THE CONTINUAL LEARNING PROBLEM

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The challenge of continual learning in AI models is updating model parameters without compromising existing knowledge. Memory layers, a sparse attention mechanism, is a potential solution for continual learning due to its targeted updates, high capacity, and adaptive integration. A recent paper shows that finetuning memory layers leads to much less forgetting compared to full finetuning or LoRA when learning new information.