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Main Authors: Batra, Hunar, Clark, Ronald
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15972
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author Batra, Hunar
Clark, Ronald
author_facet Batra, Hunar
Clark, Ronald
contents Continual learning aims to allow models to learn new tasks without forgetting what has been learned before. This work introduces Elastic Variational Continual Learning with Weight Consolidation (EVCL), a novel hybrid model that integrates the variational posterior approximation mechanism of Variational Continual Learning (VCL) with the regularization-based parameter-protection strategy of Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC). By combining the strengths of both methods, EVCL effectively mitigates catastrophic forgetting and enables better capture of dependencies between model parameters and task-specific data. Evaluated on five discriminative tasks, EVCL consistently outperforms existing baselines in both domain-incremental and task-incremental learning scenarios for deep discriminative models.
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spellingShingle EVCL: Elastic Variational Continual Learning with Weight Consolidation
Batra, Hunar
Clark, Ronald
Machine Learning
Continual learning aims to allow models to learn new tasks without forgetting what has been learned before. This work introduces Elastic Variational Continual Learning with Weight Consolidation (EVCL), a novel hybrid model that integrates the variational posterior approximation mechanism of Variational Continual Learning (VCL) with the regularization-based parameter-protection strategy of Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC). By combining the strengths of both methods, EVCL effectively mitigates catastrophic forgetting and enables better capture of dependencies between model parameters and task-specific data. Evaluated on five discriminative tasks, EVCL consistently outperforms existing baselines in both domain-incremental and task-incremental learning scenarios for deep discriminative models.
title EVCL: Elastic Variational Continual Learning with Weight Consolidation
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15972