Foundational Models for Continual Learning: An Empirical Study of Latent Replay

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00329v1
• Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 19:11:37 GMT
• Title: Foundational Models for Continual Learning: An Empirical Study of Latent Replay
• Authors: Oleksiy Ostapenko, Timothee Lesort, Pau Rodr\'iguez, Md Rifat Arefin, Arthur Douillard, Irina Rish, Laurent Charlin
• Abstract summary: We study the efficacy of pre-trained vision models as a foundation for downstream continual learning scenarios. We compare efficacy of various pre-trained models in large-scale benchmarking scenarios with a vanilla replay setting applied in the latent and in the raw-data space.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Rapid development of large-scale pre-training has resulted in foundation models that can act as effective feature extractors on a variety of downstream tasks and domains. Motivated by this, we study the efficacy of pre-trained vision models as a foundation for downstream continual learning (CL) scenarios. Our goal is twofold. First, we want to understand the compute-accuracy trade-off between CL in the raw-data space and in the latent space of pre-trained encoders. Second, we investigate how the characteristics of the encoder, the pre-training algorithm and data, as well as of the resulting latent space affect CL performance. For this, we compare the efficacy of various pre-trained models in large-scale benchmarking scenarios with a vanilla replay setting applied in the latent and in the raw-data space. Notably, this study shows how transfer, forgetting, task similarity and learning are dependent on the input data characteristics and not necessarily on the CL algorithms. First, we show that under some circumstances reasonable CL performance can readily be achieved with a non-parametric classifier at negligible compute. We then show how models pre-trained on broader data result in better performance for various replay sizes. We explain this with representational similarity and transfer properties of these representations. Finally, we show the effectiveness of self-supervised pre-training for downstream domains that are out-of-distribution as compared to the pre-training domain. We point out and validate several research directions that can further increase the efficacy of latent CL including representation ensembling. The diverse set of datasets used in this study can serve as a compute-efficient playground for further CL research. The codebase is available under https://github.com/oleksost/latent_CL.

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