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Continual learning-the ability to learn many tasks in sequence-is critical for artificial learning systems. Yet standard training methods for deep networks often suffer from catastrophic forgetting, where learning new tasks erases knowledge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-12 Sebastian Lee , Sebastian Goldt , Andrew Saxe

Lifelong learning capabilities are crucial for artificial autonomous agents operating on real-world data, which is typically non-stationary and temporally correlated. In this work, we demonstrate that dynamically grown networks outperform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-03 German I. Parisi , Xu Ji , Stefan Wermter

Neural networks struggle in continual learning settings from catastrophic forgetting: when trials are blocked, new learning can overwrite the learning from previous blocks. Humans learn effectively in these settings, in some cases even…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-07 Jacob Russin , Maryam Zolfaghar , Seongmin A. Park , Erie Boorman , Randall C. O'Reilly

The surge of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models, has driven the rapid development of large-scale machine learning clusters. Executing distributed models on these clusters is often constrained by communication…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 William Won , Midhilesh Elavazhagan , Sudarshan Srinivasan , Swati Gupta , Tushar Krishna

Catastrophic forgetting affects the training of neural networks, limiting their ability to learn multiple tasks sequentially. From the perspective of the well established plasticity-stability dilemma, neural networks tend to be overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Seyed Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Razvan Pascanu , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Biological synapses effortlessly balance memory retention and flexibility, yet artificial neural networks still struggle with the extremes of catastrophic forgetting and catastrophic remembering. Here, we introduce Metaplasticity from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Djohan Bonnet , Kellian Cottart , Tifenn Hirtzlin , Tarcisius Januel , Thomas Dalgaty , Elisa Vianello , Damien Querlioz

Artificial neural networks, trained to perform cognitive tasks, have recently been used as models for neural recordings from animals performing these tasks. While some progress has been made in performing such comparisons, the evolution of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-03 Chen Beer , Omri Barak

Catastrophic forgetting remains a fundamental challenge for neural networks when tasks are trained sequentially. In this work, we reformulate continual learning as a control problem where learning and preservation signals compete within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Sander de Haan , Yassine Taoudi-Benchekroun , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Benjamin F. Grewe

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

Though neural networks have achieved much progress in various applications, it is still highly challenging for them to learn from a continuous stream of tasks without forgetting. Continual learning, a new learning paradigm, aims to solve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Ju Xu , Jin Ma , Zhanxing Zhu

In this paper, the use of third-generation machine learning, also known as spiking neural network architecture, for continuous learning was investigated and compared to conventional models. The experimentation was divided into three…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 C. Tanner Fredieu

The two main impediments to continual learning are catastrophic forgetting and memory limitations on the storage of data. To cope with these challenges, we propose a novel, cognitively-inspired approach which trains autoencoders with Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

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

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Beyza Ermis , Giovanni Zappella , Martin Wistuba , Aditya Rawal , Cedric Archambeau

Engineers learn from every design they create, building intuition that helps them quickly identify promising solutions for new problems. Topology optimization (TO) - a well-established computational method for designing structures with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Igor Kuszczak , Gawel Kus , Federico Bosi , Miguel A. Bessa

Neural networks often suffer from catastrophic interference (CI): performance on previously learned tasks drops off significantly when learning a new task. This contrasts strongly with humans, who can continually learn new tasks without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Atith Gandhi , Raj Sanjay Shah , Vijay Marupudi , Sashank Varma

In this paper, we consider networks of deterministic spiking neurons, firing synchronously at discrete times; such spiking neural networks are inspired by networks of neurons and synapses that occur in brains. We consider the problem of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Nancy Lynch , Mien Brabeeba Wang

Training a neural network for a classification task typically assumes that the data to train are given from the beginning. However, in the real world, additional data accumulate gradually and the model requires additional training without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Jangho Kim , Jeesoo Kim , Nojun Kwak

The growing interest in brain-inspired computational models arises from the remarkable problem-solving efficiency of the human brain. Action recognition, a complex task in computational neuroscience, has received significant attention due…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Alireza Nadafian , Milad Mozafari , Timothée Masquelier , Mohammad Ganjtabesh

Further analysis and experimentation is carried out in this paper for a chaotic dynamic model, viz. the Nonlinear Dynamic State neuron (NDS). The analysis and experimentations are performed to further understand the underlying dynamics of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Mohammad Alhawarat , Waleed Nazih , Mohammad Eldesouki

Continual learning models allow to learn and adapt to new changes and tasks over time. However, in continual and sequential learning scenarios in which the models are trained using different data with various distributions, neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 HongLin Li , Payam Barnaghi , Shirin Enshaeifar , Frieder Ganz