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shaofei Shen , Chenhao Zhang , Yawen Zhao , Alina Bialkowski , Weitong Chen , Miao Xu

A unique cognitive capability of humans consists in their ability to acquire new knowledge and skills from a sequence of experiences. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence systems are good at learning only the last given task without being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Fei Ye , Adrian G. Bors

A continual learning agent learns online with a non-stationary and never-ending stream of data. The key to such learning process is to overcome the catastrophic forgetting of previously seen data, which is a well known problem of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Rahaf Aljundi , Min Lin , Baptiste Goujaud , Yoshua Bengio

Methods proposed in the literature towards continual deep learning typically operate in a task-based sequential learning setup. A sequence of tasks is learned, one at a time, with all data of current task available but not of previous or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Rahaf Aljundi , Klaas Kelchtermans , Tinne Tuytelaars

One of the challenges in deploying a machine learning model is that the model's performance degrades as the operating environment changes. To maintain the performance, streaming active learning is used, in which the model is retrained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Shota Horiguchi , Kota Dohi , Yohei Kawaguchi

Continual learning, the setting where a learning agent is faced with a never ending stream of data, continues to be a great challenge for modern machine learning systems. In particular the online or "single-pass through the data" setting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Rahaf Aljundi , Lucas Caccia , Eugene Belilovsky , Massimo Caccia , Min Lin , Laurent Charlin , Tinne Tuytelaars

Continual learning refers to the ability of humans and animals to incrementally learn over time in a given environment. Trying to simulate this learning process in machines is a challenging task, also due to the inherent difficulty in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Enrico Meloni , Alessandro Betti , Lapo Faggi , Simone Marullo , Matteo Tiezzi , Stefano Melacci

Continual learning is an online paradigm where a learner continually accumulates knowledge from different tasks encountered over sequential time steps. Importantly, the learner is required to extend and update its knowledge without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-16 Tameem Adel

Humans can learn a variety of concepts and skills incrementally over the course of their lives while exhibiting many desirable properties, such as continual learning without forgetting, forward transfer and backward transfer of knowledge,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Charles X. Ling , Tanner Bohn

This paper introduces a new lifelong learning solution where a single model is trained for a sequence of tasks. The main challenge that vision systems face in this context is catastrophic forgetting: as they tend to adapt to the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Amal Rannen Triki , Rahaf Aljundi , Mathew B. Blaschko , Tinne Tuytelaars

Continual learning refers to the capability of a machine learning model to learn and adapt to new information, without compromising its performance on previously learned tasks. Although several studies have investigated continual learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Jingrui Hou , Georgina Cosma , Axel Finke

Continual learning in online scenario aims to learn a sequence of new tasks from data stream using each data only once for training, which is more realistic than in offline mode assuming data from new task are all available. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

For the goal of strong artificial intelligence that can mimic human-level intelligence, AI systems would have the ability to adapt to ever-changing scenarios and learn new knowledge continuously without forgetting previously acquired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Haozhen Situ , Tianxiang Lu , Minghua Pan , Lvzhou Li

Recognising human activities from streaming videos poses unique challenges to learning algorithms: predictive models need to be scalable, incrementally trainable, and must remain bounded in size even when the data stream is arbitrarily…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-06 Rocco De Rosa , Ilaria Gori , Fabio Cuzzolin , Barbara Caputo , Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi

Continual learning (CL) aims to enable information systems to learn from a continuous data stream across time. However, it is difficult for existing deep learning architectures to learn a new task without largely forgetting previously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Magdalena Biesialska , Katarzyna Biesialska , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Lifelong learning requires models that can continuously learn from sequential streams of data without suffering catastrophic forgetting due to shifts in data distributions. Deep learning models have thrived in the non-sequential learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Nithin Holla , Pushkar Mishra , Helen Yannakoudakis , Ekaterina Shutova

Learning with streaming data has attracted much attention during the past few years. Though most studies consider data stream with fixed features, in real practice the features may be evolvable. For example, features of data gathered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Bo-Jian Hou , Lijun Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Continual learning refers to the ability of a biological or artificial system to seamlessly learn from continuous streams of information while preventing catastrophic forgetting, i.e., a condition in which new incoming information strongly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-04 German I. Parisi , Christopher Kanan

We introduce a lifelong imitation learning framework that enables continual policy refinement across sequential tasks under realistic memory and data constraints. Our approach departs from conventional experience replay by operating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Fanqi Yu , Matteo Tiezzi , Tommaso Apicella , Cigdem Beyan , Vittorio Murino