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In this paper, we propose a general framework in continual learning for generative models: Feature-oriented Continual Learning (FoCL). Unlike previous works that aim to solve the catastrophic forgetting problem by introducing regularization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Qicheng Lao , Mehrzad Mortazavi , Marzieh Tahaei , Francis Dutil , Thomas Fevens , Mohammad Havaei

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. Current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

The holy grail of machine learning is to enable Continual Federated Learning (CFL) to enhance the efficiency, privacy, and scalability of AI systems while learning from streaming data. The primary challenge of a CFL system is to overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Satish Kumar Keshri , Nazreen Shah , Ranjitha Prasad

Federated learning (FL) is a rapidly growing privacy-preserving collaborative machine learning paradigm. In practical FL applications, local data from each data silo reflect local usage patterns. Therefore, there exists heterogeneity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shenglai Zeng , Zonghang Li , Hongfang Yu , Yihong He , Zenglin Xu , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu

Continual learning (CL) is a setting in which an agent has to learn from an incoming stream of data during its entire lifetime. Although major advances have been made in the field, one recurring problem which remains unsolved is that of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Thang Doan , Mehdi Bennani , Bogdan Mazoure , Guillaume Rabusseau , Pierre Alquier

Catastrophic forgetting (CF) poses a persistent challenge in continual learning (CL), especially within federated learning (FL) environments characterized by non-i.i.d. time series data. While existing research has largely focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Khaled Hallak , Oudom Kem

Federated continual learning (FCL) tackles scenarios of learning from continuously emerging task data across distributed clients, where the key challenge lies in addressing both temporal forgetting over time and spatial forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kunlun Xu , Yibo Feng , Jiangmeng Li , Yongsheng Qi , Jiahuan Zhou

In Federated Learning (FL), the data in each client is typically assumed fixed or static. However, data often comes in an incremental manner in real-world applications, where the data domain may increase dynamically. In this work, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yichen Li , Qunwei Li , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li , Wenliang Zhong , Guannan Zhang

Federated continual learning (FCL) allows distributed autonomous fleets to adapt collaboratively to evolving terrain types across extended mission lifecycles. However, current approaches face several key challenges: 1) they use uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Beining Wu , Jun Huang

Federated continual learning (FCL) learns incremental tasks over time from confidential datasets distributed across clients. This paper focuses on rehearsal-free FCL, which has severe forgetting issues when learning new tasks due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Gaurav Bagwe , Xiaoyong Yuan , Miao Pan , Lan Zhang

As Web technology continues to develop, it has become increasingly common to use data stored on different clients. At the same time, federated learning has received widespread attention due to its ability to protect data privacy when let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Xin Luo , Fang-Yi Liang , Jiale Liu , Yu-Wei Zhan , Zhen-Duo Chen , Xin-Shun Xu

Federated Continual Learning (FCL) aims to enable sequentially privacy-preserving model training on streams of incoming data that vary in edge devices by preserving previous knowledge while adapting to new data. Current FCL literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yichen Li , Yuying Wang , Jiahua Dong , Haozhao Wang , Yining Qi , Rui Zhang , Ruixuan Li

Federated Continual Learning (FCL) leverages inter-client collaboration to balance new knowledge acquisition and prior knowledge retention in non-stationary data. However, existing batch-based FCL methods lack adaptability to streaming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Sixing Tan , Xianmin Liu

Foundation Models (FMs) have become the hallmark of modern AI, however, these models are trained on massive data, leading to financially expensive training. Updating FMs as new data becomes available is important, however, can lead to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 James Seale Smith , Lazar Valkov , Shaunak Halbe , Vyshnavi Gutta , Rogerio Feris , Zsolt Kira , Leonid Karlinsky

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for decentralized training of graph neural networks while preserving data privacy. However, existing FGL methods are predominantly designed for static graphs and rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuxuan Liu , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Zhiming He , Zhaofeng Shi , Chongyang Xu , Peichao Wang , Boyuan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) has attracted growing attention via data-private collaborative training on decentralized clients. However, most existing methods unrealistically assume object classes of the overall framework are fixed over time. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jiahua Dong , Lixu Wang , Zhen Fang , Gan Sun , Shichao Xu , Xiao Wang , Qi Zhu

Class-incremental learning (CIL) has achieved remarkable successes in learning new classes consecutively while overcoming catastrophic forgetting on old categories. However, most existing CIL methods unreasonably assume that all old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Jiahua Dong , Wenqi Liang , Yang Cong , Gan Sun

Federated Continual Learning (FCL) has emerged as a promising paradigm that combines Federated Learning (FL) and Continual Learning (CL). To achieve good model accuracy, FCL needs to tackle catastrophic forgetting due to concept drift over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xiaopeng Jiang , Cristian Borcea

A common challenge in continual learning (CL) is catastrophic forgetting, where the performance on old tasks drops after new, additional tasks are learned. In this paper, we propose a novel framework called ReCL to slow down forgetting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Pascal Janetzky , Tobias Schlagenhauf , Stefan Feuerriegel

Continual learning (CL) is a fundamental topic in machine learning, where the goal is to train a model with continuously incoming data and tasks. Due to the memory limit, we cannot store all the historical data, and therefore confront the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weichen Lin , Jiaxiang Chen , Ruomin Huang , Hu Ding