# Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting

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Lecture #2: Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting - Video Recording
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Lecture #2: Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting - Slides
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In this lecture we will address the following points:

* What is catastrophic forgetting?
* Understanding forgetting with one neuron
* A deep learning example: Permuted and Split MNIST
* Brainstorming session: how to solve forgetting?
* Avalanche: an end-to-end library for continual learning research