Summary of Class Incremental Learning with Probability Dampening and Cascaded Gated Classifier, by Jary Pomponi et al.
Class incremental learning with probability dampening and cascaded gated classifier
by Jary Pomponi, Alessio Devoto, Simone Scardapane
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 This paper proposes a novel regularization approach and incremental classifier to mitigate forgetting in neural networks during continual learning. The proposed methods, Margin Dampening and Cascaded Scaling Classifier, aim to preserve past learned knowledge while allowing the model to learn new patterns effectively. The approach combines soft constraints and knowledge distillation to prevent overfitting on saved samples. Empirical results show that the proposed method outperforms well-established baselines on multiple benchmarks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps computers learn new things without forgetting what they already know. It’s like how humans can remember old skills when learning new ones! The problem is, computers have trouble remembering past tasks when learning new ones. To fix this, the researchers came up with two new ideas: Margin Dampening and Cascaded Scaling Classifier. These ideas help computers keep their old knowledge while still learning new things. The results show that these methods work really well on lots of different tests. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Continual learning * Knowledge distillation * Overfitting * Regularization
