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Classic readings on catastrophic forgetting

Catastrophic Forgetting; Catastrophic Interference; Stability; Plasticity; Rehearsal. by and Anthony Robins. Connection Science, 123--146, 1995.

Using Semi-Distributed Representations to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting in Connectionist Networks by and Robert French. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Cognitive Science Society Conference, 173--178, 1991. [sparsity]

Check out additional material for popular reviews and surveys on continual learning.

Lifelong Machine Learning, Second Edition. by Zhiyuan Chen and Bing Liu. Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 2018.

Classic references on Catastrophic Forgetting provided above.

Does Continual Learning = Catastrophic Forgetting?, by A. Thai, S. Stojanov, I. Rehg, and J. M. Rehg, arXiv, 2021.

An Empirical Study of Example Forgetting during Deep Neural Network Learning, by M. Toneva, A. Sordoni, R. T. des Combes, A. Trischler, Y. Bengio, and G. J. Gordon, ICLR, 2019.

Compete to Compute, by R. K. Srivastava, J. Masci, S. Kazerounian, F. Gomez, and J. Schmidhuber, NIPS, 2013 (Permuted MNIST task).

CL scenarios

Three scenarios for continual learning, by G. M. van de Ven and A. S. Tolias, Continual Learning workshop at NeurIPS, 2018. task/domain/class incremental learning

Continuous Learning in Single-Incremental-Task Scenarios, by D. Maltoni and V. Lomonaco, Neural Networks, vol. 116, pp. 56โ€“73, 2019. New Classes (NC), New Instances (NI), New Instances and Classes (NIC) + Single Incremental (SIT) /Multi (MT) /Multi Incremental (MIT) Task

Task-Free Continual Learning, by R. Aljundi, K. Kelchtermans, and T. Tuytelaars, CVPR, 2019.

Continual Prototype Evolution: Learning Online from Non-Stationary Data Streams, by M. De Lange and T. Tuytelaars, ICCV, 2021. Data-incremental and comparisons with other CL scenarios

Survey presenting CL scenarios

Continual Learning for Robotics: Definition, Framework, Learning Strategies, Opportunities and Challenges by Timothรฉe Lesort, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Andrei Stoian, Davide Maltoni, David Filliat and Natalia Dรญaz-Rodr\วตuez. Information Fusion, 52--68, 2020. Section 3, in particular.

CL benchmarks

CORe50: a New Dataset and Benchmark for Continuous Object Recognition, by V. Lomonaco and D. Maltoni, Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning, vol. 78, pp. 17โ€“26, 2017.

OpenLORIS-Object: A Robotic Vision Dataset and Benchmark for Lifelong Deep Learning, by Q. She et al. ICRA, 2020.

Incremental Object Learning From Contiguous Views, by S. Stojanov et al., CVPR, 2019. CRIB benchmark

Stream-51: Streaming Classification and Novelty Detection From Videos, by R. Roady, T. L. Hayes, H. Vaidya, and C. Kanan, CVPR 2019.

Efficient Lifelong Learning with A-GEM, by A. Chaudhry, M. Ranzato, M. Rohrbach, and M. Elhoseiny, ICLR, 2019. Evaluation protocol with "split by experiences".

Gradient Episodic Memory for Continual Learning, by D. Lopez-Paz and M. Ranzato, NIPS, 2017. popular formalization of ACC, BWT, FWT.

CLEVA-Compass: A Continual Learning EValuation Assessment Compass to Promote Research Transparency and Comparability, by M. Mundt, S. Lang, Q. Delfosse, and K. Kersting, arXiv, 2021.

Donโ€™t forget, there is more than forgetting: new metrics for Continual Learning, by N. Dรญaz-Rodrรญguez, V. Lomonaco, D. Filliat, and D. Maltoni, arXiv, 2018. definition of additional metrics

Replay

GDumb: A Simple Approach that Questions Our Progress in Continual Learning, by A. Prabhu, P. H. S. Torr, and P. K. Dokania, ECCV, 2020.

Online Continual Learning with Maximal Interfered Retrieval, by R. Aljundi et al., NeurIPS, 2019.

Latent replay

Latent Replay for Real-Time Continual Learning, by Lorenzo Pellegrini, Gabriele Graffieti, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Davide Maltoni, IROS, 2020.

Generative replay

Continual Learning with Deep Generative Replay, by H. Shin, J. K. Lee, J. Kim, and J. Kim, NeurIPS, 2017.

Brain-inspired replay for continual learning with artificial neural networks, by G. M. van de Ven, H. T. Siegelmann, and A. S. Tolias, Nature Communications, 2020

L1, L2, Dropout

An Empirical Investigation of Catatrophic Forgetting in Gradient-Based Neural Networks, by Goodfellow et al, 2015.

Understanding the Role of Training Regimes in Continual Learning, by Mirzadeh et al., NeurIPS, 2020.

Regularization strategies

Learning without Forgetting, by Li et al., TPAMI 2017.

Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks, by Kirkpatrick et al, PNAS 2017.

Continual Learning Through Synaptic Intelligence, by Zenke et al., 2017.

Continual learning with hypernetworks, by Von Osvald et al., ICLR 2020.

Architectural strategies

Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning over Small Non-I.I.D. Batches, by Lomonaco et al, CLVision Workshop at CVPR 2020. CWR*

Progressive Neural Networks, by Rusu et al., arXiv, 2016.

PackNet: Adding Multiple Tasks to a Single Network by Iterative Pruning, by Mallya et al., CVPR, 2018.

Overcoming catastrophic forgetting with hard attention to the task, by Serra et al., ICML, 2018.

Supermasks in Superposition, by Wortsman et al., NeurIPS, 2020.

Hybrid strategies

Gradient Episodic Memory for Continual Learning, by Lopez-Paz et al, NeurIPS 2017 GEM.

iCaRL: Incremental Classifier and Representation Learning, by Rebuffi et al, CVPR, 2017.

Progress & Compress: A scalable framework for continual learning, by Schwarz et al, ICML, 2018.

Latent Replay for Real-Time Continual Learning, by L. Pellegrini et al., IROS 2020 AR1*.

Applications

Continual Learning at the Edge: Real-Time Training on Smartphone Devices, by L. Pellegrini et al., ESANN, 2021.

Continual Learning in Practice by T. Diethe et al., Continual Learning Workshop at NeurIPS, 2018.

Startups / Companies: CogitAI, Neurala, Gantry

Tools / Libraries: Avalanche, Continuum, Sequoia, CL-Gym

Embracing Change: Continual Learning in Deep Neural Networks, by Hadsell et al., Trends in Cognitive Science, 2020. Continual meta learning - Meta continual learning

Towards Continual Reinforcement Learning: A Review and Perspectives, by Khetarpal et al, arXiv, 2020.

Continual Unsupervised Representation Learning, by D. Rao et al., NeurIPS 2019.

Distributed Continual Learning Ex-Model: Continual Learning from a Stream of Trained Models, by Carta et al., arXiv, 2021.

Continual Sequence Learning Continual learning for recurrent neural networks: An empirical evaluation, by Cossu et al, Neural Networks, vol. 143, pp. 607โ€“627, 2021. Continual Learning with Echo State Networks, by Cossu et al., ESANN, 2021.

Software

Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual Learning, the software library based on PyTorch used for the coding session of this course.

ContinualAI Colab notebooks, coding continual learning from scratch in notebooks

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