Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Sorrenti, Amelia, Bellitto, Giovanni, Salanitri, Federica Proietto, Pennisi, Matteo, Palazzo, Simone, Spampinato, Concetto
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author Sorrenti, Amelia
Bellitto, Giovanni
Salanitri, Federica Proietto
Pennisi, Matteo
Palazzo, Simone
Spampinato, Concetto
author_facet Sorrenti, Amelia
Bellitto, Giovanni
Salanitri, Federica Proietto
Pennisi, Matteo
Palazzo, Simone
Spampinato, Concetto
contents We propose Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning (WSCL), a learning strategy leveraging Complementary Learning System theory and the wake-sleep phases of the human brain to improve the performance of deep neural networks for visual classification tasks in continual learning settings. Our method learns continually via the synchronization between distinct wake and sleep phases. During the wake phase, the model is exposed to sensory input and adapts its representations, ensuring stability through a dynamic parameter freezing mechanism and storing episodic memories in a short-term temporary memory (similarly to what happens in the hippocampus). During the sleep phase, the training process is split into NREM and REM stages. In the NREM stage, the model's synaptic weights are consolidated using replayed samples from the short-term and long-term memory and the synaptic plasticity mechanism is activated, strengthening important connections and weakening unimportant ones. In the REM stage, the model is exposed to previously-unseen realistic visual sensory experience, and the dreaming process is activated, which enables the model to explore the potential feature space, thus preparing synapses to future knowledge. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach on three benchmark datasets: CIFAR-10, Tiny-ImageNet and FG-ImageNet. In all cases, our method outperforms the baselines and prior work, yielding a significant performance gain on continual visual classification tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate the usefulness of all processing stages and the importance of dreaming to enable positive forward transfer.
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spellingShingle Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning
Sorrenti, Amelia
Bellitto, Giovanni
Salanitri, Federica Proietto
Pennisi, Matteo
Palazzo, Simone
Spampinato, Concetto
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
We propose Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning (WSCL), a learning strategy leveraging Complementary Learning System theory and the wake-sleep phases of the human brain to improve the performance of deep neural networks for visual classification tasks in continual learning settings. Our method learns continually via the synchronization between distinct wake and sleep phases. During the wake phase, the model is exposed to sensory input and adapts its representations, ensuring stability through a dynamic parameter freezing mechanism and storing episodic memories in a short-term temporary memory (similarly to what happens in the hippocampus). During the sleep phase, the training process is split into NREM and REM stages. In the NREM stage, the model's synaptic weights are consolidated using replayed samples from the short-term and long-term memory and the synaptic plasticity mechanism is activated, strengthening important connections and weakening unimportant ones. In the REM stage, the model is exposed to previously-unseen realistic visual sensory experience, and the dreaming process is activated, which enables the model to explore the potential feature space, thus preparing synapses to future knowledge. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach on three benchmark datasets: CIFAR-10, Tiny-ImageNet and FG-ImageNet. In all cases, our method outperforms the baselines and prior work, yielding a significant performance gain on continual visual classification tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate the usefulness of all processing stages and the importance of dreaming to enable positive forward transfer.
title Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning
topic Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08623