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Poster

Addressing Catastrophic Forgetting in Few-Shot Problems

Pauching Yap · Hippolyt Ritter · David Barber

Virtual

Keywords: [ Computer Vision ] [ Generative Models ] [ Deep Learning -> CNN Architectures; Deep Learning ] [ Multitask, Transfer, and Meta Learning ] [ Algorithms ]


Abstract:

Neural networks are known to suffer from catastrophic forgetting when trained on sequential datasets. While there have been numerous attempts to solve this problem in large-scale supervised classification, little has been done to overcome catastrophic forgetting in few-shot classification problems. We demonstrate that the popular gradient-based model-agnostic meta-learning algorithm (MAML) indeed suffers from catastrophic forgetting and introduce a Bayesian online meta-learning framework that tackles this problem. Our framework utilises Bayesian online learning and meta-learning along with Laplace approximation and variational inference to overcome catastrophic forgetting in few-shot classification problems. The experimental evaluations demonstrate that our framework can effectively achieve this goal in comparison with various baselines. As an additional utility, we also demonstrate empirically that our framework is capable of meta-learning on sequentially arriving few-shot tasks from a stationary task distribution.

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