Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Networks for Continual Learning

Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Networks for Continual Learning

Chayut Wiwatcharakoses, Daniel Berrar

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Doctoral Consortium. Pages 6476-6477. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/927

Continual learning systems can adapt to new tasks, changes in data distributions, and new information that becomes incrementally available over time. The key challenge for such systems is how to mitigate catastrophic forgetting, i.e., how to prevent the loss of previously learned knowledge when new tasks need to be solved. In our research, we investigate self-organizing incremental neural networks (SOINN) for continual learning from both stationary and non-stationary data. We have developed a new algorithm, SOINN+, that learns to forget irrelevant nodes and edges and is robust to noise.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Online Learning
Machine Learning: Unsupervised Learning
Machine Learning: Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-task Learning
Machine Learning: Clustering