TY - JOUR AU - Riemer, Matthew AU - Klinger, Tim AU - Bouneffouf, Djallel AU - Franceschini, Michele PY - 2019/07/17 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Scalable Recollections for Continual Lifelong Learning JF - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence JA - AAAI VL - 33 IS - 01 SE - AAAI Technical Track: Cognitive Systems DO - 10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33011352 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/3935 SP - 1352-1359 AB - <p>Given the recent success of Deep Learning applied to a variety of single tasks, it is natural to consider more human-realistic settings. Perhaps the most difficult of these settings is that of continual lifelong learning, where the model must learn online over a continuous stream of non-stationary data. A successful continual lifelong learning system must have three key capabilities: it must <em>learn and adapt</em> over time, it must <em>not forget</em> what it has learned, and it must be <em>efficient</em> in both training time and memory. Recent techniques have focused their efforts primarily on the first two capabilities while questions of efficiency remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we consider the problem of efficient and effective storage of experiences over very large time-frames. In particular we consider the case where typical experiences are <em>O</em>(<em>n</em>) bits and memories are limited to <em>O</em>(<em>k</em>) bits for <em>k << n</em>. We present a novel scalable architecture and training algorithm in this challenging domain and provide an extensive evaluation of its performance. Our results show that we can achieve considerable gains on top of state-of-the-art methods such as GEM. <sup>1</sup></p> ER -