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| author | Yang, Muqiao Li, Xiang Cappellazzo, Umberto Watanabe, Shinji Raj, Bhiksha |
| author_facet | Yang, Muqiao Li, Xiang Cappellazzo, Umberto Watanabe, Shinji Raj, Bhiksha |
| contents | Continual learning has emerged as an increasingly important challenge across various tasks, including Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In SLU, its objective is to effectively handle the emergence of new concepts and evolving environments. The evaluation of continual learning algorithms typically involves assessing the model's stability, plasticity, and generalizability as fundamental aspects of standards. However, existing continual learning metrics primarily focus on only one or two of the properties. They neglect the overall performance across all tasks, and do not adequately disentangle the plasticity versus stability/generalizability trade-offs within the model. In this work, we propose an evaluation methodology that provides a unified evaluation on stability, plasticity, and generalizability in continual learning. By employing the proposed metric, we demonstrate how introducing various knowledge distillations can improve different aspects of these three properties of the SLU model. We further show that our proposed metric is more sensitive in capturing the impact of task ordering in continual learning, making it better suited for practical use-case scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | Evaluating and Improving Continual Learning in Spoken Language Understanding Yang, Muqiao Li, Xiang Cappellazzo, Umberto Watanabe, Shinji Raj, Bhiksha Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Sound Audio and Speech Processing Continual learning has emerged as an increasingly important challenge across various tasks, including Spoken Language Understanding (SLU). In SLU, its objective is to effectively handle the emergence of new concepts and evolving environments. The evaluation of continual learning algorithms typically involves assessing the model's stability, plasticity, and generalizability as fundamental aspects of standards. However, existing continual learning metrics primarily focus on only one or two of the properties. They neglect the overall performance across all tasks, and do not adequately disentangle the plasticity versus stability/generalizability trade-offs within the model. In this work, we propose an evaluation methodology that provides a unified evaluation on stability, plasticity, and generalizability in continual learning. By employing the proposed metric, we demonstrate how introducing various knowledge distillations can improve different aspects of these three properties of the SLU model. We further show that our proposed metric is more sensitive in capturing the impact of task ordering in continual learning, making it better suited for practical use-case scenarios. |
| title | Evaluating and Improving Continual Learning in Spoken Language Understanding |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Sound Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10427 |