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most citedContinual Learning for Recurrent Neural Networks: an Empirical Evaluation

125 citations · 221 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

cs.LG2026

How to Find and Reuse Policies for Continuous Adaptation in Lifelong Reinforcement Learning

Saptarshi Nath, Inish M. D'Souza, Antonio Carta +2

In lifelong reinforcement learning, retaining previously learned policies is not sufficient for effective transfer to a new task. Useful knowledge may be distributed across several…

cs.LG2026

Z-PEFT: Zero-shot Backdoor Detection in Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning via Canonical Spectral Signatures

Nicola Pitzalis, Donald Shenaj, Giacomo Cignoni +3

Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuned (PEFT) models are frequently downloaded from open repositories by practitioners. This widespread practice creates a significant attack surface, as ma…

cs.LG2026

Position: Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning Agents

Vaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov +21

Foundation models have transformed machine learning through large-scale pretraining and increased test-time compute. Despite surpassing human performance in several domains, these…

cs.LG2025

CLA: Latent Alignment for Online Continual Self-Supervised Learning

Giacomo Cignoni, Andrea Cossu, Alexandra Gomez-Villa +2

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is able to build latent representations that generalize well to unseen data. However, only a few SSL techniques exist for the online CL setting, wher…

cs.LG2025

Continual Learning Should Move Beyond Incremental Classification

Rupert Mitchell, Antonio Alliegro, Raffaello Camoriano +17

Continual learning (CL) is the sub-field of machine learning concerned with accumulating knowledge in dynamic environments. So far, CL research has mainly focused on incremental cl…

cs.LG2025

Replay-free Online Continual Learning with Self-Supervised MultiPatches

Giacomo Cignoni, Andrea Cossu, Alex Gomez-Villa +2

Online Continual Learning (OCL) methods train a model on a non-stationary data stream where only a few examples are available at a time, often leveraging replay strategies. However…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

A Comprehensive Empirical Evaluation on Online Continual Learning

Albin Soutif--Cormerais, Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu +4

Online continual learning aims to get closer to a live learning experience by learning directly on a stream of data with temporally shifting distribution and by storing a minimum a…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Improving Online Continual Learning Performance and Stability with Temporal Ensembles

Albin Soutif--Cormerais, Antonio Carta, Joost Van de Weijer

Neural networks are very effective when trained on large datasets for a large number of iterations. However, when they are trained on non-stationary streams of data and in an onlin…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Projected Latent Distillation for Data-Agnostic Consolidation in Distributed Continual Learning

Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo Lomonaco +2

Distributed learning on the edge often comprises self-centered devices (SCD) which learn local tasks independently and are unwilling to contribute to the performance of other SDCs.…

cs.LG2023★ 12 cited

Avalanche: A PyTorch Library for Deep Continual Learning

Antonio Carta, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Cossu +2

Continual learning is the problem of learning from a nonstationary stream of data, a fundamental issue for sustainable and efficient training of deep neural networks over time. Unf…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Class-Incremental Learning with Repetition

Hamed Hemati, Andrea Cossu, Antonio Carta +5

Real-world data streams naturally include the repetition of previous concepts. From a Continual Learning (CL) perspective, repetition is a property of the environment and, unlike r…

cs.CV2022★ 7 cited

3rd Continual Learning Workshop Challenge on Egocentric Category and Instance Level Object Understanding

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Chenchen Zhu, Fanyi Xiao +7

Continual Learning, also known as Lifelong or Incremental Learning, has recently gained renewed interest among the Artificial Intelligence research community. Recent research effor…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Sample Condensation in Online Continual Learning

Mattia Sangermano, Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu +1

Online Continual learning is a challenging learning scenario where the model must learn from a non-stationary stream of data where each sample is seen only once. The main challenge…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Continual Pre-Training Mitigates Forgetting in Language and Vision

Andrea Cossu, Tinne Tuytelaars, Antonio Carta +3

Pre-trained models are nowadays a fundamental component of machine learning research. In continual learning, they are commonly used to initialize the model before training on the s…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Avalanche RL: a Continual Reinforcement Learning Library

Nicolò Lucchesi, Antonio Carta, Vincenzo Lomonaco +1

Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) is a challenging setting where an agent learns to interact with an environment that is constantly changing over time (the stream of experienc…

cs.LG2022★ 19 cited

Practical Recommendations for Replay-based Continual Learning Methods

Gabriele Merlin, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Andrea Cossu +2

Continual Learning requires the model to learn from a stream of dynamic, non-stationary data without forgetting previous knowledge. Several approaches have been developed in the li…

cs.AI2022★ 5 cited

AI-as-a-Service Toolkit for Human-Centered Intelligence in Autonomous Driving

Valerio De Caro, Saira Bano, Achilles Machumilane +11

This paper presents a proof-of-concept implementation of the AI-as-a-Service toolkit developed within the H2020 TEACHING project and designed to implement an autonomous driving per…

cs.LG2021

Ex-Model: Continual Learning from a Stream of Trained Models

Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo Lomonaco +1

Learning continually from non-stationary data streams is a challenging research topic of growing popularity in the last few years. Being able to learn, adapt, and generalize contin…

cs.LG2021

Is Class-Incremental Enough for Continual Learning?

Andrea Cossu, Gabriele Graffieti, Lorenzo Pellegrini +4

The ability of a model to learn continually can be empirically assessed in different continual learning scenarios. Each scenario defines the constraints and the opportunities of th…

cs.AI2021

TEACHING -- Trustworthy autonomous cyber-physical applications through human-centred intelligence

Davide Bacciu, Siranush Akarmazyan, Eric Armengaud +32

This paper discusses the perspective of the H2020 TEACHING project on the next generation of autonomous applications running in a distributed and highly heterogeneous environment c…

cs.LG2021

Continual Learning with Echo State Networks

Andrea Cossu, Davide Bacciu, Antonio Carta +2

Continual Learning (CL) refers to a learning setup where data is non stationary and the model has to learn without forgetting existing knowledge. The study of CL for sequential pat…

cs.LG2021

Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual Learning

Vincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Cossu +25

Learning continually from non-stationary data streams is a long-standing goal and a challenging problem in machine learning. Recently, we have witnessed a renewed and fast-growing…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Catastrophic Forgetting in Deep Graph Networks: an Introductory Benchmark for Graph Classification

Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu, Federico Errica +1

In this work, we study the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting in the graph representation learning scenario. The primary objective of the analysis is to understand whether class…

cs.LG2021

Distilled Replay: Overcoming Forgetting through Synthetic Samples

Andrea Rosasco, Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu +2

Replay strategies are Continual Learning techniques which mitigate catastrophic forgetting by keeping a buffer of patterns from previous experiences, which are interleaved with new…