UCL-MHTR: A unified continual learning system for multilingual handwritten text recognition

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Marwa Dhiaf, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Yousri Kessentini, Alicia Fornés, Ahmed Cheikh Rouhou

Published: 01 Jan 2025, Last Modified: 06 Nov 2025Expert Syst. Appl. 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•Introduce a unified continual learning framework for multilingual handwritten text recognition.•Apply continual learning in two stages: self-supervised pretraining and fine-tuning.•Achieve state-of-the-art performance across English, Italian, and Russian handwriting recognition tasks using a single unified model.•Pioneer the first application of continual learning to a multilingual, single-model handwritten text recognition system.