Summary of Core: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning Through Cognitive Replay, by Jianshu Zhang et al.
CORE: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning through Cognitive Replay
by Jianshu Zhang, Yankai Fu, Ziheng Peng, Dongyu Yao, Kun He
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel approach called COgnitive REplay (CORE) to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in continuous learning. CORE draws inspiration from human cognitive review processes and includes two key strategies: Adaptive Quantity Allocation and Quality-Focused Data Selection. The method adaptively allocates the replay buffer for each task based on its forgetting rate and selects representative data that best encapsulates the characteristics of each task within the buffer. The paper achieves an average accuracy of 37.95% on split-CIFAR10, surpassing the best baseline method by 6.52%. Additionally, it enhances the accuracy of the poorest-performing task by 6.30% compared to the top baseline. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps machines remember things they learned in the past while still learning new things. It’s like when you’re trying to learn a new language and you want to hold onto what you already know, but you also need to learn new words and grammar rules. The researchers created a new way called CORE that makes it easier for machines to do this by giving them more control over the information they replay in their memory. It works really well, especially when the machine is trying to remember things it’s not very good at. |
