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Continual fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) is becoming increasingly crucial as these models are deployed in dynamic environments where tasks and data distributions evolve over time. While strong adaptability enables rapid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yiyang Lu , Yu He , Jianlong Chen , Hongyuan Zha

Deep generative replay has emerged as a promising approach for continual learning in decision-making tasks. This approach addresses the problem of catastrophic forgetting by leveraging the generation of trajectories from previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 William Yue , Bo Liu , Peter Stone

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

Continual learning needs to overcome catastrophic forgetting of the past. Memory replay of representative old training samples has been shown as an effective solution, and achieves the state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Liyuan Wang , Xingxing Zhang , Kuo Yang , Longhui Yu , Chongxuan Li , Lanqing Hong , Shifeng Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Yi Zhong , Jun Zhu

Differential replication through copying refers to the process of replicating the decision behavior of a machine learning model using another model that possesses enhanced features and attributes. This process is relevant when external…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Nahuel Statuto , Irene Unceta , Jordi Nin , Oriol Pujol

One of the objectives of continual learning is to prevent catastrophic forgetting in learning multiple tasks sequentially, and the existing solutions have been driven by the conceptualization of the plasticity-stability dilemma. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Seungyub Han , Yeongmo Kim , Taehyun Cho , Jungwoo Lee

Previous research on code intelligence usually trains a deep learning model on a fixed dataset in an offline manner. However, in real-world scenarios, new code repositories emerge incessantly, and the carried new knowledge is beneficial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Shuzheng Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Cuiyun Gao , Chaozheng Wang

This paper investigates continual learning for semantic parsing. In this setting, a neural semantic parser learns tasks sequentially without accessing full training data from previous tasks. Direct application of the SOTA continual learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zhuang Li , Lizhen Qu , Gholamreza Haffari

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow instructions with various constraints. Despite the encouraging results, RL improvement inevitably relies on sampling successful, high-quality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Kongcheng Zhang , Qi Yao , Shunyu Liu , Wenjian Zhang , Min Cen , Yang Zhou , Wenkai Fang , Yiru Zhao , Baisheng Lai , Mingli Song

Continual learning aims to learn continuously from a stream of tasks and data in an online-learning fashion, being capable of exploiting what was learned previously to improve current and future tasks while still being able to perform well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Quang Pham , Doyen Sahoo , Chenghao Liu , Steven C. H Hoi

Image compression emerges as a pivotal tool in the efficient handling and transmission of digital images. Its ability to substantially reduce file size not only facilitates enhanced data storage capacity but also potentially brings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Justin Yang , Zhihao Duan , Andrew Peng , Yuning Huang , Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

The practicality of a video surveillance system is adversely limited by the amount of queries that can be placed on human resources and their vigilance in response. To transcend this limitation, a major effort under way is to include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Samaneh Khoshrou , Jaime S. Cardoso , Luis F. Teixeira

Continual learning aims to acquire tasks sequentially without catastrophic forgetting, yet standard strategies face a core tradeoff: regularization-based methods (e.g., EWC) can overconstrain updates when task optima are weakly overlapping,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zekun Wang , Anant Gupta , Christopher J. MacLellan

Neural networks are prone to catastrophic forgetting when trained incrementally on different tasks. Popular incremental learning methods mitigate such forgetting by retaining a subset of previously seen samples and replaying them during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Kevin Thandiackal , Tiziano Portenier , Andrea Giovannini , Maria Gabrani , Orcun Goksel

World models power some of the most efficient reinforcement learning algorithms. In this work, we showcase that they can be harnessed for continual learning - a situation when the agent faces changing environments. World models typically…

Continual lifelong learning is essential to many applications. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective approach to continual deep learning. Our approach leverages the principles of deep model compression, critical weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Steven C. Y. Hung , Cheng-Hao Tu , Cheng-En Wu , Chien-Hung Chen , Yi-Ming Chan , Chu-Song Chen

Replay-based methods have proved their effectiveness on online continual learning by rehearsing past samples from an auxiliary memory. With many efforts made on improving training schemes based on the memory, however, the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jianyang Gu , Kai Wang , Wei Jiang , Yang You

Continual learning remains a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence, with catastrophic forgetting posing a significant barrier to deploying neural networks in dynamic environments. Inspired by biological memory consolidation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Goutham Nalagatla , Shreyas Grandhe

In many real-world scenarios, data to train machine learning models becomes available over time. Unfortunately, these models struggle to continually learn new concepts without forgetting what has been learnt in the past. This phenomenon is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Beyza Ermis , Giovanni Zappella , Martin Wistuba , Aditya Rawal , Cedric Archambeau

Continual Learning is a burgeoning domain in next-generation AI, focusing on training neural networks over a sequence of tasks akin to human learning. While CL provides an edge over traditional supervised learning, its central challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Guangji Bai , Qilong Zhao , Xiaoyang Jiang , Yifei Zhang , Liang Zhao