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Vision transformer (ViT) expands the success of transformer models from sequential data to images. The model decomposes an image into many smaller patches and arranges them into a sequence. Multi-head self-attentions are then applied to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yiran Li , Junpeng Wang , Xin Dai , Liang Wang , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Yan Zheng , Wei Zhang , Kwan-Liu Ma

Machine Learning models in real-world applications must continuously learn new tasks to adapt to shifts in the data-generating distribution. Yet, for Continual Learning (CL), models often struggle to balance learning new tasks (plasticity)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Luckeciano C. Melo , Alessandro Abate , Yarin Gal

Online continual learning for image classification is crucial for models to adapt to new data while retaining knowledge of previously learned tasks. This capability is essential to address real-world challenges involving dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Adjovi Sim , Zhengkui Wang , Aik Beng Ng , Shalini De Mello , Simon See , Wonmin Byeon

Existing literature in Continual Learning (CL) has focused on overcoming catastrophic forgetting, the inability of the learner to recall how to perform tasks observed in the past. There are however other desirable properties of a CL system,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tom Veniat , Ludovic Denoyer , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently gained significant attention in solving computer vision (CV) problems due to its capability of extracting informative features and modeling long-range dependencies through the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

Continual Learning (CL) seeks to enable neural networks to incrementally acquire new knowledge (plasticity) while retaining existing knowledge (stability). Although pre-trained models (PTMs) have provided a strong foundation for CL,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Aojun Lu , Tao Feng , Hangjie Yuan , Chunhui Ding , Yanan Sun

Continual learning (CL) is a new online learning technique over sequentially generated streaming data from different tasks, aiming to maintain a small forgetting loss on previously-learned tasks. Existing work focuses on reducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Shugang Hao , Lingjie Duan

One of the objectives of continual learning is to prevent catastrophic forgetting in learning multiple tasks sequentially, and the existing solutions have been driven by the conceptualization of the plasticity-stability dilemma. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Seungyub Han , Yeongmo Kim , Taehyun Cho , Jungwoo Lee

Integrating new class information without losing previously acquired knowledge remains a central challenge in artificial intelligence, often referred to as catastrophic forgetting. Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kyle Stein , Andrew Arash Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

Vision Transformers (ViT) serve as powerful vision models. Unlike convolutional neural networks, which dominated vision research in previous years, vision transformers enjoy the ability to capture long-range dependencies in the data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Moab Arar , Ariel Shamir , Amit H. Bermano

Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) require continual learning to adapt to non-stationary real-world data. However, existing benchmarks fall short of evaluating modern foundation models: many still rely on models without large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Haiyang Guo , Yichen Shi , Fei Zhu , Wenzhuo Liu , Hongbo Zhao , Fanhu Zeng , Shijie Ma , Da-Han Wang , Xu-Yao Zhang

Without relevant human priors, neural networks may learn uninterpretable features. We propose Dynamics of Attention for Focus Transition (DAFT) as a human prior for machine reasoning. DAFT is a novel method that regularizes attention-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-24 Wonjae Kim , Yoonho Lee

The challenging deployment of compute- and memory-intensive methods from Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based Continual Learning (CL) underscores the critical need for a paradigm shift towards more efficient approaches. Neuromorphic Continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mishal Fatima Minhas , Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Falah Awwad , Osman Hasan , Muhammad Shafique

Lifelong deep learning (LDL) trains neural networks to learn sequentially across tasks while preserving prior knowledge. We propose Task-Aware Multi-Expert (TAME), a continual learning algorithm that leverages task similarity to guide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jianyu Wang , Jacob Nean-Hua Sheikh , Cat P. Le , Hoda Bidkhori

The deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using attention mechanism have achieved great success for dynamic scene deblurring. In most of these networks, only the features refined by the attention maps can be passed to the next layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xia Hua , Mingxin Li , Junxiong Fei , Yu Shi , JianGuo Liu , Hanyu Hong

The ability to sequentially learn multiple tasks without forgetting is a key skill of biological brains, whereas it represents a major challenge to the field of deep learning. To avoid catastrophic forgetting, various continual learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Francesco Lässig , Pau Vilimelis Aceituno , Martino Sorbaro , Benjamin F. Grewe

The self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the advancement of vision Transformers. However, its quadratic complexity imposes a heavy computational burden in high-resolution scenarios, restricting the practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchen Han , Tianyu Li , Ziyi Wang , Gao Huang

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved impressive performance for various visual recognition scenarios. CNNs trained on large labeled datasets can not only obtain significant performance on most challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xiangyang Li , Luis Herranz , Shuqiang Jiang

Existing prompt-tuning methods have demonstrated impressive performances in continual learning (CL), by selecting and updating relevant prompts in the vision-transformer models. On the contrary, this paper aims to learn each task by tuning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yue Lu , Shizhou Zhang , De Cheng , Yinghui Xing , Nannan Wang , Peng Wang , Yanning Zhang

The performance of the Vision-and-Language Navigation~(VLN) tasks has witnessed rapid progress recently thanks to the use of large pre-trained vision-and-language models. However, full fine-tuning the pre-trained model for every downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yanyuan Qiao , Zheng Yu , Qi Wu