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Continual learning addresses the problem of continuously acquiring and transferring knowledge without catastrophic forgetting of old concepts. While humans achieve continual learning via diverse neurocognitive mechanisms, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xiaoqian Liu , Junge Zhang , Mingyi Zhang , Peipei Yang

This study presents a novel approach to Generative Class Incremental Learning (GCIL) by introducing the forgetting mechanism, aimed at dynamically managing class information for better adaptation to streaming data. GCIL is one of the hot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Taro Togo , Ren Togo , Keisuke Maeda , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

In class-incremental learning, the model is expected to learn new classes continually while maintaining knowledge on previous classes. The challenge here lies in preserving the model's ability to effectively represent prior classes in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Arjun Ashok , K J Joseph , Vineeth Balasubramanian

Continual learning empowers models to learn from a continuous stream of data while preserving previously acquired knowledge, effectively addressing the challenge of catastrophic forgetting. In this study, we propose a new approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Mohamed Abbas Hedjazi , Oussama Hadjerci , Adel Hafiane

Continual learning (CL) -- the ability to continuously learn, building on previously acquired knowledge -- is a natural requirement for long-lived autonomous reinforcement learning (RL) agents. While building such agents, one needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Maciej Wołczyk , Michał Zając , Razvan Pascanu , Łukasz Kuciński , Piotr Miłoś

Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks is a significant problem for continual learning. A majority of the current methods replay previous data during training, which violates the constraints of an ideal continual learning system.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Prakhar Kaushik , Alex Gain , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille

In medical imaging, technical progress or changes in diagnostic procedures lead to a continuous change in image appearance. Scanner manufacturer, reconstruction kernel, dose, other protocol specific settings or administering of contrast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Johannes Hofmanninger , Matthias Perkonigg , James A. Brink , Oleg Pianykh , Christian Herold , Georg Langs

A central capability of intelligent systems is the ability to continuously build upon previous experiences to speed up and enhance learning of new tasks. Two distinct research paradigms have studied this question. Meta-learning views this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Chelsea Finn , Aravind Rajeswaran , Sham Kakade , Sergey Levine

Deep neural networks have revolutionized numerous research fields and applications. Despite their widespread success, a fundamental limitation known as catastrophic forgetting remains, where models fail to retain their ability to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Karolina Bogacka , Maximilian Höfler , Maria Ganzha , Wojciech Samek , Katarzyna Wasielewska-Michniewska

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Tameem Adel , Han Zhao , Richard E. Turner

Artificial neural networks, celebrated for their human-like cognitive learning abilities, often encounter the well-known catastrophic forgetting (CF) problem, where the neural networks lose the proficiency in previously acquired knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Weiwei Weng , Mahardhika Pratama , Jie Zhang , Chen Chen , Edward Yapp Kien Yee , Ramasamy Savitha

Deep learning models are prone to forgetting information learned in the past when trained on new data. This problem becomes even more pronounced in the context of federated learning (FL), where data is decentralized and subject to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sara Babakniya , Zalan Fabian , Chaoyang He , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Salman Avestimehr

Most standard learning approaches lead to fragile models which are prone to drift when sequentially trained on samples of a different nature - the well-known "catastrophic forgetting" issue. In particular, when a model consecutively learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Riccardo Volpi , Diane Larlus , Grégory Rogez

This work introduces a novel methodology for assessing catastrophic forgetting (CF) in continual learning. We propose a new conformal prediction (CP)-based metric, termed the Conformal Prediction Confidence Factor (CPCF), to quantify and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ioannis Pitsiorlas , Nour Jamoussi , Marios Kountouris

Despite their success for object detection, convolutional neural networks are ill-equipped for incremental learning, i.e., adapting the original model trained on a set of classes to additionally detect objects of new classes, in the absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-24 Konstantin Shmelkov , Cordelia Schmid , Karteek Alahari

Building learning agents that can progressively learn and accumulate knowledge is the core goal of the continual learning (CL) research field. Unfortunately, training a model on new data usually compromises the performance on past data. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Timothée Lesort , Oleksiy Ostapenko , Diganta Misra , Md Rifat Arefin , Pau Rodríguez , Laurent Charlin , Irina Rish

The two main challenges faced by continual learning approaches 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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

The ability of a model to learn continually can be empirically assessed in different continual learning scenarios. Each scenario defines the constraints and the opportunities of the learning environment. Here, we challenge the current trend…

Continual Learning entails progressively acquiring knowledge from new data while retaining previously acquired knowledge, thereby mitigating ``Catastrophic Forgetting'' in neural networks. Our work presents a novel uncertainty-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Sriram Mandalika , Harsha Vardhan , Athira Nambiar

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