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Adaptive learning rate methods have been successfully applied in many fields, especially in training deep neural networks. Recent results have shown that adaptive methods with exponential increasing weights on squared past gradients (i.e.,…

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Deep learning systems are prone to catastrophic forgetting when learning from a sequence of tasks, as old data from previous tasks is unavailable when learning a new task. To address this, some methods propose replaying data from previous…

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Approaches to continual learning aim to successfully learn a set of related tasks that arrive in an online manner. Recently, several frameworks have been developed which enable deep learning to be deployed in this learning scenario. A key…

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Medical AI systems face catastrophic forgetting when deployed in clinical settings, where models must learn new imaging protocols while retaining prior diagnostic capabilities. This challenge is particularly acute for medical…

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Large language models store all learned knowledge in a single, fixed weight vector. Teaching a model new capabilities requires modifying those same weights, inevitably degrading previously acquired knowledge. This fundamental limitation,…

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Multimodal foundation models have achieved impressive progress across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, existing approaches often adopt fixed or task-specific fusion strategies, neglecting the intrinsic variability of modality…

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Human beings are able to master a variety of knowledge and skills with ongoing learning. By contrast, dramatic performance degradation is observed when new tasks are added to an existing neural network model. This phenomenon, termed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Xin Yao , Tianchi Huang , Chenglei Wu , Rui-Xiao Zhang , Lifeng Sun

Continual Learning addresses the challenge of learning a number of different tasks sequentially. The goal of maintaining knowledge of earlier tasks without re-accessing them starkly conflicts with standard SGD training for artificial neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Frederik Benzing

In class-incremental semantic segmentation (CISS), deep learning architectures suffer from the critical problems of catastrophic forgetting and semantic background shift. Although recent works focused on these issues, existing classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Dipam Goswami , René Schuster , Joost van de Weijer , Didier Stricker

Incremental semantic segmentation(ISS) is an emerging task where old model is updated by incrementally adding new classes. At present, methods based on convolutional neural networks are dominant in ISS. However, studies have shown that such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zekai Xu , Mingyi Zhang , Jiayue Hou , Xing Gong , Chuan Wen , Chengjie Wang , Junge Zhang

Adapting a trained Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model to new tasks results in catastrophic forgetting of old tasks, limiting the model's ability to learn continually and to be extended to new speakers, dialects, languages, etc.…

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Language model continual learning (CL) has recently attracted significant interest for its ability to adapt large language models (LLMs) to dynamic real-world scenarios without retraining. A major challenge in this domain is catastrophic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yujie Feng , Xu Chu , Yongxin Xu , Zexin Lu , Bo Liu , Philip S. Yu , Xiao-Ming Wu

Continual learning aims to learn a sequence of tasks from dynamic data distributions. Without accessing to the old training samples, knowledge transfer from the old tasks to each new task is difficult to determine, which might be either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Liyuan Wang , Mingtian Zhang , Zhongfan Jia , Qian Li , Chenglong Bao , Kaisheng Ma , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

In recent years, deep neural networks have found success in replicating human-level cognitive skills, yet they suffer from several major obstacles. One significant limitation is the inability to learn new tasks without forgetting previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Gabrielle K. Liu

Multimodal Image Fusion (MMIF) aims to integrate complementary information from different imaging modalities to overcome the limitations of individual sensors. It enhances image quality and facilitates downstream applications such as remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Mengyu Wang , Zhenyu Liu , Kun Li , Yu Wang , Yuwei Wang , Yanyan Wei , Fei Wang

Continual learning algorithms which keep the parameters of new tasks close to that of previous tasks, are popular in preventing catastrophic forgetting in sequential task learning settings. However, 1) the performance for the new continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Wei Cong , Yang Cong , Gan Sun , Yuyang Liu , Jiahua Dong

Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) aims to quickly fine-tune the model during the test phase so that it can adapt to multiple unknown downstream domain distributions without pre-acquiring downstream domain data. To this end, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiahuan Zhou , Chao Zhu , Zhenyu Cui , Zichen Liu , Xu Zou , Gang Hua

Incremental Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation (iFSS) tackles a task that requires a model to continually expand its segmentation capability on novel classes using only a few annotated examples. Typical incremental approaches encounter a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Wenbo Xu , Yanan Wu , Haoran Jiang , Yang Wang , Qiang Wu , Jian Zhang

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable accuracy in computer vision tasks. With inference time being a crucial factor, particularly in dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, knowledge distillation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Amir M. Mansourian , Rozhan Ahmadi , Shohreh Kasaei

Over the past years, semantic segmentation, as many other tasks in computer vision, benefited from the progress in deep neural networks, resulting in significantly improved performance. However, deep architectures trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Guanglei Yang , Enrico Fini , Dan Xu , Paolo Rota , Mingli Ding , Hao Tang , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci