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Efficient continual learning in neural networks with embedding regularization

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Jary Pomponi
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Simone Scardapane *
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Vincenzo Lomonaco
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Aurelio Uncini
DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2020.01.093delete
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Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered either the progressive increase in the size of the networks, or have tried to regularize the network behavior to equalize it with respect to previously observed tasks. In the latter case, it is essential to understand what type of information best represents this past behavior. Common techniques include regularizing the past outputs, gradients, or individual weights. In this work, we propose a new, relatively simple and efficient method to perform continual learning by regularizing instead the network internal embeddings. To make the approach scalable, we also propose a dynamic sampling strategy to reduce the memory footprint of the required external storage. We show that our method performs favorably with respect to state-of-the-art approaches in the literature, while requiring significantly less space in memory and computational time. In addition, inspired by to recent works, we evaluate the impact of selecting a more flexible model for the activation functions inside the network, evaluating the impact of catastrophic forgetting on the activation functions themselves. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
Continual learning
Catastrophic forgetting
Embedding
Regularization
Trainable activation functions
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Neurocomputing
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University of Bologna
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sapienza university rome
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