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The ability to learn more and more concepts over time from incrementally arriving data is essential for the development of a life-long learning system. However, deep neural networks often suffer from forgetting previously learned concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Huaiyu Li , Weiming Dong , Bao-Gang Hu

The creation of large-scale open domain reading comprehension data sets in recent years has enabled the development of end-to-end neural comprehension models with promising results. To use these models for domains with limited training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Y. Xu , X. Zhong , A. J. J. Yepes , J. H. Lau

Continual learning (CL) aims to enable learning systems to acquire new knowledge constantly without forgetting previously learned information. CL faces the challenge of mitigating catastrophic forgetting while maintaining interpretability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Lu Yu , Haoyu Han , Zhe Tao , Hantao Yao , Changsheng Xu

Crowd counting has important applications in public safety and pandemic control. A robust and practical crowd counting system has to be capable of continuously learning with the new incoming domain data in real-world scenarios instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jiaqi Gao , Jingqi Li , Hongming Shan , Yanyun Qu , James Z. Wang , Fei-Yue Wang , Junping Zhang

Catastrophic forgetting (CF) is a phenomenon that occurs in machine learning when a model forgets previously learned information while acquiring new knowledge for achieving a satisfactory performance in downstream tasks. As large language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yun Luo , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Yafu Li , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

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

Catastrophic forgetting has been a significant problem hindering the deployment of deep learning algorithms in the continual learning setting. Numerous methods have been proposed to address the catastrophic forgetting problem where an agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Marcus de Carvalho , Mahardhika Pratama , Jie Zhang , Yajuan San

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

Continual learning on sequential data is critical for many machine learning (ML) deployments. Unfortunately, LSTM networks, which are commonly used to learn on sequential data, suffer from catastrophic forgetting and are limited in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Ketaki Joshi , Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi , Andre Wibisono , Abhishek Bhattacharjee

We tackle the problem of Federated Learning in the non i.i.d. case, in which local models drift apart, inhibiting learning. Building on an analogy with Lifelong Learning, we adapt a solution for catastrophic forgetting to Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Neta Shoham , Tomer Avidor , Aviv Keren , Nadav Israel , Daniel Benditkis , Liron Mor-Yosef , Itai Zeitak

Modern big-data systems generate massive, heterogeneous, and geographically dispersed streams that are large-scale and privacy-sensitive, making centralization challenging. While federated learning (FL) provides a privacy-enhancing training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Obaidullah Zaland , Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan , Monowar Bhuyan

This paper focuses on an under-explored yet important problem: Federated Class-Continual Learning (FCCL), where new classes are dynamically added in federated learning. Existing FCCL works suffer from various limitations, such as requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jie Zhang , Chen Chen , Weiming Zhuang , Lingjuan Lv

Diffusion customization methods have achieved impressive results with only a minimal number of user-provided images. However, existing approaches customize concepts collectively, whereas real-world applications often require sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zirun Guo , Tao Jin

Scarcity of data and incremental learning of new tasks pose two major bottlenecks for many modern computer vision algorithms. The phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting, i.e., the model's inability to classify previously learned data after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sanchar Palit , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Federated Continual Learning (FCL) has recently emerged as a crucial research area, as data from distributed clients typically arrives as a stream, requiring sequential learning. This paper explores a more practical and challenging FCL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Le-Tuan Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham

Continual learning (CL) learns a sequence of tasks incrementally with the goal of achieving two main objectives: overcoming catastrophic forgetting (CF) and encouraging knowledge transfer (KT) across tasks. However, most existing techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu , Nianzu Ma , Hu Xu , Lei Shu

Few-shot learning is a challenging problem where the goal is to achieve generalization from only few examples. Model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) tackles the problem by formulating prior knowledge as a common initialization across tasks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Sungyong Baik , Seokil Hong , Kyoung Mu Lee

In continual learning, there is a serious problem of catastrophic forgetting, in which previous knowledge is forgotten when a model learns new tasks. Various methods have been proposed to solve this problem. Replay methods which replay data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Kotaro Nagata , Hiromu Ono , Kazuhiro Hotta

To address the problem of catastrophic forgetting due to the invisibility of old categories in sequential input, existing work based on relatively simple categorization tasks has made some progress. In contrast, video captioning is a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Huiyu Xiong , Lanxiao Wang , Heqian Qiu , Taijin Zhao , Benliu Qiu , Hongliang Li

While Large Language Models (LLMs) acquire vast knowledge during pre-training, they often lack domain-specific, new, or niche information. Continual pre-training (CPT) attempts to address this gap but suffers from catastrophic forgetting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Oded Ovadia , Meni Brief , Rachel Lemberg , Eitam Sheetrit