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Learn the Time to Learn: Replay Scheduling in Continual Learning
Aalto University, Aalto University, Finnland.
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5750-9655
Microsoft Research.
2023 (English)In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research, E-ISSN 2835-8856, Vol. 2023-NovemberArticle in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Replay methods are known to be successful at mitigating catastrophic forgetting in continual learning scenarios despite having limited access to historical data. However, storing historical data is cheap in many real-world settings, yet replaying all historical data is often prohibited due to processing time constraints. In such settings, we propose that continual learning systems should learn the time to learn and schedule which tasks to replay at different time steps. We first demonstrate the benefits of our proposal by using Monte Carlo tree search to find a proper replay schedule, and show that the found replay schedules can outperform fixed scheduling policies when combined with various replay methods in different continual learning settings. Additionally, we propose a framework for learning replay scheduling policies with reinforcement learning. We show that the learned policies can gen-eralize better in new continual learning scenarios compared to equally replaying all seen tasks, without added computational cost. Our study reveals the importance of learning the time to learn in continual learning, which brings current research closer to real-world needs.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research , 2023. Vol. 2023-November
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-361775Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000627640OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-361775DiVA, id: diva2:1948042
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