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Encoder Based Lifelong Learning

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Rannen, Amal, Aljundi, Rahaf, Blaschko, Matthew B., Tuytelaars, Tinne·2017·2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

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This paper introduces a new lifelong learning solution where a single model is trained for a sequence of tasks. The main challenge that vision systems face in this context is catastrophic forgetting: as they tend to adapt to the most recently seen task, they lose performance on the tasks that were learned previously. Our method aims at preserving the knowledge of the previous tasks while learning a new one by using autoencoders. For each task, an under-complete autoencoder is learned, capturing the features that are crucial for its achievement. When a new task is presented to the system, we prevent the reconstructions of the features with these autoencoders from changing, which has the effect of preserving the information on which the previous tasks are mainly relying. At the same time, the features are given space to adjust to the most recent environment as only their projection into a low dimension submanifold is controlled. The proposed system is evaluated on image classification tasks and shows a reduction of forgetting over the state-ofthe-art.

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Authors
Rannen, A., Aljundi, R., Blaschko, M. B., & Tuytelaars, T.
Affiliations
IMEC (BE)
Venue
2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-10
Pages
1329-1337
OpenAlex
W2605911906
Cited by
324
References
23
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 53 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 41 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 1
FWCI
10.85
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Lirias (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
  • KU Leuven (FP7-MC-CIG 334380)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Keywords
lifelong learning, catastrophic forgetting, autoencoder, feature preservation, image classification, vision system

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