A way for AI to learn new tasks without forgetting old ones.
Continual Learning is like a cafeteria cook learning taco Tuesday. Pizza Friday must still taste like pizza.
It helps long-term assistants and robots keep improving. Recommendation apps use it too, without wiping old taste clues.
Online Learning
Continual Learning often updates the model as new data arrives.
Transfer Learning
Transfer Learning brings old task experience into new tasks.
Fine-tuning
Fine-tuning can teach new data, but it may wipe old skills.
Multitask Learning
Multitask Learning learns tasks together. Continual Learning learns them in order.