Psycholinguistics Meets Continual Learning: Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question Answering (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to overcome catastrophic forgetting in visual question answering models are inadequate, but have received little attention within natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They devise a set of linguistically-informed visual question answering tasks motivated by psycholinguistics and investigate impact of task difficulty on continual learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models differ in the types of questions they ask and show that task difficulty and order matter. |
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