DLCFT: Deep Linear Continual Fine-Tuning for General Incremental Learning

By Hyounguk Shon, Janghyeon Lee, Seungwook Kim, Junmo Kim. 2022

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Pre-trained representation is one of the key elements in the success of modern deep learning. However, existing works on continual learning methods have mostly focused on learning models incrementally from scratch. In this paper, we explore an alternative framework to incremental learning where we continually fine-tune the model from a pre-trained representation. Our method takes advantage of linearization technique of a pre-trained neural network for simple and effective continual learning. We show that this allows us to design a linear model where quadratic parameter regularization method is placed as the optimal continual learning policy, and at the same time enjoying the high performance of neural networks. We also show that the proposed algorithm enables parameter regularization methods to be applied to class-incremental problems. Additionally, we provide a theoretical reason why the existing parameter-space regularization algorithms such as EWC underperform on neural networks trained with cross-entropy loss. We show that the proposed method can prevent forgetting while achieving high continual fine-tuning performance on image classification tasks. To show that our method can be applied to general continual learning settings, we evaluate our method in data-incremental, task-incremental, and class-incremental learning problems.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Optimization & Training, Meta & Continual Learning

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A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and Application (2023, methodology): “As for adapting a ﬁxed backbone, Side-Tuning [198] and DLCFT [199] train a lightweight network in parallel with the backbone and fuse their outputs linearly.”