Poster
Online Continual Learning with Maximal Interfered Retrieval
Rahaf Aljundi · Eugene Belilovsky · Tinne Tuytelaars · Laurent Charlin · Massimo Caccia · Min Lin · Lucas Page-Caccia

Thu Dec 12th 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM @ East Exhibition Hall B + C #59
in Algorithms -- Multitask and Transfer Learning »

Continual learning, the setting where a learning agent is faced with a never-ending stream of data, continues to be a great challenge for modern machine learning systems. In particular the online or "single-pass through the data" setting has gained attention recently as a natural setting that is difficult to tackle. Methods based on replay, either generative or from a stored memory, have been shown to be effective approaches for continual learning, matching or exceeding the state of the art in a number of standard benchmarks. These approaches typically rely on randomly selecting samples from the replay memory or from a generative model, which is suboptimal. In this work, we consider a controlled sampling of memories for replay. We retrieve the samples which are most interfered, i.e. whose prediction will be most negatively impacted by the foreseen parameters update. We show a formulation for this sampling criterion in both the generative replay and the experience replay setting, producing consistent gains in performance and greatly reduced forgetting. We release an implementation of our method at https://github.com/optimass/MaximallyInterferedRetrieval

Keywords: Deep Learning · Algorithms -> Multitask and Transfer Learning; Algorithms -> Online Learning

Author Information

Rahaf Aljundi (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Eugene Belilovsky (Mila, University of Montreal)
Tinne Tuytelaars (KU Leuven)
Laurent Charlin (MILA / U.Montreal)
Massimo Caccia (MILA)
Min Lin (MILA)
Lucas Page-Caccia (McGill University)

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