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Autori principali: Marasco, Isabella, Evangelista, Davide, Piccolomini, Elena Loli, Colajanni, Michele
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17548
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author Marasco, Isabella
Evangelista, Davide
Piccolomini, Elena Loli
Colajanni, Michele
author_facet Marasco, Isabella
Evangelista, Davide
Piccolomini, Elena Loli
Colajanni, Michele
contents Artificial intelligence systems predominantly rely on static data distributions, making them ineffective in dynamic real-world environments, such as cybersecurity, autonomous transportation, or finance, where data shifts frequently. Continual learning offers a potential solution by enabling models to learn from sequential data while retaining prior knowledge. However, a critical and underexplored issue in this domain is data normalization. Conventional normalization methods, such as min-max scaling, presuppose access to the entire dataset, which is incongruent with the sequential nature of continual learning. In this paper we introduce Continual Learning Adaptive Normalization (CLeAN), a novel adaptive normalization technique designed for continual learning in tabular data. CLeAN involves the estimation of global feature scales using learnable parameters that are updated via an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) module, enabling the model to adapt to evolving data distributions. Through comprehensive evaluations on two datasets and various continual learning strategies, including Resevoir Experience Replay, A-GEM, and EwC we demonstrate that CLeAN not only improves model performance on new data but also mitigates catastrophic forgetting. The findings underscore the importance of adaptive normalization in enhancing the stability and effectiveness of tabular data, offering a novel perspective on the use of normalization to preserve knowledge in dynamic learning environments.
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spellingShingle CLeAN: Continual Learning Adaptive Normalization in Dynamic Environments
Marasco, Isabella
Evangelista, Davide
Piccolomini, Elena Loli
Colajanni, Michele
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence systems predominantly rely on static data distributions, making them ineffective in dynamic real-world environments, such as cybersecurity, autonomous transportation, or finance, where data shifts frequently. Continual learning offers a potential solution by enabling models to learn from sequential data while retaining prior knowledge. However, a critical and underexplored issue in this domain is data normalization. Conventional normalization methods, such as min-max scaling, presuppose access to the entire dataset, which is incongruent with the sequential nature of continual learning. In this paper we introduce Continual Learning Adaptive Normalization (CLeAN), a novel adaptive normalization technique designed for continual learning in tabular data. CLeAN involves the estimation of global feature scales using learnable parameters that are updated via an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) module, enabling the model to adapt to evolving data distributions. Through comprehensive evaluations on two datasets and various continual learning strategies, including Resevoir Experience Replay, A-GEM, and EwC we demonstrate that CLeAN not only improves model performance on new data but also mitigates catastrophic forgetting. The findings underscore the importance of adaptive normalization in enhancing the stability and effectiveness of tabular data, offering a novel perspective on the use of normalization to preserve knowledge in dynamic learning environments.
title CLeAN: Continual Learning Adaptive Normalization in Dynamic Environments
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17548