Summary of Continual Learning Of Numerous Tasks From Long-tail Distributions, by Liwei Kang et al.
Continual Learning of Numerous Tasks from Long-tail Distributions
by Liwei Kang, Wee Sun Lee
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 investigates the performance of continual learning algorithms in real-world scenarios where tasks vary greatly in size. Existing algorithms are designed for uniform task sizes, but this paper addresses the challenge of handling large numbers of tasks with varying sizes. The authors design synthetic and real-world datasets to test existing algorithms and propose a method that reuses optimizer states (such as Adam’s second moments) to improve continual learning performance. This approach reduces forgetting and outperforms existing algorithms in long-tail task sequences. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how artificial intelligence models can learn new things while remembering what they already know. Right now, most AI models are designed for a small number of tasks that are all similar in size. But real-life learning involves many different-sized tasks! This paper tries to solve this problem by creating special datasets and studying a hidden factor called “optimizer states” that helps AI models remember what they learned before. The result is a new way to make AI models learn better while using the same amount of computer power or memory. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Continual learning
