Reinforced continual learning

Xu, Ju and Zhu, Zhanxing (2018) Reinforced continual learning. 32nd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Canada. 02 - 08 Dec 2018. pp. 899-908 .

Abstract

Most artificial intelligence models are limited in their ability to solve new tasks faster, without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. The recently emerging paradigm of continual learning aims to solve this issue, in which the model learns various tasks in a sequential fashion. In this work, a novel approach for continual learning is proposed, which searches for the best neural architecture for each coming task via sophisticatedly designed reinforcement learning strategies. We name it as Reinforced Continual Learning. Our method not only has good performance on preventing catastrophic forgetting but also fits new tasks well. The experiments on sequential classification tasks for variants of MNIST and CIFAR-100 datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms existing continual learning alternatives for deep networks.

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