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Using a nearly-frozen pretrained model, the continual representation learning paradigm reframes parameter updates as a similarity-matching problem to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. However, directly leveraging pretrained features for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Heming Zou , Yunliang Zang , Wutong Xu , Xiangyang Ji

In this paper, we introduce Traversal Learning (TL), a novel approach designed to address the problem of decreased quality encountered in popular distributed learning (DL) paradigms such as Federated Learning (FL), Split Learning (SL), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Erdenebileg Batbaatar , Jeonggeol Kim , Yongcheol Kim , Young Yoon

The Continuous Learning (CL) paradigm consists of continuously evolving the parameters of the Deep Neural Network (DNN) model to progressively learn to perform new tasks without reducing the performance on previous tasks, i.e., avoiding the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Eugenio Ressa , Alberto Marchisio , Maurizio Martina , Guido Masera , Muhammad Shafique

The goal of continual learning (CL) is to efficiently update a machine learning model with new data without forgetting previously-learned knowledge. Most widely-used CL methods rely on a rehearsal memory of data points to be reused while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lukas Balles , Giovanni Zappella , Cédric Archambeau

We introduce a class of concurrent learning (CL) algorithms designed to solve parameter estimation problems with convergence rates ranging from hyperexponential to prescribed-time while utilizing alternating datasets during the learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Daniel E. Ochoa , Jorge I. Poveda

Reinforcement learning has shown great promise in the training of robot behavior due to the sequential decision making characteristics. However, the required enormous amount of interactive and informative training data provides the major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Sha Luo , Hamidreza Kasaei , Lambert Schomaker

Continual Learning (CL) is a process in which there is still huge gap between human and deep learning model efficiency. Recently, many CL algorithms were designed. Most of them have many problems with learning in dynamic and complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Marcin Pietroń , Dominik Żurek , Kamil Faber , Roberto Corizzo

Reinforcement learning (RL) faces substantial challenges when applied to real-life problems, primarily stemming from the scarcity of available data due to limited interactions with the environment. This limitation is exacerbated by the fact…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Cristiano Capone , Paolo Muratore

Continual learning (CL) is the sub-field of machine learning concerned with accumulating knowledge in dynamic environments. So far, CL research has mainly focused on incremental classification tasks, where models learn to classify new…

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models that can sequentially learn new tasks without forgetting previous tasks' knowledge. Although previous works observed that pre-training can benefit CL, it remains unclear whether a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xueying Bai , Yifan Sun , Niranjan Balasubramanian

Approaches to continual learning aim to successfully learn a set of related tasks that arrive in an online manner. Recently, several frameworks have been developed which enable deep learning to be deployed in this learning scenario. A key…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-17 Tameem Adel , Han Zhao , Richard E. Turner

Continual learning (CL) refers to the ability of an algorithm to continuously and incrementally acquire new knowledge from its environment while retaining previously learned information. A model trained on one data modality often fails when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Nilay Kushawaha , Egidio Falotico

In this paper, we propose a continual learning (CL) technique that is beneficial to sequential task learners by improving their retained accuracy and reducing catastrophic forgetting. The principal target of our approach is the automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ammar Shaker , Shujian Yu , Francesco Alesiani

Multi-task learning (MTL) has shown great potential in medical image analysis, improving the generalizability of the learned features and the performance in individual tasks. However, most of the work on MTL focuses on either architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Fuping Wu , Le Zhang , Yang Sun , Yuanhan Mo , Thomas Nichols , Bartlomiej W. Papiez

Transformers excel at in-context learning (ICL) -- learning from demonstrations without parameter updates -- but how they do so remains a mystery. Recent work suggests that Transformers may internally run Gradient Descent (GD), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Deqing Fu , Tian-Qi Chen , Robin Jia , Vatsal Sharan

The goal of Continual Learning (CL) is to continuously learn from new data streams and accomplish the corresponding tasks. Previously studied CL assumes that data are given in sequence nose-to-tail for different tasks, thus indeed belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Fan Lyu , Wei Feng , Yuepan Li , Qing Sun , Fanhua Shang , Liang Wan , Liang Wang

Neglecting complex aerodynamic effects hinders high-speed yet high-precision multirotor autonomy. In this paper, we present a computationally efficient learning-based model predictive controller that simultaneously optimizes a trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Babak Akbari , Melissa Greeff

Continuous formulations of trajectory planning problems have two main benefits. First, constraints are guaranteed to be satisfied at all times. Secondly, dynamic obstacles can be naturally considered with time. This paper introduces a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Changhao Wang , Ting Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

State-of-the-art federated learning methods can perform far worse than their centralized counterparts when clients have dissimilar data distributions. For neural networks, even when centralized SGD easily finds a solution that is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yaodong Yu , Alexander Wei , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Yi Ma , Michael I. Jordan

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Cheng Ji , Jianxin Li , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Phillip S. Yu