AI Technology & Industry Review
In a new paper A Definition of Continual Reinforcement LearningA Definition of Continual Reinforcement Learning, a DeepMind research team rethinks RL problems as endless adaptation and provides a clean, general, precise mathematical definition of continual reinforcement learning (CRL), aiming to promote researches on CRL from a solid conceptual foundation.
In the new paper Continual Few-Shot Learning Using HyperTransformers, a Google Research team proposes Continual HyperTransformer, which modifies the recently published HyperTransformer few-shot learning method to sequentially update a convolutional neural network’s weights based on the information in a new task without forgetting the knowledge it learned from previous tasks.
In the new paper BlenderBot 3: A Deployed Conversational Agent That Continually Learns to Responsibly Engage, researchers from Meta AI and Mila/McGill University release BlenderBot 3, a 175B parameter state-of-the-art open-domain dialogue model deployed on a public website. BlenderBot 3 is designed for continual learning via its user interactions.
A research team from ETH Zurich combines continual learning and self-supervision to propose a novel robot system that enables online life-long self-supervised learning of semantic scene understanding.