arXiv:2511.11676cs.LGcs.AI2025-11AAAI

提出LwP框架,通过保持表示空间几何结构来解决持续多任务学习中的遗忘问题。

Learning with Preserving for Continual Multitask Learning

  • 用动态加权距离保真损失,约束潜在表示间的相对距离
  • 在时序与图像基准上显著减少灾难性遗忘,超越现有最佳方法
  • 无需重放缓冲区,适合隐私敏感场景,对分布漂移更鲁棒

在自动驾驶和医学影像分析等关键领域,人工智能系统需持续学习新任务,共享同一数据流。例如,模型先学习识别交通标志,再通过同一摄像头数据学习识别交通灯或车辆类型。这种连续多任务学习(CMTL)要求模型在不遗忘已有知识的前提下,逐步掌握新任务。现有方法因学习碎片化、任务特异性特征而失效。为此,我们提出学习与保持(LwP)框架,将重点从保留任务输出转向维护共享表示空间的几何结构。核心是动态加权距离保真(DWDP)损失,通过正则化潜在表示间的成对距离,防止表示漂移。该机制使模型能保留隐含知识并支持多样任务,且无需重放缓冲区,适用于隐私敏感应用。在时序与图像基准上的大量实验表明,LwP不仅能缓解灾难性遗忘,还在多数CMTL任务中持续优于前沿基线。尤其值得注意的是,该方法对分布漂移具有更强鲁棒性,并是唯一超越强单任务学习基线的方法,凸显其在真实动态环境中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Artificial intelligence systems in critical fields like autonomous driving and medical imaging analysis often continually learn new tasks using a shared stream of input data. For instance, after learning to detect traffic signs, a model may later need to learn to classify traffic lights or different types of vehicles using the same camera feed. This scenario introduces a challenging setting we term Continual Multitask Learning (CMTL), where a model sequentially learns new tasks on an underlying data distribution without forgetting previously learned abilities. Existing continual learning methods often fail in this setting because they learn fragmented, task-specific features that interfere with one another. To address this, we introduce Learning with Preserving (LwP), a novel framework that shifts the focus from preserving task outputs to maintaining the geometric structure of the shared representation space. The core of LwP is a Dynamically Weighted Distance Preservation (DWDP) loss that prevents representation drift by regularizing the pairwise distances between latent data representations. This mechanism of preserving the underlying geometric structure allows the model to retain implicit knowledge and support diverse tasks without requiring a replay buffer, making it suitable for privacy-conscious applications. Extensive evaluations on time-series and image benchmarks show that LwP not only mitigates catastrophic forgetting but also consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in CMTL tasks. Notably, our method shows superior robustness to distribution shifts and is the only approach to surpass the strong single-task learning baseline, underscoring its effectiveness for real-world dynamic environments.

持续学习多任务学习表示保真无重放

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