arXiv Machine Learning

CLARE: Scalable Class-Incremental Continual Learning via a Sparsity-Based Framework

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Realistic Continual Learning Approach using Pre-trained Models

arXiv:2404.07729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning (CL) evaluates adaptability in learning solutions to retain knowledge. Our research addresses the challenge of catastrophic forg...

By Nadia Nasri, Carlos Guti\'errez-\'Alvarez, Sergio Lafuente-Arroyo, Saturnino Maldonado-Basc\'on, Roberto J. L\'opez-Sastre
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

HERD: Harness-Evolving Recursive Distillation for Continual Learning

HERD (Harness-Evolving Recursive Distillation) is a hybrid continual learning framework that combines harness-based non‑parametric methods with parametric distillation. It refines reusable skills in a harness while storing high‑residual examples in bounded memory, and applies drift‑constrained distillation with dual anchors to reduce forgetting. On the 25‑stage TRACE+17 task stream, HERD matches the best parametric baseline in new‑task learning while achieving the lowest forgetting and strongest retention of general capabilities under fixed memory and compute budgets.

By Xun Sun, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Thuy-Trang Vu
arXiv AI
Jul 22

Soft-TransFormers for Continual Learning

arXiv:2411. 16073v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inspired by the Well-initialized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (WLTH), we introduce Soft-TransFormers (Soft-TF), a continual learning framework that adapts a frozen pre-trained Transformer through task-specific soft subnetworks: real-valued multiplicative masks over the query, key, value, and output projections of selected self-attention layers.

By Haeyong Kang, Chang D. Yoo