Distilled Replay: Overcoming Forgetting through Synthetic Samples

03/29/2021
by   Andrea Rosasco, et al.
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Replay strategies are Continual Learning techniques which mitigate catastrophic forgetting by keeping a buffer of patterns from previous experience, which are interleaved with new data during training. The amount of patterns stored in the buffer is a critical parameter which largely influences the final performance and the memory footprint of the approach. This work introduces Distilled Replay, a novel replay strategy for Continual Learning which is able to mitigate forgetting by keeping a very small buffer (up to 1 pattern per class) of highly informative samples. Distilled Replay builds the buffer through a distillation process which compresses a large dataset into a tiny set of informative examples. We show the effectiveness of our Distilled Replay against naive replay, which randomly samples patterns from the dataset, on four popular Continual Learning benchmarks.

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