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48 results for forgetting prevention

Residual Continual Learning prevents forgetting in sequential tasks.

problem Preventing catastrophic forgetting in sequential learning of multiple tasks.
method ResCL reparameterizes network parameters by combining original and fine-tuned networks, keeping network size constant.
result ResCL achieves state-of-the-art performance in various continual learning scenarios.

Dynamic memory prevents forgetting in continuous learning of medical images.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in machine learning models over time due to domain shifts.
method Dynamic memory to store and replay diverse training data subsets.
result Dynamic memory mitigates forgetting without knowing when shifts occur.

Deep neural networks are known to suffer the catastrophic forgetting problem, where they tend to forget the knowledge from the previous tasks when sequentially learning new tasks. Such failure hinders the application of deep learning based vision system in continual learning settings. In this work, we present a simple …

2018-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines how training regime affects neural networks' forgetting.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks when learning multiple tasks sequentially.
method Analyzes the impact of different training regimes (learning rate, batch size, regularization) on forgetting.
result Training regimes that widen tasks' local minima help prevent catastrophic forgetting.

Continual learning is the ability to sequentially learn over time by accommodating knowledge while retaining previously learned experiences. Neural networks can learn multiple tasks when trained on them jointly, but cannot maintain performance on previously learned tasks when tasks are presented one at a time. This pro…

2018-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

ER-GNN uses experience replay to prevent GNNs from forgetting previous tasks.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in GNNs when learning multiple tasks sequentially.
method Experience Replay framework to store and replay knowledge from previous tasks.
result ER-GNN effectively mitigates catastrophic forgetting in GNNs.

New method prevents forgetting in learning new tasks.

problem Poor ability of models to solve new problems without forgetting.
method Task-agnostic hierarchical information-theoretic optimality principle with Mixture-of-Variational-Experts layer.
result Demonstrated competitive performance in continual supervised and reinforcement learning.

Sparse routing networks with co-training prevent catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks trained on a sequence of tasks.
method Sparse routing networks with co-training to minimize interference between dissimilar tasks.
result Sparse routing networks with co-training outperform densely connected networks on benchmarks.

Catastrophic forgetting is the notorious vulnerability of neural networks to the change of the data distribution while learning. This phenomenon has long been considered a major obstacle for allowing the use of learning agents in realistic continual learning settings. A large body of continual learning research assumes…

2018-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Most artificial intelligence models have limiting ability to solve new tasks faster, without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. The recently emerging paradigm of continual learning aims to solve this issue, in which the model learns various tasks in a sequential fashion. In this work, a novel approach for contin…

2018-05-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Though neural networks have achieved much progress in various applications, it is still highly challenging for them to learn from a continuous stream of tasks without forgetting. Continual learning, a new learning paradigm, aims to solve this issue. In this work, we propose a new model for continual learning, called Ba…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

We quantify forgetting in post-training models, distinguishing mass and drift.

problem Understanding and preventing forgetting in post-training generative models.
method Developed theoretical results under a two-mode mixture abstraction, formalizing mass and drift forgetting.
result Forgetting can be precisely quantified based on divergence direction, geometric overlap, and training regime.

Despite all the success that deep neural networks have seen in classifying certain datasets, the challenge of finding optimal solutions that generalize still remains. In this paper, we propose the Boundary Optimizing Network (BON), a new approach to generalization for deep neural networks when used for supervised learn…

2018-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Modern Hopfield networks help prevent forgetting in generative models after task changes.

problem How to prevent forgetting in generative models after task changes.
method Introduce intrinsic forgetting as an increase in Hopfield energy after task change, analyze memory replay effectiveness, and validate predictions in experiments.
result High-energy, outlier-like samples are more forgettable than cluster-like samples, and energy-based selection of replay samples mitigates forgetting.

Humans can learn in a continuous manner. Old rarely utilized knowledge can be overwritten by new incoming information while important, frequently used knowledge is prevented from being erased. In artificial learning systems, lifelong learning so far has focused mainly on accumulating knowledge over tasks and overcoming…

2017-11-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper analyzes convergence of continual learning with adaptive methods.

problem Preventing catastrophic forgetting in sequential learning tasks.
method Adaptive method for nonconvex continual learning (NCCL) adjusts step sizes of previous and current tasks.
result Proposed adaptive method achieves same convergence rate as SGD when catastrophic forgetting is suppressed.

Catastrophic forgetting of connectionist neural networks is caused by the global sharing of parameters among all training examples. In this study, we analyze parameter sharing under the conditional computation framework where the parameters of a neural network are conditioned on each input example. At one extreme, if e…

2019-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved rates for continual learning using SGD and last-iterate analysis.

problem Forgetting in overparameterized models after fitting multiple tasks.
method Developed novel SGD upper bounds for continual linear models and analyzed their performance.
result Established universal forgetting rates for continual learning.

A new method combines generative models and regularization to prevent forgetting in continual learning.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks when learning new tasks.
method Uses a normalizing flow as a generative model to keep past data embeddings and regularize them.
result Performs favorably compared to existing methods with constant memory overhead.

In supervised machine learning, an agent is typically trained once and then deployed. While this works well for static settings, robots often operate in changing environments and must quickly learn new things from data streams. In this paradigm, known as streaming learning, a learner is trained online, in a single pass…

2018-09-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New method prevents forgetting in LLMs by dynamically identifying task-specific subspaces.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning of LLMs.
method Adaptive Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) for constrained full fine-tuning.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results in continual learning benchmarks.

SPACE algorithm prevents forgetting in neural networks by partitioning learned knowledge.

problem Catastrophic Forgetting in neural networks when learning new tasks.
method Partitioned learning space into Core and Residual spaces, analyzing Residual for redundancy and adding necessary dimensions to Core.
result Comparable accuracy to state-of-the-art methods while overcoming catastrophic forgetting.

This paper introduces a new lifelong learning solution where a single model is trained for a sequence of tasks. The main challenge that vision systems face in this context is catastrophic forgetting: as they tend to adapt to the most recently seen task, they lose performance on the tasks that were learned previously. O…

2017-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Continual learning is the problem of learning new tasks or knowledge while protecting old knowledge and ideally generalizing from old experience to learn new tasks faster. Neural networks trained by stochastic gradient descent often degrade on old tasks when trained successively on new tasks with different data distrib…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce Continual Learning via Neural Pruning (CLNP), a new method aimed at lifelong learning in fixed capacity models based on neuronal model sparsification. In this method, subsequent tasks are trained using the inactive neurons and filters of the sparsified network and cause zero deterioration to the performanc…

2019-03-11abs ↗pdf ↗

AGS-CL selectively updates penalties based on node importance for continual learning.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
method Adaptive Group Sparsity (AGS) with proximal gradient descent.
result Significantly outperforms baselines on various continual learning benchmarks.