Summary of An Attention-based Representation Distillation Baseline For Multi-label Continual Learning, by Martin Menabue et al.
An Attention-based Representation Distillation Baseline for Multi-Label Continual Learning
by Martin Menabue, Emanuele Frascaroli, Matteo Boschini, Lorenzo Bonicelli, Angelo Porrello, Simone Calderara
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 proposes a novel approach to continual learning, focusing on the multi-label scenario which is more representative of real-world open problems. The authors show that existing state-of-the-art CL methods fail to achieve satisfactory performance, questioning the advancements claimed in recent years. They propose Selective Class Attention Distillation (SCAD), an approach that relies on knowledge transfer to align student and teacher network representations, preventing irrelevant information from harming the student’s performance during online training. The authors conduct experiments on two multi-label datasets, showing that SCAD outperforms current state-of-the-art CL methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers in artificial intelligence work on a way for machines to learn new things without forgetting what they already know. They’re trying to make it better by focusing on problems that are more like real-life situations. Right now, most of the research is about learning one thing at a time, but in real life, we often have to learn many things at once. The authors show that some methods aren’t working as well as they seem, and then they propose a new way called SCAD. This approach helps machines learn by focusing on what’s important and not getting confused by extra information. The authors tested this method on two different datasets and found it worked better than other approaches. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Continual learning * Distillation
