GRASP: A Rehearsal Policy for Efficient Online Continual Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Harun, Md Yousuf, Gallardo, Jhair, Chen, Junyu, Kanan, Christopher
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author Harun, Md Yousuf
Gallardo, Jhair
Chen, Junyu
Kanan, Christopher
author_facet Harun, Md Yousuf
Gallardo, Jhair
Chen, Junyu
Kanan, Christopher
contents Continual learning (CL) in deep neural networks (DNNs) involves incrementally accumulating knowledge in a DNN from a growing data stream. A major challenge in CL is that non-stationary data streams cause catastrophic forgetting of previously learned abilities. A popular solution is rehearsal: storing past observations in a buffer and then sampling the buffer to update the DNN. Uniform sampling in a class-balanced manner is highly effective, and better sample selection policies have been elusive. Here, we propose a new sample selection policy called GRASP that selects the most prototypical (easy) samples first and then gradually selects less prototypical (harder) examples. GRASP has little additional compute or memory overhead compared to uniform selection, enabling it to scale to large datasets. Compared to 17 other rehearsal policies, GRASP achieves higher accuracy in CL experiments on ImageNet. Compared to uniform balanced sampling, GRASP achieves the same performance with 40% fewer updates. We also show that GRASP is effective for CL on five text classification datasets.
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spellingShingle GRASP: A Rehearsal Policy for Efficient Online Continual Learning
Harun, Md Yousuf
Gallardo, Jhair
Chen, Junyu
Kanan, Christopher
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Continual learning (CL) in deep neural networks (DNNs) involves incrementally accumulating knowledge in a DNN from a growing data stream. A major challenge in CL is that non-stationary data streams cause catastrophic forgetting of previously learned abilities. A popular solution is rehearsal: storing past observations in a buffer and then sampling the buffer to update the DNN. Uniform sampling in a class-balanced manner is highly effective, and better sample selection policies have been elusive. Here, we propose a new sample selection policy called GRASP that selects the most prototypical (easy) samples first and then gradually selects less prototypical (harder) examples. GRASP has little additional compute or memory overhead compared to uniform selection, enabling it to scale to large datasets. Compared to 17 other rehearsal policies, GRASP achieves higher accuracy in CL experiments on ImageNet. Compared to uniform balanced sampling, GRASP achieves the same performance with 40% fewer updates. We also show that GRASP is effective for CL on five text classification datasets.
title GRASP: A Rehearsal Policy for Efficient Online Continual Learning
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13646