Summary of Mitigating Interference in the Knowledge Continuum Through Attention-guided Incremental Learning, by Prashant Bhat et al.
Mitigating Interference in the Knowledge Continuum through Attention-Guided Incremental Learning
by Prashant Bhat, Bharath Renjith, Elahe Arani, Bahram Zonooz
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed `Attention-Guided Incremental Learning’ (AGILE) is a novel approach for continual learning (CL) in deep neural networks. CL remains a significant challenge as it is prone to forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Several approaches have been proposed, such as experience rehearsal, regularization, and parameter isolation, but class-incremental learning remains highly challenging due to inter-task class separation. AGILE incorporates compact task attention to reduce interference between tasks, utilizing lightweight learnable task projection vectors to transform latent representations toward task distribution. Extensive empirical evaluation shows that AGILE significantly improves generalization performance by mitigating task interference and outperforming rehearsal-based approaches in several CL scenarios. It can scale well to a large number of tasks with minimal overhead while remaining well-calibrated with reduced task-recency bias. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary AGILE is a new way for computers to learn from experience without forgetting what they already know. Right now, deep neural networks are good at learning but bad at remembering things they learned earlier. Some researchers have tried to solve this problem by using techniques like rehearsal or regularization, but it’s still hard to make progress when you’re learning about lots of different tasks. The AGILE approach is designed to help with this problem by focusing on the most important information from each task and reducing confusion between tasks. This helps the computer learn more efficiently and remember what it learned earlier. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Continual learning » Generalization » Regularization
