REVIEW 4 major objections 7 minor 99 references
Continual Learning Beyond Experience Rehearsal and Full Model Surrogates
T0 review · 4 major / 7 minor · reviewed 2026-08-07 · deepseek-v4-flash
Pith's one-line read SPARC, a rehearsal-free, surrogate-free parameter-isolation method, matches or beats replay-based continual learners with a small fraction of their parameters.
desk verdict A rehearsal-free parameter-isolation method with strong benchmark results, but the Class-IL gains rest on an unablated activation-based re-normalization step that needs a no-normalization baseline and sensitivity analysis before it can be taken at face value. read the letter →
The pith
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
The reading
What carries the argument
The load-bearing mechanism is the depthwise-separable convolution split: each task's working memory uses per-channel depthwise filters and a half-task-specific, half-shared pointwise filter bank, so the task-agnostic semantic memory is literally a subset of pointwise filters updated by Eq. 4 with EMA coefficient alpha=0.99. A second mechanism, Eq. 5, re-normalizes each task's classifier weights and biases by kappa/eta where eta is drawn from the upper tail of that task's activation quartiles, which the paper argues equalizes activation magnitudes across sub-networks in Class-IL inference. The third component is per-task batch normalization statistics, which avoids the train-test mismatch that arises when the same BN layer sees non-stationary data. Together these parts keep SPARC's parameter growth linear but slow (1.04M to 3.62M for 5 to 20 tasks on Seq-CIFAR100).
What would settle it
Train SPARC on Seq-CIFAR100 (5 tasks) exactly as described but with the re-normalization in Eq. 5 disabled (or with kappa=1); if per-task Class-IL accuracies stay balanced and final average accuracy stays near 49%, the reported gains do not depend on the heuristic. Alternatively, measure the max activation set A^t; if the chosen eta lands at the cap a <= Q3 + IQR on every task, the scaling is doing little work.
Extended reading notes
Core claim
On the paper's own terms, the discovery is that a carefully chosen parameter-isolation architecture can deliver the benefits of complementary learning systems without either experience rehearsal or full-model surrogates. SPARC grows a small sub-network per task, replacing ordinary convolutions with depthwise-separable convolutions to keep that sub-network cheap; half of the pointwise filters in each block are task-specific, while the other half are shared across tasks and updated at task boundaries as an exponential moving average of the previous task's filters. After each task, the classifier weights and biases are re-normalized using a per-task scale derived from the distribution of maximum activations, which the paper reports removes task-recency bias and yields balanced per-task accuracy. Empirically the method reports the best Class-IL accuracy in its comparison table on Seq-CIFAR100 (5 tasks) and Seq-TinyImageNet (10 tasks), with parameter counts an order of magnitude below surrogate-based baselines.
Load-bearing premise
The load-bearing premise is that the activation-derived re-normalization, with its fixed constant kappa=5, equalizes task-specific classifier scales on new datasets and task orders without validation data, an effect never tested by ablation.
Editorial extensions
If this is right
- SPARC can be deployed in memory-constrained settings such as edge devices without a replay buffer, eliminating privacy and storage concerns tied to rehearsal.
- Long task sequences remain affordable: on Seq-CIFAR100, parameter count grows from 1.04M at 5 tasks to 3.62M at 20 tasks, versus 216.7M to 2645M for progressive networks.
- The weight re-normalization provides a validation-free way to counteract recency bias, so parameter-isolation methods can be used for class-incremental inference where task identity is unknown.
- Since task-agnostic filters are shared, the model performs cross-task consolidation implicitly, so it can improve current-task performance without storing previous data.
- Performance scales with capacity: widening or deepening the backbone raises Class-IL accuracy (up to 52.48% on Seq-CIFAR100 at full width), giving users a direct efficiency-accuracy trade-off.
Reading between the lines
- The activation-quartile normalization is a post-hoc calibration technique that could transfer to other modular or parameter-isolated architectures, including prompt- or adapter-based continual learning, though the paper only tests it inside SPARC.
- Varying the shared fraction of pointwise filters (currently fixed at half) is a natural experiment the paper does not run; the optimal ratio likely depends on task similarity and could further reduce parameter growth or improve forward transfer.
- Because SPARC distributes capacity equally across tasks, its static allocation may over- or under-provision on uneven tasks; a similarity-based or difficulty-based allocation would be a direct extension.
- The reported gains depend on comparing against baselines with much larger footprints; an apples-to-apples study with surrogate methods shrunk to SPARC's budget would clarify how much of the benefit comes from parameter isolation versus the DSC backbone.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The paper proposes SPARC, a rehearsal-free, surrogate-free continual-learning method. Task-specific 'working memories' are per-task depthwise-separable convolutional filter banks with task-specific batch normalization and a per-task classifier head; a task-agnostic 'semantic memory' is formed by sharing half of the pointwise filters across tasks and updating them with an exponential moving average at task boundaries (Eq. 4). A final classifier weight re-normalization (Eq. 5) rescales each task's classifier weights and biases by an activation-derived constant η computed from training-set FC maxima, with scale κ=5. The main empirical claims are: superior Class-IL accuracy on Seq-TinyImageNet (32.29% vs 23.47% for CLS-ER) and Seq-CIFAR100-5T (49.03% vs 43.80%) relative to rehearsal/surrogate baselines at a 200-sample buffer; parameter use of roughly 6% of full-model surrogates (1.04M, 1.90M, and 3.62M parameters for 5/10/20 tasks on CIFAR100); and competitive Task-IL accuracy. Ablations cover semantic consolidation (Table 5), width/depth scaling (Table 3), and EMA stability (Figure 4); additional analyses address forgetting, task-recency bias, and longer task sequences.
Significance. If correct, SPARC is a significant data point for efficient continual learning: it demonstrates that strict parameter isolation built on depthwise-separable convolutions, combined with a shared pointwise semantic memory, can reach or exceed the Class-IL accuracy of memory-intensive surrogate/replay systems at a fraction of the parameter budget. The paper has real experimental strengths: the backbone-matched control in Table 9 (DSC-equipped ER/DER++ still trail SPARC substantially), the complete-isolation ablation in Table 5, the EMA stability analysis in Figure 4, the parameter-growth table, and a candid limitations appendix. The principal weakness is attribution: the Class-IL gains rely on the Eq. 5 rescaling, which is never ablated against the raw model and whose free constants (κ, the IQR fence) are never swept, so it is unknown whether the headline results reflect the architecture, the calibration heuristic, or both. The Task-IL results, which are unaffected by the rescaling, partially mitigate this concern, but the central Class-IL claim needs the missing experiments before the conclusions can be taken at face value.
major comments (4)
- [§3.3, Eq. 5; §A.2; Tables 1–2] The stress-test concern is borne out by the manuscript as written: the headline Class-IL numbers (Seq-TinyImageNet 32.29% vs 23.47% for CLS-ER; Seq-CIFAR100-5T 49.03% vs 43.80%) depend on the activation-derived rescaling in Eq. 5, yet no configuration of SPARC without re-normalization is reported anywhere. Figure 6 compares re-normalization only against weight alignment (another rescaling method), not against the raw model, so the reader cannot tell whether the Class-IL advantage comes from the parameter-isolation architecture or from the specific rescaling recipe. Eq. 5 introduces two free choices — κ=5 and the IQR fence Q3+IQR — and the paper asserts in F.1 that no dataset-specific tuning is used, but no sensitivity analysis is provided for either choice. I request: (a) a no-re-normalization ablation on both main benchmarks; (b) a sweep over κ (e.g., 1, 2, 5, 10) and over the fence multiplier; and (c) an experiment applying the identical re-normalization to a strong surrogate-based baseline such as CLS-ER, to determine whether the improvement is architecture-specific or a generic post-hoc calibration gain. The Task-IL results are unaffected by this concern and help bound it, but they do not resolve it.
- [§3.2, Eq. 4; §3.4; §A.1] The semantic-memory update is specified inconsistently. Eq. 4 reads K̃c ← αK̃c + (1−α)K̃^{t−1} for t>2, while §3.4 and A.1 state that the EMA applies 'from the second task onward.' As written, the update at the end of task t never incorporates the pointwise filters trained on task t (it re-uses the already-frozen t−1 filters), which cannot be the intended algorithm; conversely the text's 'from the second task' contradicts the t>2 condition. Since α=0.99 and the update timing directly determine the consolidation behavior analyzed in Figure 4 and the results in Table 5, the exact update rule must be stated unambiguously: correct the index and the range, and specify whether the shared pointwise filters receive any gradient updates after task 1. As printed, the method is not reproducible.
- [Table 1; §4.1] The SPARC rows report standard deviations of 0.01–0.05 percentage points across three seeds (e.g., 32.29±0.01 and 65.66±0.01 on Seq-TinyImageNet; 49.03±0.05 on Seq-CIFAR100-5T). This is orders of magnitude below the seed-to-seed variation typically observed for deep continual-learning runs and far below the baseline variations in the same table (e.g., CLS-ER ±0.80). Please report the individual per-seed accuracies (or explain what the standard deviation was computed over); if the three runs share seeds or restrict stochasticity in some way, that must be stated, because it materially affects how the comparisons should be read.
- [Appendix E.3; §3.1; Table 4] Appendix E.3 states that SPARC 'assume[s] the knowledge of the number of tasks beforehand and equally distribute[s] total capacity among all tasks,' which is in tension with the main-text framing in §3.1 and §3.4 of allocating a fixed per-task subnetwork at each task boundary, and with the claim of linear growth. If the per-task filter budget (32/64/128/256, F.1) is fixed, no advance knowledge of the task count is needed and 'equal distribution' is vacuous; if, instead, per-task capacity is derived from an assumed total, that is a real deployment constraint that should appear in the main text. Please clarify which is the case, and reconcile Table 4's parameter growth with the stated linear-growth claim.
minor comments (7)
- [§4.2] The text refers to 'dynamic sparse methods (CLIP, NISPA, PackNet)'; the first name should be CLNP to match the legend of Figure 2.
- [Tables 3 and 5] The same SPARC configuration (width 0.5, depth 4) is reported as 49.03±0.05 in Table 3 and as 49.13±0.25 in Table 5; please reconcile.
- [Table 9] The '#Filters per task' entries [160, 320, 640, 1280] for ER and DER++ conflict with the text's statement that competitors are 'equipped with the same number of filters' as SPARC; presumably these are totals summed over the five tasks, but the caption should say so explicitly.
- [§A.3] The phrase 'Large Large Language Models (LLMs)' contains a duplicated word.
- [§F.3] The training-epoch exceptions list IMEX-Reg and DER++ w/ FPF, but neither method appears in Table 1; this appears to be leftover text from an earlier draft.
- [Figure 6 (left)] The legend labels 'Pre Weight Alignment' and 'Post Weight Alignment' in a panel whose caption says 'Effect of Weight Re-normalization'; the labels should refer to re-normalization.
- [General] No code or per-seed logs are released; given the ambiguity of Eq. 4 and the unusually low reported variance, releasing the code or per-seed accuracy logs would materially aid verification.
Circularity Check
No circular reasoning: SPARC is an empirically evaluated architecture; its few heuristic choices are hand-set constants tested against external benchmarks, not derivations from the target claims.
full rationale
SPARC is presented as an empirical continual learning method, not as a derivation from first principles. The architecture components (DSC task-specific sub-networks, shared pointwise EMA consolidation, and activation-derived classifier rescaling in Eq. 5) are fixed design choices whose values are evaluated on standard benchmarks (Seq-CIFAR100, Seq-TinyImageNet, Seq-MiniImageNet) against external baselines. The weight re-normalization heuristic with kappa=5 is a hand-set hyperparameter, not a fitted parameter disguised as a prediction, and the paper does not derive a performance number from it by construction. Self-citations to CLS-ER, TAMiL, and TriRE are used as baselines or as prior building blocks (EMA consolidation), but the central claim does not rest on an unverified self-citation: SPARC's accuracy is measured independently on held-out test sets with standard CL protocols. The absence of a no-normalization ablation and the lack of sensitivity analysis for kappa and the IQR fence are legitimate robustness/correctness concerns, but they are not circularity because the reported numbers are external empirical outcomes rather than consequences of the method's definition. No equation in the paper reduces a claimed prediction to an input by construction, and no uniqueness or existence theorem is imported from the authors' own prior work to force the design. The paper is therefore essentially self-contained against external evidence, and the only mild self-relational aspect is the reuse of the authors' own CLS-inspired baselines, which does not make any result circular.
Assumptions & free parameters
free parameters (3)
- EMA decay alpha =
0.99
- Weight re-normalization constant kappa =
5
- Per-task filter widths =
[32, 64, 128, 256] depthwise filters for layers 1-4
assumptions (3)
- domain assumption Task boundary and total task count are known before training; capacity is pre-partitioned equally among tasks.
- ad hoc to paper The interquartile-based max activation eta, with kappa=5, correctly rebalances classifier scales across tasks.
- domain assumption Depthwise separable convolutions preserve enough representational capacity for continual learning tasks.
invented entities (2)
-
Task-agnostic semantic memory (shared half of pointwise filters)
independent evidence
-
Task-specific working memories (depthwise filter sets per task)
independent evidence
Cite this review
Pith. "Pith review of Continual Learning Beyond Experience Rehearsal and Full Model Surrogates." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/2LR2CZW6
@misc{pith2026250521942,
author = {Pith},
title = {Pith review of: Continual Learning Beyond Experience Rehearsal and Full Model Surrogates},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/2LR2CZW6}},
note = {Machine review of arXiv:2505.21942}
}
read the original abstract
Continual learning (CL) has remained a significant challenge for deep neural networks as learning new tasks erases previously acquired knowledge, either partially or completely. Existing solutions often rely on experience rehearsal or full model surrogates to mitigate CF. While effective, these approaches introduce substantial memory and computational overhead, limiting their scalability and applicability in real-world scenarios. To address this, we propose SPARC, a scalable CL approach that eliminates the need for experience rehearsal and full-model surrogates. By effectively combining task-specific working memories and task-agnostic semantic memory for cross-task knowledge consolidation, SPARC results in a remarkable parameter efficiency, using only 6% of the parameters required by full-model surrogates. Despite its lightweight design, SPARC achieves superior performance on Seq-TinyImageNet and matches rehearsal-based methods on various CL benchmarks. Additionally, weight re-normalization in the classification layer mitigates task-specific biases, establishing SPARC as a practical and scalable solution for CL under stringent efficiency constraints.
Figures
Figures from the paper (6 more)
Reference graph
Works this paper leans on
-
[1]
write newline
" write newline "" before.all 'output.state := FUNCTION n.dashify 't := "" t empty not t #1 #1 substring "-" = t #1 #2 substring "--" = not "--" * t #2 global.max substring 't := t #1 #1 substring "-" = "-" * t #2 global.max substring 't := while if t #1 #1 substring * t #2 global.max substring 't := if while FUNCTION format.date year duplicate empty "emp...
-
[2]
Sparsity and Heterogeneous Dropout for Continual Learning in the Null Space of Neural Activations
Abbasi, A., Nooralinejad, P., Braverman, V., Pirsiavash, H., and Kolouri, S. Sparsity and Heterogeneous Dropout for Continual Learning in the Null Space of Neural Activations . In Proceedings of The 1st Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents , pp.\ 617--628. PMLR, November 2022. ISSN: 2640-3498
2022
-
[3]
Expert gate: Lifelong learning with a network of experts
Aljundi, R., Chakravarty, P., and Tuytelaars, T. Expert gate: Lifelong learning with a network of experts. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 3366--3375, 2017
2017
-
[4]
Online continual learning with maximal interfered retrieval
Aljundi, R., Belilovsky, E., Tuytelaars, T., Charlin, L., Caccia, M., Lin, M., and Page-Caccia, L. Online continual learning with maximal interfered retrieval. Advances in neural information processing systems, 32, 2019
2019
-
[5]
Learning fast, learning slow: A general continual learning method based on complementary learning system
Arani, E., Sarfraz, F., and Zonooz, B. Learning fast, learning slow: A general continual learning method based on complementary learning system. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022
2022
-
[6]
and Laughlin, S
Attwell, D. and Laughlin, S. B. An energy budget for signaling in the grey matter of the brain. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 21 0 (10): 0 1133--1145, 2001
2001
-
[7]
C., Dale, D., Dong, N., Duquenne, P.-A., Elsahar, H., Gong, H., Heffernan, K., Hoffman, J., et al
Barrault, L., Chung, Y.-A., Meglioli, M. C., Dale, D., Dong, N., Duquenne, P.-A., Elsahar, H., Gong, H., Heffernan, K., Hoffman, J., et al. Seamlessm4t-massively multilingual & multimodal machine translation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.11596, 2023
arXiv 2023
-
[8]
Barth, A. L. and Poulet, J. F. Experimental evidence for sparse firing in the neocortex. Trends in neurosciences, 35 0 (6): 0 345--355, 2012
2012
Show all 99 references
-
[9]
Mitigating interference in the knowledge continuum through attention-guided incremental learning
Bhat, P., Renjith, B., Arani, E., and Zonooz, B. Mitigating interference in the knowledge continuum through attention-guided incremental learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.13978, 2024 a
2024 arXiv
-
[10]
IMEX - Reg : Implicit - Explicit Regularization in the Function Space for Continual Learning , April 2024 b
Bhat, P., Renjith, B., Arani, E., and Zonooz, B. IMEX - Reg : Implicit - Explicit Regularization in the Function Space for Continual Learning , April 2024 b . arXiv:2404.18161 [cs]
2024 arXiv
-
[11]
S., Zonooz, B., and Arani, E
Bhat, P. S., Zonooz, B., and Arani, E. Consistency is the key to further mitigating catastrophic forgetting in continual learning. In Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents, pp.\ 1195--1212. PMLR, 2022 a
2022
-
[12]
S., Zonooz, B., and Arani, E
Bhat, P. S., Zonooz, B., and Arani, E. Task agnostic representation consolidation: a self-supervised based continual learning approach. In Chandar, S., Pascanu, R., and Precup, D. (eds.), Proceedings of The 1st Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents, volume 199 of Proceedings ...
2022
-
[13]
S., Zonooz, B., and Arani, E
Bhat, P. S., Zonooz, B., and Arani, E. Task-aware information routing from common representation space in lifelong learning. In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations, 2023
2023
-
[14]
On the effectiveness of lipschitz-driven rehearsal in continual learning
Bonicelli, L., Boschini, M., Porrello, A., Spampinato, C., and Calderara, S. On the effectiveness of lipschitz-driven rehearsal in continual learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35: 0 31886--31901, 2022
2022
-
[15]
Brown, T. B. Language models are few-shot learners. arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.14165, 2020
2005 arXiv
-
[16]
Dark experience for general continual learning: a strong, simple baseline
Buzzega, P., Boschini, M., Porrello, A., Abati, D., and Calderara, S. Dark experience for general continual learning: a strong, simple baseline. Advances in neural information processing systems, 33: 0 15920--15930, 2020
2020
-
[17]
New insights on reducing abrupt representation change in online continual learning
Caccia, L., Aljundi, R., Asadi, N., Tuytelaars, T., Pineau, J., and Belilovsky, E. New insights on reducing abrupt representation change in online continual learning. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021 a
2021
-
[18]
Reducing representation drift in online continual learning
Caccia, L., Aljundi, R., Asadi, N., Tuytelaars, T., Pineau, J., and Belilovsky, E. Reducing representation drift in online continual learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05025, 2021 b
2021 arXiv
-
[19]
Co2l: Contrastive continual learning
Cha, H., Lee, J., and Shin, J. Co2l: Contrastive continual learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, pp.\ 9516--9525, 2021
2021
-
[20]
K., Ajanthan, T., and Torr, P
Chaudhry, A., Dokania, P. K., Ajanthan, T., and Torr, P. H. Riemannian walk for incremental learning: Understanding forgetting and intransigence. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), pp.\ 532--547, 2018
2018
-
[21]
Xception: Deep Learning with Depthwise Separable Convolutions , April 2017
Chollet, F. Xception: Deep Learning with Depthwise Separable Convolutions , April 2017. arXiv:1610.02357 [cs]
2017 arXiv
-
[22]
A continual learning survey: Defying forgetting in classification tasks
De Lange, M., Aljundi, R., Masana, M., Parisot, S., Jia, X., Leonardis, A., Slabaugh, G., and Tuytelaars, T. A continual learning survey: Defying forgetting in classification tasks. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 44 0 (7): 0 3366--3385, 2021
2021
-
[23]
Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding
Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., and Toutanova, K. Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04805, 2018
2018 arXiv
-
[24]
Uncertainty-guided continual learning with bayesian neural networks
Ebrahimi, S., Elhoseiny, M., Darrell, T., and Rohrbach, M. Uncertainty-guided continual learning with bayesian neural networks. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2020
2020
-
[25]
Continual learning via neural pruning
Golkar, S., Kagan, M., and Cho, K. Continual learning via neural pruning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04476, 2019
1903 arXiv
-
[26]
Fecam: Exploiting the heterogeneity of class distributions in exemplar-free continual learning
Goswami, D., Liu, Y., Twardowski, B., and van de Weijer, J. Fecam: Exploiting the heterogeneity of class distributions in exemplar-free continual learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36, 2024 a
2024
-
[27]
Resurrecting old classes with new data for exemplar-free continual learning
Goswami, D., Soutif-Cormerais, A., Liu, Y., Kamath, S., Twardowski, B., van de Weijer, J., et al. Resurrecting old classes with new data for exemplar-free continual learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 28525--2853...
2024
-
[28]
Network decoupling: From regular to depthwise separable convolutions
Guo, J., Li, Y., Lin, W., Chen, Y., and Li, J. Network decoupling: From regular to depthwise separable convolutions. In BMVC, 2018
2018
-
[29]
Depthwise Convolution is All You Need for Learning Multiple Visual Domains , February 2019
Guo, Y., Li, Y., Feris, R., Wang, L., and Rosing, T. Depthwise Convolution is All You Need for Learning Multiple Visual Domains , February 2019. arXiv:1902.00927 [cs]
2019 arXiv
-
[30]
Gurbuz, M. B. and Dovrolis, C. Nispa: Neuro-inspired stability-plasticity adaptation for continual learning in sparse networks. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp.\ 8157--8174. PMLR, 2022
2022
-
[31]
A., and Pascanu, R
Hadsell, R., Rao, D., Rusu, A. A., and Pascanu, R. Embracing change: Continual learning in deep neural networks. Trends in cognitive sciences, 24 0 (12): 0 1028--1040, 2020
2020
-
[32]
Deep residual learning for image recognition
He, K., Zhang, X., Ren, S., and Sun, J. Deep residual learning for image recognition. In Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp.\ 770--778, 2016
2016
-
[33]
Pyramidal cell communication within local networks in layer 2/3 of rat neocortex
Holmgren, C., Harkany, T., Svennenfors, B., and Zilberter, Y. Pyramidal cell communication within local networks in layer 2/3 of rat neocortex. The Journal of physiology, 551 0 (1): 0 139--153, 2003
2003
-
[34]
C., Wang, Z., and Lin, D
Hou, S., Pan, X., Loy, C. C., Wang, Z., and Lin, D. Learning a unified classifier incrementally via rebalancing. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2019
2019
-
[35]
Parameter-efficient transfer learning for nlp
Houlsby, N., Giurgiu, A., Jastrzebski, S., Morrone, B., De Laroussilhe, Q., Gesmundo, A., Attariyan, M., and Gelly, S. Parameter-efficient transfer learning for nlp. In International conference on machine learning, pp.\ 2790--2799. PMLR, 2019
2019
-
[36]
Inverted residuals and linear bottlenecks: Mobile networks for classification, detection and segmentation
Howard, A., Zhmoginov, A., Chen, L.-C., Sandler, M., and Zhu, M. Inverted residuals and linear bottlenecks: Mobile networks for classification, detection and segmentation. In Proc. CVPR, pp.\ 4510--4520, 2018
2018
-
[37]
G., Zhu, M., Chen, B., Kalenichenko, D., Wang, W., Weyand, T., Andreetto, M., and Adam, H
Howard, A. G., Zhu, M., Chen, B., Kalenichenko, D., Wang, W., Weyand, T., Andreetto, M., and Adam, H. MobileNets : Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications , April 2017. arXiv:1704.04861 [cs]
2017 arXiv
-
[38]
J., Shen, Y., Wallis, P., Allen-Zhu, Z., Li, Y., Wang, S., Wang, L., and Chen, W
Hu, E. J., Shen, Y., Wallis, P., Allen-Zhu, Z., Li, Y., Wang, S., Wang, L., and Chen, W. Lora: Low-rank adaptation of large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09685, 2021
2021 arXiv
-
[39]
Compacting, picking and growing for unforgetting continual learning
Hung, C.-Y., Tu, C.-H., Wu, C.-E., Chen, C.-H., Chan, Y.-M., and Chen, C.-S. Compacting, picking and growing for unforgetting continual learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 32, 2019 a
2019
-
[40]
C., Lee, J.-H., Wan, T
Hung, S. C., Lee, J.-H., Wan, T. S., Chen, C.-H., Chan, Y.-M., and Chen, C.-S. Increasingly packing multiple facial-informatics modules in a unified deep-learning model via lifelong learning. In Proceedings of the 2019 on International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, pp.\ ...
2019
-
[41]
Birt: bio-inspired replay in vision transformers for continual learning
Jeeveswaran, K., Bhat, P., Zonooz, B., and Arani, E. Birt: bio-inspired replay in vision transformers for continual learning. In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, pp.\ 14817--14835, 2023
2023
-
[42]
Kang, H., Mina, R. J. L., Madjid, S. R. H., Yoon, J., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Hwang, S. J., and Yoo, C. D. Forget-free continual learning with winning subnetworks. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp.\ 10734--10750. PMLR, 2022
2022
-
[43]
C., Lo, W.-Y., et al
Kirillov, A., Mintun, E., Ravi, N., Mao, H., Rolland, C., Gustafson, L., Xiao, T., Whitehead, S., Berg, A. C., Lo, W.-Y., et al. Segment anything. arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02643, 2023
2023 arXiv
-
[44]
A., Milan, K., Quan, J., Ramalho, T., Grabska-Barwinska, A., et al
Kirkpatrick, J., Pascanu, R., Rabinowitz, N., Veness, J., Desjardins, G., Rusu, A. A., Milan, K., Quan, J., Ramalho, T., Grabska-Barwinska, A., et al. Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 114 0 (13): 0 3521--3526, 2017
2017
-
[45]
Learning multiple layers of features from tiny images
Krizhevsky, A., Hinton, G., et al. Learning multiple layers of features from tiny images. 2009
2009
-
[46]
Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I., and Hinton, G. E. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks. Communications of the ACM, 60 0 (6): 0 84--90, May 2012. ISSN 0001-0782, 1557-7317. doi:10.1145/3065386
2012 doi
-
[47]
P., Chakravarthi Raja, S., Cheney, N., Clune, J., et al
Kudithipudi, D., Aguilar-Simon, M., Babb, J., Bazhenov, M., Blackiston, D., Bongard, J., Brna, A. P., Chakravarthi Raja, S., Cheney, N., Clune, J., et al. Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4 0 (3): 0 196--210, 2022
2022
-
[48]
Investigating multilingual nmt representations at scale
Kudugunta, S., Bapna, A., Caswell, I., and Firat, O. Investigating multilingual nmt representations at scale. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EM...
2019
-
[49]
and Yang, X
Le, Y. and Yang, X. Tiny imagenet visual recognition challenge. CS 231N, 7 0 (7): 0 3, 2015
2015
-
[50]
Learning from students: Online contrastive distillation network for general continual learning
Li, J., Ji, Z., Wang, G., Wang, Q., and Gao, F. Learning from students: Online contrastive distillation network for general continual learning. In Proc. 31st Int. Joint Conf. Artif. Intell., pp.\ 3215--3221, 2022
2022
-
[51]
and Hoiem, D
Li, Z. and Hoiem, D. Learning without forgetting. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 40 0 (12): 0 2935--2947, 2017
2017
-
[52]
and Li, W.-J
Liang, Y.-S. and Li, W.-J. Inflora: Interference-free low-rank adaptation for continual learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 23638--23647, 2024
2024
-
[53]
Self-improving reactive agents based on reinforcement learning, planning and teaching
Lin, L.-J. Self-improving reactive agents based on reinforcement learning, planning and teaching. Machine Learning, 8 0 (3): 0 293--321, May 1992. ISSN 1573-0565. doi:10.1007/BF00992699
1992 doi
-
[54]
F., Cheng, K.-T., and Chen, M.-H
Liu, S.-Y., Wang, C.-Y., Yin, H., Molchanov, P., Wang, Y.-C. F., Cheng, K.-T., and Chen, M.-H. Dora: Weight-decomposed low-rank adaptation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09353, 2024
2024 arXiv
-
[55]
More classifiers, less forgetting: A generic multi-classifier paradigm for incremental learning
Liu, Y., Parisot, S., Slabaugh, G., Jia, X., Leonardis, A., and Tuytelaars, T. More classifiers, less forgetting: A generic multi-classifier paradigm for incremental learning. In Computer Vision--ECCV 2020: 16th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 23--28, 2020, Proceeding...
2020
-
[56]
Supervised contrastive replay: Revisiting the nearest class mean classifier in online class-incremental continual learning
Mai, Z., Li, R., Kim, H., and Sanner, S. Supervised contrastive replay: Revisiting the nearest class mean classifier in online class-incremental continual learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp.\ 3589--3599, 2021
2021
-
[57]
and Lazebnik, S
Mallya, A. and Lazebnik, S. Packnet: Adding multiple tasks to a single network by iterative pruning. In Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 7765--7773, 2018
2018
-
[58]
W., Abdellah, M., Sanchez, C
Markram, H., Muller, E., Ramaswamy, S., Reimann, M. W., Abdellah, M., Sanchez, C. A., Ailamaki, A., Alonso-Nanclares, L., Antille, N., Arsever, S., et al. Reconstruction and simulation of neocortical microcircuitry. Cell, 163 0 (2): 0 456--492, 2015
2015
-
[59]
D., and Van De Weijer, J
Masana, M., Liu, X., Twardowski, B., Menta, M., Bagdanov, A. D., and Van De Weijer, J. Class-incremental learning: survey and performance evaluation on image classification. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 45 0 (5): 0 5513--5533, 2022
2022
-
[60]
L., McNaughton, B
McClelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L., and O'Reilly, R. C. Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychological review, 102 0 (3): 0 419, 1995
1995
-
[61]
and Cohen, N
McCloskey, M. and Cohen, N. J. Catastrophic interference in connectionist networks: The sequential learning problem. In Psychology of learning and motivation, volume 24, pp.\ 109--165. Elsevier, 1989
1989
-
[62]
The stability-plasticity dilemma: Investigating the continuum from catastrophic forgetting to age-limited learning effects
Mermillod, M., Bugaiska, A., and Bonin, P. The stability-plasticity dilemma: Investigating the continuum from catastrophic forgetting to age-limited learning effects. Frontiers in psychology, 4: 0 504, 08 2013. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00504
2013
-
[63]
I., Chaudhry, A., Yin, D., Hu, H., Pascanu, R., Gorur, D., and Farajtabar, M
Mirzadeh, S. I., Chaudhry, A., Yin, D., Hu, H., Pascanu, R., Gorur, D., and Farajtabar, M. Wide neural networks forget less catastrophically. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp.\ 15699--15717. PMLR, 2022
2022
-
[64]
Can you trust your model's uncertainty? evaluating predictive uncertainty under dataset shift
Ovadia, Y., Fertig, E., Ren, J., Nado, Z., Sculley, D., Nowozin, S., Dillon, J., Lakshminarayanan, B., and Snoek, J. Can you trust your model's uncertainty? evaluating predictive uncertainty under dataset shift. Advances in neural information processing systems, 32, 2019
2019
-
[65]
I., Kemker, R., Part, J
Parisi, G. I., Kemker, R., Part, J. L., Kanan, C., and Wermter, S. Continual lifelong learning with neural networks: A review. Neural Networks, 113: 0 54--71, 2019
2019
-
[66]
Park, D., Hong, S., Han, B., and Lee, K. M. Continual learning by asymmetric loss approximation with single-side overestimation. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF international conference on computer vision, pp.\ 3335--3344, 2019
2019
-
[67]
Fetril: Feature translation for exemplar-free class-incremental learning
Petit, G., Popescu, A., Schindler, H., Picard, D., and Delezoide, B. Fetril: Feature translation for exemplar-free class-incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF winter conference on applications of computer vision, pp.\ 3911--3920, 2023
2023
-
[68]
Dualnet: Continual learning, fast and slow
Pham, Q., Liu, C., and Hoi, S. Dualnet: Continual learning, fast and slow. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34: 0 16131--16144, 2021 a
2021
-
[69]
Continual normalization: Rethinking batch normalization for online continual learning
Pham, Q., Liu, C., and Steven, H. Continual normalization: Rethinking batch normalization for online continual learning. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021 b
2021
-
[70]
Connectionist models of recognition memory: constraints imposed by learning and forgetting functions
Ratcliff, R. Connectionist models of recognition memory: constraints imposed by learning and forgetting functions. Psychological review, 97 0 (2): 0 285, 1990
1990
-
[71]
Online structured laplace approximations for overcoming catastrophic forgetting
Ritter, H., Botev, A., and Barber, D. Online structured laplace approximations for overcoming catastrophic forgetting. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 31, 2018
2018
-
[72]
A., Rabinowitz, N
Rusu, A. A., Rabinowitz, N. C., Desjardins, G., Soyer, H., Kirkpatrick, J., Kavukcuoglu, K., Pascanu, R., and Hadsell, R. Progressive neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.04671, 2016
2016 arXiv
-
[73]
Gradient Projection Memory for Continual Learning , March 2021
Saha, G., Garg, I., and Roy, K. Gradient Projection Memory for Continual Learning , March 2021. arXiv:2103.09762 [cs]
2021 arXiv
-
[74]
MobileNetV2 : Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks , March 2019
Sandler, M., Howard, A., Zhu, M., Zhmoginov, A., and Chen, L.-C. MobileNetV2 : Inverted Residuals and Linear Bottlenecks , March 2019. arXiv:1801.04381 [cs]
2019 arXiv
-
[75]
Synergy between synaptic consolidation and experience replay for general continual learning
Sarfraz, F., Arani, E., and Zonooz, B. Synergy between synaptic consolidation and experience replay for general continual learning. In Chandar, S., Pascanu, R., and Precup, D. (eds.), Proceedings of The 1st Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents, volume 199 of Proceedings of M...
2022
-
[76]
Sparse Coding in a Dual Memory System for Lifelong Learning , December 2022 b
Sarfraz, F., Arani, E., and Zonooz, B. Sparse Coding in a Dual Memory System for Lifelong Learning , December 2022 b . arXiv:2301.05058 [cs]
2022 arXiv
-
[77]
and Ye, M
Shi, W. and Ye, M. Prototype reminiscence and augmented asymmetric knowledge aggregation for non-exemplar class-incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, pp.\ 1772--1781, 2023
2023
-
[78]
and Mallat, S
Sifre, L. and Mallat, S. Rigid- Motion Scattering for Texture Classification , March 2014. arXiv:1403.1687 [cs]
2014 arXiv
-
[79]
S., Karlinsky, L., Gutta, V., Cascante-Bonilla, P., Kim, D., Arbelle, A., Panda, R., Feris, R., and Kira, Z
Smith, J. S., Karlinsky, L., Gutta, V., Cascante-Bonilla, P., Kim, D., Arbelle, A., Panda, R., Feris, R., and Kira, Z. Coda-prompt: Continual decomposed attention-based prompting for rehearsal-free continual learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Visio...
2023
-
[80]
Decoupling learning and remembering: A bilevel memory framework with knowledge projection for task-incremental learning
Sun, W., Li, Q., Zhang, J., Wang, W., and Geng, Y.-a. Decoupling learning and remembering: A bilevel memory framework with knowledge projection for task-incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 20186--20195, 2023
2023
-
[81]
Going Deeper With Convolutions
Szegedy, C., Liu, W., Jia, Y., Sermanet, P., Reed, S., Anguelov, D., Erhan, D., Vanhoucke, V., and Rabinovich, A. Going Deeper With Convolutions . pp.\ 1--9, 2015
2015
-
[82]
Gcr: Gradient coreset based replay buffer selection for continual learning
Tiwari, R., Killamsetty, K., Iyer, R., and Shenoy, P. Gcr: Gradient coreset based replay buffer selection for continual learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 99--108, 2022
2022
-
[83]
Trire: A multi-mechanism learning paradigm for continual knowledge retention and promotion
Vijayan, P., Bhat, P., Arani, E., and Zonooz, B. Trire: A multi-mechanism learning paradigm for continual knowledge retention and promotion. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.08217, 2023
2023 arXiv
-
[84]
A comprehensive survey of continual learning: Theory, method and application
Wang, L., Zhang, X., Su, H., and Zhu, J. A comprehensive survey of continual learning: Theory, method and application. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.00487, 2023
2023 arXiv
-
[85]
S-prompts learning with pre-trained transformers: An occam’s razor for domain incremental learning
Wang, Y., Huang, Z., and Hong, X. S-prompts learning with pre-trained transformers: An occam’s razor for domain incremental learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35: 0 5682--5695, 2022 a
2022
-
[86]
Sparcl: Sparse continual learning on the edge
Wang, Z., Zhan, Z., Gong, Y., Yuan, G., Niu, W., Jian, T., Ren, B., Ioannidis, S., Wang, Y., and Dy, J. Sparcl: Sparse continual learning on the edge. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35: 0 20366--20380, 2022 b
2022
-
[87]
Dualprompt: Complementary prompting for rehearsal-free continual learning
Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., Ebrahimi, S., Sun, R., Zhang, H., Lee, C.-Y., Ren, X., Su, G., Perot, V., Dy, J., et al. Dualprompt: Complementary prompting for rehearsal-free continual learning. In European Conference on Computer Vision, pp.\ 631--648. Springer, 2022 c
2022
-
[88]
Learning to prompt for continual learning
Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., Lee, C.-Y., Zhang, H., Sun, R., Ren, X., Su, G., Perot, V., Dy, J., and Pfister, T. Learning to prompt for continual learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp.\ 139--149, 2022 d
2022
-
[89]
Large scale incremental learning
Wu, Y., Chen, Y., Wang, L., Ye, Y., Liu, Z., Guo, Y., and Fu, Y. Large scale incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp.\ 374--382, 2019
2019
-
[90]
Yoon, J., Yang, E., Lee, J., and Hwang, S. J. Lifelong learning with dynamically expandable networks. In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018
2018
-
[91]
Semantic drift compensation for class-incremental learning
Yu, L., Twardowski, B., Liu, X., Herranz, L., Wang, K., Cheng, Y., Jui, S., and van de Weijer, J. Semantic drift compensation for class-incremental learning. In 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp.\ 6980--6989, 2020. doi:10.1109/CVPR4...
2020
-
[92]
B., Ravfogel, S., and Goldberg, Y
Zaken, E. B., Ravfogel, S., and Goldberg, Y. Bitfit: Simple parameter-efficient fine-tuning for transformer-based masked language-models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10199, 2021
2021
-
[93]
Continual learning through synaptic intelligence
Zenke, F., Poole, B., and Ganguli, S. Continual learning through synaptic intelligence. In International Conference on Machine Learning, pp.\ 3987--3995. PMLR, 2017
2017
-
[94]
Fine-grained knowledge selection and restoration for non-exemplar class incremental learning
Zhai, J.-T., Liu, X., Yu, L., and Cheng, M.-M. Fine-grained knowledge selection and restoration for non-exemplar class incremental learning. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, volume 38, pp.\ 6971--6978, 2024
2024
-
[95]
Maintaining discrimination and fairness in class incremental learning
Zhao, B., Xiao, X., Gan, G., Zhang, B., and Xia, S.-T. Maintaining discrimination and fairness in class incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pp.\ 13208--13217, 2020
2020
-
[96]
Expandable subspace ensemble for pre-trained model-based class-incremental learning
Zhou, D.-W., Sun, H.-L., Ye, H.-J., and Zhan, D.-C. Expandable subspace ensemble for pre-trained model-based class-incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 23554--23564, 2024
2024
-
[97]
Class-incremental learning via dual augmentation
Zhu, F., Cheng, Z., Zhang, X.-Y., and Liu, C.-l. Class-incremental learning via dual augmentation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34: 0 14306--14318, 2021 a
2021
-
[98]
Prototype augmentation and self-supervision for incremental learning
Zhu, F., Zhang, X.-Y., Wang, C., Yin, F., and Liu, C.-L. Prototype augmentation and self-supervision for incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 5871--5880, 2021 b
2021
-
[99]
Self-sustaining representation expansion for non-exemplar class-incremental learning
Zhu, K., Zhai, W., Cao, Y., Luo, J., and Zha, Z.-J. Self-sustaining representation expansion for non-exemplar class-incremental learning. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp.\ 9296--9305, 2022
2022
Reviewed August 7, 2026 · model on record in the stance chip above.
Discussion (0). Sign in to comment.