Task-Focused Consolidation with Spaced Recall: Making Neural Networks learn like college students

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21109v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:35:30 GMT
• Title: Task-Focused Consolidation with Spaced Recall: Making Neural Networks learn like college students
• Authors: Prital Bamnodkar,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a novel continual learning approach inspired by human learning strategies like Active Recall, Deliberate Practice and Spaced Repetition.<n>It is called Task Focused Consolidation with Spaced Recall (TFC-SR)<n>TFC-SR enhances the standard experience replay with a mechanism we termed the Active Recall Probe.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Deep Neural Networks often suffer from a critical limitation known as Catastrophic Forgetting, where performance on past tasks degrades after learning new ones. This paper introduces a novel continual learning approach inspired by human learning strategies like Active Recall, Deliberate Practice and Spaced Repetition, named Task Focused Consolidation with Spaced Recall (TFC-SR). TFC-SR enhances the standard experience replay with a mechanism we termed the Active Recall Probe. It is a periodic, task-aware evaluation of the model's memory that stabilizes the representations of past knowledge. We test TFC-SR on the Split MNIST and Split CIFAR-100 benchmarks against leading regularization-based and replay-based baselines. Our results show that TFC-SR performs significantly better than these methods. For instance, on the Split CIFAR-100, it achieves a final accuracy of 13.17% compared to standard replay's 7.40%. We demonstrate that this advantage comes from the stabilizing effect of the probe itself, and not from the difference in replay volume. Additionally, we analyze the trade-off between memory size and performance and show that while TFC-SR performs better in memory-constrained environments, higher replay volume is still more effective when available memory is abundant. We conclude that TFC-SR is a robust and efficient approach, highlighting the importance of integrating active memory retrieval mechanisms into continual learning systems.

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