PromptFusion: Decoupling Stability and Plasticity for Continual Learning

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Main Authors: Chen, Haoran, Wu, Zuxuan, Han, Xintong, Jia, Menglin, Jiang, Yu-Gang
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author Chen, Haoran
Wu, Zuxuan
Han, Xintong
Jia, Menglin
Jiang, Yu-Gang
author_facet Chen, Haoran
Wu, Zuxuan
Han, Xintong
Jia, Menglin
Jiang, Yu-Gang
contents Current research on continual learning mainly focuses on relieving catastrophic forgetting, and most of their success is at the cost of limiting the performance of newly incoming tasks. Such a trade-off is referred to as the stability-plasticity dilemma and is a more general and challenging problem for continual learning. However, the inherent conflict between these two concepts makes it seemingly impossible to devise a satisfactory solution to both of them simultaneously. Therefore, we ask, "is it possible to divide them into two separate problems to conquer them independently?". To this end, we propose a prompt-tuning-based method termed PromptFusion to enable the decoupling of stability and plasticity. Specifically, PromptFusion consists of a carefully designed \stab module that deals with catastrophic forgetting and a \boo module to learn new knowledge concurrently. Furthermore, to address the computational overhead brought by the additional architecture, we propose PromptFusion-Lite which improves PromptFusion by dynamically determining whether to activate both modules for each input image. Extensive experiments show that both PromptFusion and PromptFusion-Lite achieve promising results on popular continual learning datasets for class-incremental and domain-incremental settings. Especially on Split-Imagenet-R, one of the most challenging datasets for class-incremental learning, our method can exceed state-of-the-art prompt-based methods by more than 5\% in accuracy, with PromptFusion-Lite using 14.8\% less computational resources than PromptFusion.
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Chen, Haoran
Wu, Zuxuan
Han, Xintong
Jia, Menglin
Jiang, Yu-Gang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current research on continual learning mainly focuses on relieving catastrophic forgetting, and most of their success is at the cost of limiting the performance of newly incoming tasks. Such a trade-off is referred to as the stability-plasticity dilemma and is a more general and challenging problem for continual learning. However, the inherent conflict between these two concepts makes it seemingly impossible to devise a satisfactory solution to both of them simultaneously. Therefore, we ask, "is it possible to divide them into two separate problems to conquer them independently?". To this end, we propose a prompt-tuning-based method termed PromptFusion to enable the decoupling of stability and plasticity. Specifically, PromptFusion consists of a carefully designed \stab module that deals with catastrophic forgetting and a \boo module to learn new knowledge concurrently. Furthermore, to address the computational overhead brought by the additional architecture, we propose PromptFusion-Lite which improves PromptFusion by dynamically determining whether to activate both modules for each input image. Extensive experiments show that both PromptFusion and PromptFusion-Lite achieve promising results on popular continual learning datasets for class-incremental and domain-incremental settings. Especially on Split-Imagenet-R, one of the most challenging datasets for class-incremental learning, our method can exceed state-of-the-art prompt-based methods by more than 5\% in accuracy, with PromptFusion-Lite using 14.8\% less computational resources than PromptFusion.
title PromptFusion: Decoupling Stability and Plasticity for Continual Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07223