Connectionists: [CoLLAs Seminar][June-10 10am CET] Rahaf Aljundi on "Continuous Accumulation of Knowledge and Experience"

[Sarath Chandar]

Dear all,

We are excited to bring you the second speaker of the monthly CoLLAs
Seminar Series, which has an excellent line-up of speakers from around the
world: https://lifelong-ml.cc/seminar


With this series, we aim to bring together researchers working on
continual, lifelong, and adaptive machine learning to share new ideas, and
foster community-wide dialogue!


Our second talk will be by *Rahaf Aljundi* on *June 10 at 10:00 AM CET*.


*Title*: Towards Continuous Accumulation of Knowledge and Experience


*Abstract*: Continual learning enables models to adapt to streaming data,
targeting knowledge accumulation, and avoiding catastrophic forgetting.
Continual learning research has focused on continual parameter updates;
however, forgetting and learning instability always seem unavoidable,
rendering continual learning a far‑fetched problem. On the other hand,
in‑context learning offers a complementary path to frequent parameter
updates. In this talk, I argue that efficient, continuous adaptation needs
not occur solely in parameter space. I will show how memory‑based
mechanisms enable rapid adaptation and present some of my previous and
recent continual learning works, then discuss how combining fast,
memory‑driven updates with slow model consolidation could shape the future
of continual learning.


*Speaker bio*: Rahaf Aljundi is a research scientist at Toyota Motor
Europe. She is interested in building models that can keep learning (given
any source of supervision), can tell when a novel input is provided and
further point at instances that require annotation. This includes the
topics of continual learning (incremental learning, lifelong learning),
novelty detection (out of distribution, anomaly detection), active learning
and also domain adaptation. She has obtained her PhD degree from KU Leuven
university (Belgium) where she extensively worked on the topic of continual
learning.


*Zoom*:
https://polymtl-ca.zoom.us/j/84066718835?pwd=2cpVMN2XjRXyZrngOFBJSO3Fwifywo.1


We look forward to seeing you there!



Best regards,


Sarath Chandar

On behalf of the CoLLAs Seminar Organizers
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