In plain words: A neural network that never stops training, updating itself from each new piece of data as it arrives instead of learning in a separate phase and then freezing. This keeps learning and memory happening together in one system, as the brain does.
Abstract · On-the-Fly Learning in a Perpetual Learning Machine
Despite the promise of brain-inspired machine learning, deep neural networks (DNN) have frustratingly failed to bridge the deceptively large gap between learning and memory. Here, we introduce a Perpetual Learning Machine; a new type of DNN that is capable of brain-like dynamic 'on the fly' learning because it exists in a self-supervised state of Perpetual Stochastic Gradient Descent. Thus, we provide the means to unify learning and memory within a machine learning framework. We also explore the elegant duality of abstraction and synthesis: the Yin and Yang of deep learning.
Andrew J. R. Simpson
arXiv:1509.00913 · cs.LG · submitted Sep 3, 2015 · updated Sep 29, 2015
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