[Continual Learning Course] Lecture #2: Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting

Course Title: "Continual Learning: On Machines that can Learn Continually"
Lecture #2: "Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting"
Instructor: Vincenzo Lomonaco, University of Pisa & ContinualAI

In this lecture we will address the following points:

- What is catastrophic forgetting?
- Understanding forgetting with one neuron
- A deep learning example: Permuted and Split MNIST
- Brainstorming session: how to solve forgetting?
- Avalanche: an end-to-end library for continual learning research

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Learning continually from non-stationary data streams is a fascinating research topic and a fundamental aspect of Intelligence. At ContinualAI, in conjunction with the University of Pisa and the AIDA Doctoral Academy, we are proud to offer the first official open-access course on Continual Learning. Anyone from around the world can join the class and learn about this fascinating topic, completely for free!

Check out more details and course materials at the official website: https://course.continualai.org

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