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Continual acquisition of novel experience without interfering previously learned knowledge, i.e. continual learning, is critical for artificial neural networks, but limited by catastrophic forgetting. A neural network adjusts its parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Liyuan Wang , Bo Lei , Qian Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

In this paper, we propose a novel ensembling technique for deep neural networks, which is able to drastically reduce the required memory compared to alternative approaches. In particular, we propose to extract multiple sub-networks from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Aurelio Uncini

Understanding the intricate operations of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) mechanistically is pivotal for advancing their capabilities and applications. In this pursuit, we propose the Episodic Memory Theory (EMT), illustrating that RNNs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Arjun Karuvally , Peter Delmastro , Hava T. Siegelmann

Continual learning is the problem of learning new tasks or knowledge while protecting old knowledge and ideally generalizing from old experience to learn new tasks faster. Neural networks trained by stochastic gradient descent often degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 David Rolnick , Arun Ahuja , Jonathan Schwarz , Timothy P. Lillicrap , Greg Wayne

Humans and most animals inherently possess a distinctive capacity to continually acquire novel experiences and accumulate worldly knowledge over time. This ability, termed continual learning, is also critical for deep neural networks (DNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Geng Liu , Fei Zhu , Rong Feng , Zhiqiang Yi , Shiqi Wang , Gaofeng Meng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

In the last few years, the memory requirements to train state-of-the-art neural networks have far exceeded the DRAM capacities of modern hardware accelerators. This has necessitated the development of efficient algorithms to train these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Siddharth Singh , Abhinav Bhatele

Catastrophic forgetting refers to the tendency that a neural network "forgets" the previous learned knowledge upon learning new tasks. Prior methods have been focused on overcoming this problem on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Huihui Liu , Yiding Yang , Xinchao Wang

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained using Equilibrium Propagation (EP), a biologically plausible training algorithm, have demonstrated strong performance in various tasks such as image classification and reinforcement learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yoshimasa Kubo , Jean Erik Delanois , Maxim Bazhenov

Topological deep learning is a rapidly growing field that pertains to the development of deep learning models for data supported on topological domains such as simplicial complexes, cell complexes, and hypergraphs, which generalize many…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the backbone for a myriad of tasks pertaining to graphs and similar topological data structures. While many works have been established in domains related to node and graph classification/regression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Appan Rakaraddi , Siew Kei Lam , Mahardhika Pratama , Marcus De Carvalho

Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Yuan , Quanquan Li , Jing Shao , Junjie Yan

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…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have provided brilliant performance across various tasks. However, this success often comes at the cost of unnecessarily large model sizes, high computational demands, and substantial memory footprints.…

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By replacing standard non-linearities with polynomial activations, Polynomial Neural Networks (PNNs) are pivotal for applications such as privacy-preserving inference via Homomorphic Encryption (HE). However, training PNNs effectively…

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Despite huge success, deep networks are unable to learn effectively in sequential multitask learning settings as they forget the past learned tasks after learning new tasks. Inspired from complementary learning systems theory, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Mohammad Rostami , Soheil Kolouri , Praveen K. Pilly

In modern industrial and logistics environments, the rapid expansion of fast delivery services has heightened the demand for storage systems that combine high efficiency with increased density. Multi-deep autonomous vehicle storage and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Funing Li , Yuan Tian , Ruben Noortwyck , Jifeng Zhou , Liming Kuang , Robert Schulz

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

Artificial neural networks thrive in solving the classification problem for a particular rigid task, acquiring knowledge through generalized learning behaviour from a distinct training phase. The resulting network resembles a static entity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Matthias De Lange , Rahaf Aljundi , Marc Masana , Sarah Parisot , Xu Jia , Ales Leonardis , Gregory Slabaugh , Tinne Tuytelaars

In the fields of brain-computer interaction and cognitive neuroscience, effective decoding of auditory signals from task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is key to understanding how the brain processes complex auditory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-05 Wanli Ma , Xuegang Tang , Jin Gu , Ying Wang , Yuling Xia

Continual Learning is an unresolved challenge, whose relevance increases when considering modern applications. Unlike the human brain, trained deep neural networks suffer from a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting, wherein they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shahar Shaul-Ariel , Daphna Weinshall