Depth Aware Hierarchical Replay Continual Learning for Knowledge Based Question Answering (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Continual learning models adapt well to the latest data but lose ability to remember past data due to changes in the data source. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical replay framework that allows models to keep a small memory of previous learned data that uses replay. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms previous continual learning methods in mitigating catastrophic forgetting. |
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