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Main Authors: Li, Jiyong, Azizov, Dilshod, Li, Yang, Liang, Shangsong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04599
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author Li, Jiyong
Azizov, Dilshod
Li, Yang
Liang, Shangsong
author_facet Li, Jiyong
Azizov, Dilshod
Li, Yang
Liang, Shangsong
contents Recently, because of the high-quality representations of contrastive learning methods, rehearsal-based contrastive continual learning has been proposed to explore how to continually learn transferable representation embeddings to avoid the catastrophic forgetting issue in traditional continual settings. Based on this framework, we propose Contrastive Continual Learning via Importance Sampling (CCLIS) to preserve knowledge by recovering previous data distributions with a new strategy for Replay Buffer Selection (RBS), which minimize estimated variance to save hard negative samples for representation learning with high quality. Furthermore, we present the Prototype-instance Relation Distillation (PRD) loss, a technique designed to maintain the relationship between prototypes and sample representations using a self-distillation process. Experiments on standard continual learning benchmarks reveal that our method notably outperforms existing baselines in terms of knowledge preservation and thereby effectively counteracts catastrophic forgetting in online contexts. The code is available at https://github.com/lijy373/CCLIS.
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spellingShingle Contrastive Continual Learning with Importance Sampling and Prototype-Instance Relation Distillation
Li, Jiyong
Azizov, Dilshod
Li, Yang
Liang, Shangsong
Machine Learning
Recently, because of the high-quality representations of contrastive learning methods, rehearsal-based contrastive continual learning has been proposed to explore how to continually learn transferable representation embeddings to avoid the catastrophic forgetting issue in traditional continual settings. Based on this framework, we propose Contrastive Continual Learning via Importance Sampling (CCLIS) to preserve knowledge by recovering previous data distributions with a new strategy for Replay Buffer Selection (RBS), which minimize estimated variance to save hard negative samples for representation learning with high quality. Furthermore, we present the Prototype-instance Relation Distillation (PRD) loss, a technique designed to maintain the relationship between prototypes and sample representations using a self-distillation process. Experiments on standard continual learning benchmarks reveal that our method notably outperforms existing baselines in terms of knowledge preservation and thereby effectively counteracts catastrophic forgetting in online contexts. The code is available at https://github.com/lijy373/CCLIS.
title Contrastive Continual Learning with Importance Sampling and Prototype-Instance Relation Distillation
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04599