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Catastrophic forgetting is a major problem in continual learning, and lots of approaches arise to reduce it. However, most of them are evaluated through task accuracy, which ignores the internal model structure. Recent research suggests…

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Modern computer systems store vast amounts of personal data, enabling advances in AI and ML but risking user privacy and trust. For privacy reasons, it is sometimes desired for an ML model to forget part of the data it was trained on. In…

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Matching animal-like flexibility in recognition and the ability to quickly incorporate new information remains difficult. Limits are yet to be adequately addressed in neural models and recognition algorithms. This work proposes a…

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Recursive processing in sentence comprehension is considered a hallmark of human linguistic abilities. However, its underlying neural mechanisms remain largely unknown. We studied whether a modern artificial neural network trained with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yair Lakretz , Dieuwke Hupkes , Alessandra Vergallito , Marco Marelli , Marco Baroni , Stanislas Dehaene

We model human and animal learning by computing with high-dimensional vectors (H = 10,000 for example). The architecture resembles traditional (von Neumann) computing with numbers, but the instructions refer to vectors and operate on them…

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It takes several years for the developing brain of a baby to fully master word repetition-the task of hearing a word and repeating it aloud. Repeating a new word, such as from a new language, can be a challenging task also for adults.…

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Continual learning (CL) for large language models (LLMs) aims to enable sequential knowledge acquisition without catastrophic forgetting. Memory replay methods are widely used for their practicality and effectiveness, but most rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yujie Feng , Hao Wang , Jian Li , Xu Chu , Zhaolu Kang , Yiran Liu , Yasha Wang , Philip S. Yu , Xiao-Ming Wu

Continual learning -- the ability to acquire knowledge incrementally without forgetting previous skills -- is fundamental to natural intelligence. While the human brain excels at this, artificial neural networks struggle with "catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Aoi Otani

Remembering and forgetting mechanisms are two sides of the same coin in a human learning-memory system. Inspired by human brain memory mechanisms, modern machine learning systems have been working to endow machine with lifelong learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Jian Peng , Xian Sun , Min Deng , Chao Tao , Bo Tang , Wenbo Li , Guohua Wu , QingZhu , Yu Liu , Tao Lin , Haifeng Li

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

In this work, we study the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting in the graph representation learning scenario. The primary objective of the analysis is to understand whether classical continual learning techniques for flat and sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Antonio Carta , Andrea Cossu , Federico Errica , Davide Bacciu

In recent years, deep neural networks have significantly impacted the seismic interpretation process. Due to the simple implementation and low interpretation costs, deep neural networks are an attractive component for the common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ryan Benkert , Oluwaseun Joseph Aribido , Ghassan AlRegib

A primary focus area in continual learning research is alleviating the "catastrophic forgetting" problem in neural networks by designing new algorithms that are more robust to the distribution shifts. While the recent progress in continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Seyed Iman Mirzadeh , Arslan Chaudhry , Dong Yin , Huiyi Hu , Razvan Pascanu , Dilan Gorur , Mehrdad Farajtabar

In the present era of deep learning, continual learning research is mainly focused on mitigating forgetting when training a neural network with stochastic gradient descent on a non-stationary stream of data. On the other hand, in the more…

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Catastrophic forgetting describes the fact that machine learning models will likely forget the knowledge of previously learned tasks after the learning process of a new one. It is a vital problem in the continual learning scenario and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Wenjie Jiang , Zhide Lu , Dong-Ling Deng

We introduce a new training paradigm that enforces interval constraints on neural network parameter space to control forgetting. Contemporary Continual Learning (CL) methods focus on training neural networks efficiently from a stream of…

Human pose estimation using deep neural networks aims to map input images with large variations into multiple body keypoints which must satisfy a set of geometric constraints and inter-dependency imposed by the human body model. This is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Guanghan Ning , Zhi Zhang , Zhihai He

Unlike humans, who are capable of continual learning over their lifetimes, artificial neural networks have long been known to suffer from a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting, whereby new learning can lead to abrupt erasure of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Christos Kaplanis , Murray Shanahan , Claudia Clopath

Making neural networks remember over the long term has been a longstanding issue. Although several external memory techniques have been introduced, most focus on retaining recent information in the short term. Regardless of its importance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Sangjun Park , JinYeong Bak

Hebbian synaptic plasticity inevitably leads to interference and forgetting when different, overlapping memory patterns are sequentially stored in the same network. Recent work on artificial neural networks shows that an…

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