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A novel model called error loss network (ELN) is proposed to build an error loss function for supervised learning. The ELN is in structure similar to a radial basis function (RBF) neural network, but its input is an error sample and output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Badong Chen , Yunfei Zheng , Pengju Ren

Despite significant advances, continual learning models still suffer from catastrophic forgetting when exposed to incrementally available data from non-stationary distributions. Rehearsal approaches alleviate the problem by maintaining and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-02 Binh Tang , David S. Matteson

Catastrophic forgetting is a significant challenge in continual learning, in which a model loses prior knowledge when it is fine-tuned on new tasks. This problem is particularly critical for large language models (LLMs) undergoing continual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Süalp , Mina Rezaei

Neural Networks (NNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Such inputs differ only slightly from their benign counterparts yet provoke misclassifications of the attacked NNs. The required perturbations to craft the examples are often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

In spite of remarkable success of the convolutional neural networks on semantic segmentation, they suffer from catastrophic forgetting: a significant performance drop for the already learned classes when new classes are added on the data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Onur Tasar , Yuliya Tarabalka , Pierre Alliez

Catastrophic forgetting is a notorious issue in deep learning, referring to the fact that Deep Neural Networks (DNN) could forget the knowledge about earlier tasks when learning new tasks. To address this issue, continual learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Li Yang , Sen Lin , Junshan Zhang , Deliang Fan

While the concept of a Sparse Neural Network has been researched for some time, researchers have only recently made notable progress in the matter. Techniques like Sparse Evolutionary Training allow for significantly lower computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Adam Dubowski

With the explosive growth of data, continual learning capability is increasingly important for neural networks. Due to catastrophic forgetting, neural networks inevitably forget the knowledge of old tasks after learning new ones. In visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Shengyang Huang , Jianwen Mo

In Continual Learning, a Neural Network is trained on a stream of data whose distribution shifts over time. Under these assumptions, it is especially challenging to improve on classes appearing later in the stream while remaining accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Pietro Buzzega , Matteo Boschini , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Recurrent neural networks with differentiable attention mechanisms have had success in generative and classification tasks. We show that the classification performance of such models can be enhanced by guiding a randomly initialized model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Jack Lindsey

Neural networks are achieving state of the art and sometimes super-human performance on learning tasks across a variety of domains. Whenever these problems require learning in a continual or sequential manner, however, neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Mehrdad Farajtabar , Navid Azizan , Alex Mott , Ang Li

Multitask learning assumes that models capable of learning from multiple tasks can achieve better quality and efficiency via knowledge transfer, a key feature of human learning. Though, state of the art ML models rely on high customization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Andrea Gesmundo , Jeff Dean

Deep learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting of the classes in the older phases as they get trained on the classes introduced in the new phase in the class-incremental learning setting. In this work, we show that the effect of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Mohammed Asad Karim , Indu Joshi , Pratik Mazumder , Pravendra Singh

Memory replay may be key to learning in biological brains, which manage to learn new tasks continually without catastrophically interfering with previous knowledge. On the other hand, artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde

Current deep learning methods are regarded as favorable if they empirically perform well on dedicated test sets. This mentality is seamlessly reflected in the resurfacing area of continual learning, where consecutively arriving data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Martin Mundt , Yongwon Hong , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

Standard artificial neural networks suffer from the well-known issue of catastrophic forgetting, making continual or lifelong learning difficult for machine learning. In recent years, numerous methods have been proposed for continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Gido M. van de Ven , Andreas S. Tolias

Lifelong learning in artificial intelligence (AI) aims to mimic the biological brain's ability to continuously learn and retain knowledge, yet it faces challenges such as catastrophic forgetting. Recent neuroscience research suggests that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jin Du , Xinhe Zhang , Hao Shen , Xun Xian , Ganghua Wang , Jiawei Zhang , Yuhong Yang , Na Li , Jia Liu , Jie Ding

Continual learning (CL) empowers AI systems to progressively acquire knowledge from non-stationary data streams. However, catastrophic forgetting remains a critical challenge. In this work, we identify attention drift in Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yue Lu , Xiangyu Zhou , Shizhou Zhang , Yinghui Xing , Guoqiang Liang , Wencong Zhang

As neural networks are increasingly deployed in dynamic environments, they face the challenge of catastrophic forgetting, the tendency to overwrite previously learned knowledge when adapting to new tasks, resulting in severe performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Anika Singh , Aayush Dhaulakhandi , Varun Chopade , Likhith Malipati , David Martinez , Kevin Zhu

Continual learning is a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence that requires networks to acquire new knowledge while preserving previously learned representations. Despite the success of various approaches, most existing paradigms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Patryk Krukowski , Jan Miksa , Piotr Helm , Jacek Tabor , Paweł Wawrzyński , Przemysław Spurek