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ARXIV:2603.26192 · LIFELONG LEARNING · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:23 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26192LIFELONG LEARNINGSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 22:23 UTCFRESHNESS STALEXuerui Zhang · Xuehao Wang · Zhan Zhuang · Linglan Zhao · Ziyue Li · Xinmin Zhang · +2 at arXiv
A novel distillation method for lifelong learning that adapts to changing task structures, outperforming existing approaches in heterogeneous learning scenarios.
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Pain A novel distillation method for lifelong learning that adapts to changing task structures, outperforming existing approaches in heterogeneous learning scenarios.
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A novel distillation method for lifelong learning that adapts to changing task structures, outperforming existing approaches in heterogeneous learning scenarios. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification tasks)…
Lifelong learning aims to preserve knowledge acquired from previous tasks while incorporating knowledge from a sequence of new tasks. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification tasks) and…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed HAD method significantly outperforms existing methods in this new scenario. Code availability is flagged in the production record;…
Lifelong Learning moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A novel distillation method for lifelong learning that adapts to changing task structures, outperforming existing approaches in heterogeneous learning scenarios.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26192A novel distillation method for lifelong learning that adapts to changing task structures, outperforming existing approaches in heterogeneous learning scenarios.
Abstract
Lifelong learning aims to preserve knowledge acquired from previous tasks while incorporating knowledge from a sequence of new tasks. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification tasks) and neglects the scenario of learning across heterogeneous tasks that possess different structures of outputs. In this work, we formalize this broader setting as lifelong heterogeneous learning (LHL). Departing from conventional lifelong learning, the task sequence of LHL spans different task types, and the learner needs to retain heterogeneous knowledge for different output space structures. To instantiate the LHL, we focus on LHL in the context of dense prediction (LHL4DP), a realistic and challenging scenario. To this end, we propose the Heterogeneity-Aware Distillation (HAD) method, an exemplar-free approach that preserves previously gained heterogeneous knowledge by self-distillation in each training phase. The proposed HAD comprises two complementary components, including a distribution-balanced heterogeneity-aware distillation loss to alleviate the global imbalance of prediction distribution and a salience-guided heterogeneity-aware distillation loss that concentrates learning on informative edge pixels extracted with the Sobel operator. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed HAD method significantly outperforms existing methods in this new scenario.
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A novel distillation method for lifelong learning that adapts to changing task structures, outperforming existing approaches in heterogeneous learning scenarios. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification tasks) and ne...
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Lifelong learning aims to preserve knowledge acquired from previous tasks while incorporating knowledge from a sequence of new tasks. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification tasks) and neglects the scenario of learn...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed HAD method significantly outperforms existing methods in this new scenario. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository...
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Lifelong Learning moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed HAD method significantly outperforms existing methods in this new scenario.
The abstract explicitly states this, and the results tables show HAD achieving higher performance metrics compared to baselines like EWC, iCaRL, and LwF.
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The proposed HAD comprises two complementary components, including a distribution-balanced heterogeneity-aware distillation loss to alleviate the global imbalance of prediction distribution and a salience-guided heterogeneity-aware distillation loss that concentrates learning on informative edge pixels extracted with the Sobel operator.
The abstract clearly outlines the two main components of the HAD method.
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a salience-guided heterogeneity-aware distillation loss that concentrates learning on informative edge pixels extracted with the Sobel operator.
The abstract specifically mentions the role of the salience-guided loss and the Sobel operator.
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we propose the Heterogeneity-Aware Distillation (HAD) method, an exemplar-free approach that preserves previously gained heterogeneous knowledge by self-distillation in each training phase.
The abstract explicitly states that HAD is an exemplar-free approach.
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It involves sequentially learning heterogeneous tasks with distinct objectives and outputs, complicating the learning process.
The paper defines LHL4DP and its challenges, which are directly related to the nature of the tasks.
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As illustrated in Fig. 2, we employ a task-shared encoder to acquire knowledge from sequential tasks and capture fine-grained image features. Given the heterogeneity across tasks, task-specific decoders are introduced.
The methodology section describes the architecture of HAD, including the encoder and decoder structure.
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HAD 35.12 59.63 0.7410 0.2641 35.32 30.55 17.23 37.26 49.12+32.74%3.67
The results table explicitly shows this percentage increase for HAD compared to Vanilla training with ResNet-50.
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To instantiate the LHL, we focus on LHL in the context of dense prediction (LHL4DP), a realistic and challenging scenario. To this end, we propose the Heterogeneity-Aware Distillation (HAD) method
The abstract explicitly states the focus of the paper on LHL4DP and the introduction of the HAD method for this setting.
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we propose the Heterogeneity-Aware Distillation (HAD) method, an exemplar-free approach that preserves previously gained heterogeneous knowledge by self-distillation in each training phase.
The abstract clearly describes the mechanism of HAD for knowledge preservation.
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The proposed HAD comprises two complementary components, including a distribution-balanced heterogeneity-aware distillation loss to alleviate the global imbalance of prediction distribution and a salience-guided heterogeneity-aware distillation loss that concentrates learning on informative edge pixels extracted with the Sobel operator.
The abstract details the two main components of the HAD method.
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and a salience-guided heterogeneity-aware distillation loss that concentrates learning on informative edge pixels extracted with the Sobel operator.
The abstract specifically mentions the role of the Sobel operator in the salience-guided component.
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Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed HAD method significantly outperforms existing methods in this new scenario.
The abstract concludes by stating the superior performance of HAD based on experiments.
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