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Contrastive Learning (CL) has been proved to be a powerful self-supervised approach for a wide range of domains, including computer vision and graph representation learning. However, the incremental learning issue of CL has rarely been…

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Artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when they are sequentially trained on multiple tasks. To overcome this problem, we present a novel approach based on task-conditioned hypernetworks, i.e., networks that generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Johannes von Oswald , Christian Henning , Benjamin F. Grewe , João Sacramento

Continual Learning (CL) aims to enable models to continuously acquire new knowledge from a sequence of tasks with avoiding the forgetting of learned information. However, existing CL methods only rely on the parameters of the most recent…

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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…

Preventing catastrophic forgetting while continually learning new tasks is an essential problem in lifelong learning. Structural regularization (SR) refers to a family of algorithms that mitigate catastrophic forgetting by penalizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Haoran Li , Aditya Krishnan , Jingfeng Wu , Soheil Kolouri , Praveen K. Pilly , Vladimir Braverman

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

Traditional continual learning methods prioritize knowledge retention and focus primarily on mitigating catastrophic forgetting, implicitly assuming that the data distribution of previously learned tasks remains static. This overlooks the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Alif Ashrafee , Jedrzej Kozal , Michal Wozniak , Bartosz Krawczyk

Artificial neural networks encounter a notable challenge known as continual learning, which involves acquiring knowledge of multiple tasks over an extended period. This challenge arises due to the tendency of previously learned weights to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yonatan Sverdlov , Shimon Ullman

Continual learning (CL) remains one of the long-standing challenges for deep neural networks due to catastrophic forgetting of previously acquired knowledge. Although rehearsal-based approaches have been fairly successful in mitigating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Prashant Bhat , Bharath Renjith , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Despite recent advances, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are still far from perfect. Typical errors include acronyms, named entities, and domain-specific special words for which little or no labeled data is available. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Christian Huber , Alexander Waibel

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…

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Adapting Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models to new domains leads to Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) of previously learned information. This paper addresses CF in the challenging context of Online Continual Learning (OCL), with tasks…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Steven Vander Eeckt , Hugo Van hamme

Recently, data-driven based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems have achieved state-of-the-art results. And transfer learning is often used when those existing systems are adapted to the target domain, e.g., fine-tuning, retraining.…

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Continual learning focuses on learning non-stationary data distribution without forgetting previous knowledge. Rehearsal-based approaches are commonly used to combat catastrophic forgetting. However, these approaches suffer from a problem…

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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) traditionally assumes known domains, but adding data from a new domain raises concerns about computational inefficiencies linked to retraining models on both existing and new domains. Fine-tuning solely on…

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Despite rapid advances in speech recognition, current models remain brittle to superficial perturbations to their inputs. Small amounts of noise can destroy the performance of an otherwise state-of-the-art model. To harden models against…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Davis Liang , Zhiheng Huang , Zachary C. Lipton

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

Modern neural network based speech recognition models are required to continually absorb new data without re-training the whole system, especially in downstream applications using foundation models, having no access to the original training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Enes Yavuz Ugan , Ngoc-Quan Pham , Alexander Waibel

Despite the success of sequence-to-sequence approaches in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, the models still suffer from several problems, mainly due to the mismatch between the training and inference conditions. In the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura