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The ability to learn more and more concepts over time from incrementally arriving data is essential for the development of a life-long learning system. However, deep neural networks often suffer from forgetting previously learned concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Huaiyu Li , Weiming Dong , Bao-Gang Hu

Lifelong machine learning or continual learning models attempt to learn incrementally by accumulating knowledge across a sequence of tasks. Therefore, these models learn better and faster. They are used in various intelligent systems that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Khouloud Saadi , Muhammad Taimoor Khan

Continual lifelong learning is an machine learning framework inspired by human learning, where learners are trained to continuously acquire new knowledge in a sequential manner. However, the non-stationary nature of streaming training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xingyu Li , Bo Tang , Haifeng Li

Deep neural networks are used in many state-of-the-art systems for machine perception. Once a network is trained to do a specific task, e.g., bird classification, it cannot easily be trained to do new tasks, e.g., incrementally learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Ronald Kemker , Marc McClure , Angelina Abitino , Tyler Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Solving Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) problems with neural networks is a key challenge in Neural-Symbolic Ar- tificial Intelligence (AI). While most research has focused on designing novel network architectures for individual prob-…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bowen He , Xiaoan Xu , Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Vahid Tarokh , Juncheng Dong

A continual learning agent should be able to build on top of existing knowledge to learn on new data quickly while minimizing forgetting. Current intelligent systems based on neural network function approximators arguably do the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Khurram Javed , Martha White

Memory-augmented LLM agents offer an appealing shortcut to continual learning: rather than updating model parameters, they accumulate experience in external memory, seemingly sidestepping the stability-plasticity dilemma of parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Qisheng Hu , Quanyu Long , Wenya Wang

Continual learning is a key feature of biological neural systems, but artificial neural networks often suffer from catastrophic forgetting. Instead of backpropagation, biologically plausible learning algorithms may enable stable continual…

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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

This book chapter delves into the dynamics of continual learning, which is the process of incrementally learning from a non-stationary stream of data. Although continual learning is a natural skill for the human brain, it is very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Gido M. van de Ven , Nicholas Soures , Dhireesha Kudithipudi

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents capable of learning multiple tasks sequentially with neural networks. One of its main challenging, catastrophic forgetting, is caused by the neural networks non-optimal ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Recently, machine learning (ML) has become a popular approach to support self-adaptation. ML has been used to deal with several problems in self-adaptation, such as maintaining an up-to-date runtime model under uncertainty and scalable…

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Artificial intelligence underpins most smart city services, yet deep neural network (DNN) that forecasts vehicle motion still struggle with catastrophic forgetting, the loss of earlier knowledge when models are updated. Conventional fixes…

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While deeper convolutional networks are needed to achieve maximum accuracy in visual perception tasks, for many inputs shallower networks are sufficient. We exploit this observation by learning to skip convolutional layers on a per-input…

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Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

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,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Charles X. Ling , Tanner Bohn

A major obstacle to developing artificial intelligence applications capable of true lifelong learning is that artificial neural networks quickly or catastrophically forget previously learned tasks when trained on a new one. Numerous methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Gido M. van de Ven , Andreas S. Tolias

Inspired by key neuroscience principles, deep learning has driven exponential breakthroughs in developing functional models of perception and other cognitive processes. A key to this success has been the implementation of crucial features…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Guillaume Etter

In recent years, neural networks have demonstrated an outstanding ability to achieve complex learning tasks across various domains. However, they suffer from the "catastrophic forgetting" problem when they face a sequence of learning tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Seyed-Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Hassan Ghasemzadeh