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Efficient lifelong learning with A-GEM.CoRR, abs/1812.00420

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In lifelong learning, the learner is presented with a sequence of tasks, incrementally building a data-driven prior which may be leveraged to speed up learning of a new task. In this work, we investigate the efficiency of current lifelong approaches, in terms of sample complexity, computational and memory cost. Towards this end, we first introduce a new and a more realistic evaluation protocol, whereby learners observe each example only once and hyper-parameter selection is done on a small and disjoint set of tasks, which is not used for the actual learning experience and evaluation. Second, we introduce a new metric measuring how quickly a learner acquires a new skill. Third, we propose an improved version of GEM (Lopez-Paz & Ranzato, 2017), dubbed Averaged GEM (A-GEM), which enjoys the same or even better performance as GEM, while being almost as computationally and memory efficient as EWC (Kirkpatrick et al., 2016) and other regularization-based methods. Finally, we show that all algorithms including A-GEM can learn even more quickly if they are provided with task descriptors specifying the classification tasks under consideration. Our experiments on several standard lifelong learning benchmarks demonstrate that A-GEM has the best trade-off between accuracy and efficiency.

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CRAFT: Forgetting-Aware Intervention-Based Adaptation for Continual Learning

cs.LG · 2026-05-07 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0 · 2 refs

CRAFT is a continual learning method for LLMs that learns low-rank interventions on hidden representations, using a unified KL-divergence objective to handle task routing by output divergence, forgetting control via prior-state regularization, and intervention merging.

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