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Continual learning (CL) aims to learn new tasks without forgetting previous tasks. However, existing CL methods require a large amount of raw data, which is often unavailable due to copyright considerations and privacy risks. Instead,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Enneng Yang , Zhenyi Wang , Li Shen , Nan Yin , Tongliang Liu , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang , Dacheng Tao

In Continual learning (CL) balancing effective adaptation while combating catastrophic forgetting is a central challenge. Many of the recent best-performing methods utilize various forms of prior task data, e.g. a replay buffer, to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Nader Asadi , MohammadReza Davari , Sudhir Mudur , Rahaf Aljundi , Eugene Belilovsky

The ability of machine learning systems to learn continually is hindered by catastrophic forgetting, the tendency of neural networks to overwrite previously acquired knowledge when learning a new task. Existing methods mitigate this problem…

A fundamental and challenging problem in deep learning is catastrophic forgetting, i.e. the tendency of neural networks to fail to preserve the knowledge acquired from old tasks when learning new tasks. This problem has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Guanglei Yang , Enrico Fini , Dan Xu , Paolo Rota , Mingli Ding , Moin Nabi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci

Privacy concerns associated with machine learning models have driven research into machine unlearning, which aims to erase the memory of specific target training data from already trained models. This issue also arises in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yuyuan Li , Jiaming Zhang , Yixiu Liu , Chaochao Chen

Continual learning of new knowledge over time is one desirable capability for intelligent systems to recognize more and more classes of objects. Without or with very limited amount of old data stored, an intelligent system often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Zhuoyun Li , Changhong Zhong , Sijia Liu , Ruixuan Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Federated Learning (FL) is designed to protect the data privacy of each client during the training process by transmitting only models instead of the original data. However, the trained model may memorize certain information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Chen Wu , Sencun Zhu , Prasenjit Mitra

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,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Charles X. Ling , Tanner Bohn

Replay strategies are Continual Learning techniques which mitigate catastrophic forgetting by keeping a buffer of patterns from previous experiences, which are interleaved with new data during training. The amount of patterns stored in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Andrea Rosasco , Antonio Carta , Andrea Cossu , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Bacciu

Humans have a remarkable ability to quickly and effectively learn new concepts in a continuous manner without forgetting old knowledge. Though deep learning has made tremendous successes on various computer vision tasks, it faces challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kun Wu , Chengxiang Yin , Jian Tang , Zhiyuan Xu , Yanzhi Wang , Dejun Yang

Continual learning aims to learn knowledge of tasks observed in sequential time steps while mitigating the forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Existing methods were designed to learn a single modality (e.g., image) over time, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hyundong Jin , Eunwoo Kim

Continual learning is a subfield of machine learning, which aims to allow machine learning models to continuously learn on new data, by accumulating knowledge without forgetting what was learned in the past. In this work, we take a step…

The visual-question localized-answering (VQLA) system can serve as a knowledgeable assistant in surgical education. Except for providing text-based answers, the VQLA system can highlight the interested region for better surgical scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Long Bai , Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren

In contrast to batch learning where all training data is available at once, continual learning represents a family of methods that accumulate knowledge and learn continuously with data available in sequential order. Similar to the human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Haoxuan Qu , Hossein Rahmani , Li Xu , Bryan Williams , Jun Liu

Continual learning (CL) refers to the ability to continually learn over time by accommodating new knowledge while retaining previously learned experience. While this concept is inherent in human learning, current machine learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Anna Vettoruzzo , Joaquin Vanschoren , Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia , Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

Human intelligence gradually accepts new information and accumulates knowledge throughout the lifespan. However, deep learning models suffer from a catastrophic forgetting phenomenon, where they forget previous knowledge when acquiring new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jisu Han , Jaemin Na , Wonjun Hwang

Machine unlearning -- efficiently removing the effect of a small "forget set" of training data on a pre-trained machine learning model -- has recently attracted significant research interest. Despite this interest, however, recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kristian Georgiev , Roy Rinberg , Sung Min Park , Shivam Garg , Andrew Ilyas , Aleksander Madry , Seth Neel

Machine unlearning is a critical area of research aimed at safeguarding data privacy by enabling the removal of sensitive information from machine learning models. One unique challenge in this field is catastrophic unlearning, where erasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zhuoyi Peng , Yixuan Tang , Yi Yang

Continual learning (CL) aims to enable learning systems to acquire new knowledge constantly without forgetting previously learned information. CL faces the challenge of mitigating catastrophic forgetting while maintaining interpretability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lu Yu , Haoyu Han , Zhe Tao , Hantao Yao , Changsheng Xu

LLM unlearning is a technique to remove the impacts of undesirable knowledge from the model without retraining from scratch, which is indispensable towards trustworthy AI. Existing unlearning methods face significant limitations:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yisheng Zhong , Zhengbang Yang , Zhuangdi Zhu