Scalable Recollections for Continual Lifelong Learning

Authors

  • Matthew Riemer IBM Research
  • Tim Klinger IBM Research
  • Djallel Bouneffouf IBM Research
  • Michele Franceschini IBM Research

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011352

Abstract

Given the recent success of Deep Learning applied to a variety of single tasks, it is natural to consider more human-realistic settings. Perhaps the most difficult of these settings is that of continual lifelong learning, where the model must learn online over a continuous stream of non-stationary data. A successful continual lifelong learning system must have three key capabilities: it must learn and adapt over time, it must not forget what it has learned, and it must be efficient in both training time and memory. Recent techniques have focused their efforts primarily on the first two capabilities while questions of efficiency remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we consider the problem of efficient and effective storage of experiences over very large time-frames. In particular we consider the case where typical experiences are O(n) bits and memories are limited to O(k) bits for k << n. We present a novel scalable architecture and training algorithm in this challenging domain and provide an extensive evaluation of its performance. Our results show that we can achieve considerable gains on top of state-of-the-art methods such as GEM. 1

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Riemer, M., Klinger, T., Bouneffouf, D., & Franceschini, M. (2019). Scalable Recollections for Continual Lifelong Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 1352-1359. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011352

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AAAI Technical Track: Cognitive Systems