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Severity5/10

Catastrophic Forgetting

Drastic loss of previously learned knowledge when a neural network is trained on new tasks, especially problematic in continual learning.

Periodic recordReliabilityarXiv2020

Shuhao Gu, Yang Feng

Mitigation Strategy

Implementation of replay buffers with old data, Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) techniques, Progressive Neural Networks, and multi-task training.

Atomic Number

59

Ct

Risk ID

pr-59

Severity

5/10

Severity Level

59
Reliability
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Ct

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Catastrophic Forgetting

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Catastrophic Forgetting

Ct
Severity Level5/10

Definition

Drastic loss of previously learned knowledge when a neural network is trained on new tasks, especially problematic in continual learning.

Mitigation Strategy

Implementation of replay buffers with old data, Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) techniques, Progressive Neural Networks, and multi-task training.

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