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20142026
most citedOvercoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks

7.8k citations · 10.3k across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CL2026

TLPO: Token-Level Policy Optimization for Mitigating Language Confusion in Large Language Models

Jinho Choo, JunSeung Lee, Jimyeong Kim +3

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong multilingual capabilities, yet often fail to consistently generate responses in the intended language, exhibiting a phenomenon known…

cs.AI2022★ 1 cited

Explainability Via Causal Self-Talk

Nicholas A. Roy, Junkyung Kim, Neil Rabinowitz

Explaining the behavior of AI systems is an important problem that, in practice, is generally avoided. While the XAI community has been developing an abundance of techniques, most…

cs.LG2022★ 16 cited

Semantic Exploration from Language Abstractions and Pretrained Representations

Allison C. Tam, Neil C. Rabinowitz, Andrew K. Lampinen +6

Effective exploration is a challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). Novelty-based exploration methods can suffer in high-dimensional state spaces, such as continuous partially-obs…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Tell me why! Explanations support learning relational and causal structure

Andrew K. Lampinen, Nicholas A. Roy, Ishita Dasgupta +8

Inferring the abstract relational and causal structure of the world is a major challenge for reinforcement-learning (RL) agents. For humans, language--particularly in the form of e…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Alchemy: A benchmark and analysis toolkit for meta-reinforcement learning agents

Jane X. Wang, Michael King, Nicolas Porcel +14

There has been rapidly growing interest in meta-learning as a method for increasing the flexibility and sample efficiency of reinforcement learning. One problem in this area of res…

cs.MA2020

Should I tear down this wall? Optimizing social metrics by evaluating novel actions

János Kramár, Neil Rabinowitz, Tom Eccles +1

One of the fundamental challenges of governance is deciding when and how to intervene in multi-agent systems in order to impact group-wide metrics of success. This is particularly…

cs.LG2019★ 53 cited

Making Efficient Use of Demonstrations to Solve Hard Exploration Problems

Tom Le Paine, Caglar Gulcehre, Bobak Shahriari +11

This paper introduces R2D3, an agent that makes efficient use of demonstrations to solve hard exploration problems in partially observable environments with highly variable initial…

cs.LG2019★ 8 cited

Meta-learners' learning dynamics are unlike learners'

Neil C. Rabinowitz

Meta-learning is a tool that allows us to build sample-efficient learning systems. Here we show that, once meta-trained, LSTM Meta-Learners aren't just faster learners than their s…

cs.LG2019★ 34 cited

Meta-learning of Sequential Strategies

Pedro A. Ortega, Jane X. Wang, Mark Rowland +21

In this report we review memory-based meta-learning as a tool for building sample-efficient strategies that learn from past experience to adapt to any task within a target class. O…

cs.LG2018★ 51 cited

Relational Forward Models for Multi-Agent Learning

Andrea Tacchetti, H. Francis Song, Pedro A. M. Mediano +5

The behavioral dynamics of multi-agent systems have a rich and orderly structure, which can be leveraged to understand these systems, and to improve how artificial agents learn to…

cs.LG2018★ 693 cited

Human-level performance in first-person multiplayer games with population-based deep reinforcement learning

Max Jaderberg, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, Iain Dunning +15

Recent progress in artificial intelligence through reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great success on increasingly complex single-agent environments and two-player turn-based g…

cs.CV2018★ 16 cited

Pooling is neither necessary nor sufficient for appropriate deformation stability in CNNs

Avraham Ruderman, Neil C. Rabinowitz, Ari S. Morcos +1

Many of our core assumptions about how neural networks operate remain empirically untested. One common assumption is that convolutional neural networks need to be stable to small t…

cs.AI2018★ 66 cited

Machine Theory of Mind

Neil C. Rabinowitz, Frank Perbet, H. Francis Song +3

Theory of mind (ToM; Premack & Woodruff, 1978) broadly refers to humans' ability to represent the mental states of others, including their desires, beliefs, and intentions. We prop…

stat.ML2018★ 234 cited

On the importance of single directions for generalization

Ari S. Morcos, David G. T. Barrett, Neil C. Rabinowitz +1

Despite their ability to memorize large datasets, deep neural networks often achieve good generalization performance. However, the differences between the learned solutions of netw…

cs.AI2017★ 5 cited

Building Machines that Learn and Think for Themselves: Commentary on Lake et al., Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2017

M. Botvinick, D. G. T. Barrett, P. Battaglia +16

We agree with Lake and colleagues on their list of key ingredients for building humanlike intelligence, including the idea that model-based reasoning is essential. However, we favo…

cs.LG2017★ 7.8k cited

Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks

James Kirkpatrick, Razvan Pascanu, Neil Rabinowitz +11

The ability to learn tasks in a sequential fashion is crucial to the development of artificial intelligence. Neural networks are not, in general, capable of this and it has been wi…

cs.LG2016★ 150 cited

The Predictron: End-To-End Learning and Planning

David Silver, Hado van Hasselt, Matteo Hessel +8

One of the key challenges of artificial intelligence is to learn models that are effective in the context of planning. In this document we introduce the predictron architecture. Th…

cs.LG2016★ 1.1k cited

Progressive Neural Networks

Andrei A. Rusu, Neil C. Rabinowitz, Guillaume Desjardins +5

Learning to solve complex sequences of tasks--while both leveraging transfer and avoiding catastrophic forgetting--remains a key obstacle to achieving human-level intelligence. The…

cs.AI2016

Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People

Brenden M. Lake, Tomer D. Ullman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum +1

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has renewed interest in building systems that learn and think like people. Many advances have come from using deep neural networks t…

q-bio.NC2015★ 3 cited

A model of sensory neural responses in the presence of unknown modulatory inputs

Neil C. Rabinowitz, Robbe L. T. Goris, Johannes Ballé +1

Neural responses are highly variable, and some portion of this variability arises from fluctuations in modulatory factors that alter their gain, such as adaptation, attention, arou…

cs.CV2014★ 7 cited

The local low-dimensionality of natural images

Olivier J. Hénaff, Johannes Ballé, Neil C. Rabinowitz +1

We develop a new statistical model for photographic images, in which the local responses of a bank of linear filters are described as jointly Gaussian, with zero mean and a covaria…