Summary of Exemplar-condensed Federated Class-incremental Learning, by Rui Sun et al.
Exemplar-condensed Federated Class-incremental Learning
by Rui Sun, Yumin Zhang, Varun Ojha, Tejal Shah, Haoran Duan, Bo Wei, Rajiv Ranjan
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Dec 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 This paper proposes a novel approach to federated continual learning (FCL) called Exemplar-Condensed federated class-incremental learning (ECoral). ECoral distills the training characteristics of real images from streaming data into informative rehearsal exemplars, which can be used to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. The proposed method eliminates the limitations of exemplar selection in replay-based approaches and maintains consistency with past tasks. Additionally, it reduces information-level heterogeneity through inter-client sharing of a disentanglement generative model. Experimental results show that ECoral outperforms several state-of-the-art methods and can be integrated seamlessly with existing approaches. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us learn more effectively by using fake versions of old images to train machines. The approach is called Exemplar-Condensed federated class-incremental learning (ECoral). It’s a way to stop machines from forgetting what they learned before, and it works well even when the new data is very different from the old data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Continual learning * Generative model
