Continual learning with neural activation importance

Sohee Kim, Seungkyu Lee

Abstract:

Continual learning is a concept of online learning along with multiple sequential tasks. One of the critical barriers of continual learning is that a network should learn a new task keeping the knowledge of old tasks without access to any data of the old tasks. In this paper, we propose a neuron importance based regularization method for stable continual learning.
We propose a comprehensive experimental evaluation framework on existing benchmark data sets to evaluate not just the accuracy of a certain order of continual learning performance also the robustness of the accuracy along with the changes in the order of tasks.

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