Researchers create framework to help artificial intelligence systems be less forgetful WRAL TechWire

"We have proposed a new framework for continual learning, which decouples network structure learning and model parameter learning," says Yingbo Zhou, co-lead author of the paper and a research scientist at Salesforce Research. "We call it the Learn to Grow framework. In experimental testing, we've found that it outperforms previous approaches to continual learning." To understand the Learn to Grow framework, think of deep neural networks as a pipe filled with multiple layers. Raw data goes into the top of the pipe, and task outputs come out the bottom.