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Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of particular data or class from trained models to meet privacy, legal, or ethical requirements. Existing unlearning methods tend to forget shallowly: phenomenon of an unlearned model pretend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jaeheun Jung , Bosung Jung , Suhyun Bae , Donghun Lee

In Continual learning (CL) balancing effective adaptation while combating catastrophic forgetting is a central challenge. Many of the recent best-performing methods utilize various forms of prior task data, e.g. a replay buffer, to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Nader Asadi , MohammadReza Davari , Sudhir Mudur , Rahaf Aljundi , Eugene Belilovsky

A catastrophic forgetting problem makes deep neural networks forget the previously learned information, when learning data collected in new environments, such as by different sensors or in different light conditions. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Heechul Jung , Jeongwoo Ju , Minju Jung , Junmo Kim

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize new classes incrementally while maintaining the discriminability of old classes. Most existing CIL methods are exemplar-based, i.e., storing a part of old data for retraining. Without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Fei Zhu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Zhen Cheng , Cheng-Lin Liu

In the scenario of class-incremental learning (CIL), deep neural networks have to adapt their model parameters to non-stationary data distributions, e.g., the emergence of new classes over time. However, CIL models are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Depeng Li , Zhigang Zeng

Attempts to train a comprehensive artificial intelligence capable of solving multiple tasks have been impeded by a chronic problem called catastrophic forgetting. Although simply replaying all previous data alleviates the problem, it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Hanul Shin , Jung Kwon Lee , Jaehong Kim , Jiwon Kim

Recently, object detection models have witnessed notable performance improvements, particularly with transformer-based models. However, new objects frequently appear in the real world, requiring detection models to continually learn without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Duc Thanh Pham , Hong Dang Nguyen , Nhat Minh Nguyen Quoc , Linh Ngo Van , Sang Dinh Viet , Duc Anh Nguyen

In a real-world setting, object instances from new classes can be continuously encountered by object detectors. When existing object detectors are applied to such scenarios, their performance on old classes deteriorates significantly. A few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 K J Joseph , Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Lifelong learning with deep neural networks is well-known to suffer from catastrophic forgetting: the performance on previous tasks drastically degrades when learning a new task. To alleviate this effect, we propose to leverage a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Kibok Lee , Kimin Lee , Jinwoo Shin , Honglak Lee

Catastrophic forgetting poses a substantial challenge for managing intelligent agents controlled by a large model, causing performance degradation when these agents face new tasks. In our work, we propose a novel solution - the Progressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhiyuan Wang , Xiaoyang Qu , Jing Xiao , Bokui Chen , Jianzong Wang

A fundamental and challenging problem in deep learning is catastrophic forgetting, i.e. the tendency of neural networks to fail to preserve the knowledge acquired from old tasks when learning new tasks. This problem has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Guanglei Yang , Enrico Fini , Dan Xu , Paolo Rota , Mingli Ding , Moin Nabi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci

Camouflaged object detection (COD) primarily focuses on learning subtle yet discriminative representations from complex scenes. Existing methods predominantly follow the parametric feedforward architecture based on static visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Chenxi Zhang , Jiayun Wu , Qing Zhang , Yazhe Zhai , Youwei Pang

Catastrophic forgetting remains a central challenge in continual learning (CL), yet lacks a unified information-theoretic explanation for why some architectures forget catastrophically while others do not. We introduce \emph{Context Channel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ran Cheng

Existing research has shown that large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable performance in language understanding and generation. However, when LLMs are continuously fine-tuned on complex and diverse domain-specific downstream tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Weijieying Ren , Xinlong Li , Lei Wang , Tianxiang Zhao , Wei Qin

Unified Multimodal Generative Models (UMGMs) unify visual understanding and image generation within a single autoregressive framework. However, their ability to continually learn new tasks is severely hindered by catastrophic forgetting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xiwen Wei , Mustafa Munir , Radu Marculescu

Previous research on code intelligence usually trains a deep learning model on a fixed dataset in an offline manner. However, in real-world scenarios, new code repositories emerge incessantly, and the carried new knowledge is beneficial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Shuzheng Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Cuiyun Gao , Chaozheng Wang

The deployment of quantized neural networks on edge devices, combined with privacy regulations like GDPR, creates an urgent need for machine unlearning in quantized models. However, existing methods face critical challenges: they induce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Tian Zhang , Yujia Tong , Junhao Dong , Ke Xu , Yuze Wang , Jingling Yuan

Neural networks are known to suffer from catastrophic forgetting when trained on sequential datasets. While there have been numerous attempts to solve this problem in large-scale supervised classification, little has been done to overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Pauching Yap , Hippolyt Ritter , David Barber

Humans can incrementally learn to do new visual detection tasks, which is a huge challenge for today's computer vision systems. Incrementally trained deep learning models lack backwards transfer to previously seen classes and suffer from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Manoj Acharya , Tyler L. Hayes , Christopher Kanan

Incremental learning aims to enable machine learning models to continuously acquire new knowledge given new classes, while maintaining the knowledge already learned for old classes. Saving a subset of training samples of previously seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jian Jiang , Edoardo Cetin , Oya Celiktutan