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Jul 2026
To Retain or to Adapt? Generalizing Continual Learning
This work formalizes CL as an online optimization problem governed by the interaction between environmental and learning dynamics, and introduces Transfer Efficiency as a quantitative measure of the tension between Instability, the bias inherited from conflicting past experience, and Transient Error, the optimization cost of learning new tasks from scratch.
Giulia Lanzillotta, Mandana Samiei, D. Precup et al.
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