arXiv Machine Learning

CoMetaPNS: Continually Meta-learning Personalized Neural Surrogates for Cardiac Electrophysiology Simulations

arXiv:2606. 07488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized virtual heart simulations face challenges in model personalization and computational cost.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Beyond Discrete Samples: High Information Density Replay for Efficient Lifelong Person Re-Identification

The paper introduces HiDeR, a High Information Density Replay framework for Lifelong Person Re-Identification that replaces discrete sample selection with information compression. It uses a complexity‑aware memory allocation based on intra‑class variance and a metric‑guided condensation objective to preserve essential identity topologies, while a cross‑modality adaptation strategy bridges synthetic and real styles to improve training. Experiments show HiDeR outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in knowledge retention and generalization, and reduces cumulative replay cost.

By Mingyu Wang, Wei Jiang, Haojie Liu, Zhiyong Li, Weijie Mao
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Metaplasticity as adaptive gradient preconditioning for incremental learning

arXiv:2608. 14634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological intelligence naturally prevents catastrophic forgetting through Complementary Learning Systems (CLS) theory, a macroscopic consolidation process driven at the local level by synaptic metaplasticity: the continuous, history-dependent neuromodulation of individual synapses.

By Isabelle Aguilar, Zayn Andre Zainal, Omid Kavehei
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

Forgetting is Everywhere

arXiv:2511. 04666v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A fundamental challenge in developing general learning algorithms is their tendency to forget past knowledge as they adapt to new data.

By Ben Sanati, Thomas L. Lee, Trevor McInroe, Aidan Scannell, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, David Abel, Amos Storkey
arXiv AI
2d ago

Local Support Learning

arXiv:2610.02126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We explore catastrophic forgetting in the context of large pre-trained models. By considering forgetting as a geometric problem in the input space of...

By Assaf Ben-Kish, Akarsh Kumar, James Glass, Raja Giryes
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Unsupervised Continual Learning with Growing Self-Organizing Maps and Synthetic Replay

The paper introduces a generative continual learning framework that uses growing self‑organizing maps (GSOMs) enhanced with learned distributional statistics and encoder‑decoder models for class‑incremental learning. GSOM units store mean, variance, and covariance estimates to synthesize replay samples, enabling exemplar‑free training without raw data or explicit task boundaries. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that the unsupervised method competes with supervised memory‑based approaches and outperforms memory‑free baselines, especially in single‑class incremental scenarios, and provides baseline results for TinyImageNet and MiniImageNet.

By Pujan Thapa, Alexander Ororbia, Travis Desell
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

MedCRP-CL: Continual Medical Image Segmentation via Bayesian Nonparametric Semantic Modality Discovery

arXiv:2605. 20297v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation faces a fundamental challenge in continual learning: data arrives sequentially from heterogeneous sources, yet effective continual learning requires discovering which tasks share sufficient structure to benefit from joint learning.

By Ziyuan Gao