Weiwei Weng

Weiwei Weng, Mahardhika Pratama, Choiru Za'in et al.

A cross domain multistream classification is a challenging problem calling for fast domain adaptations to handle different but related streams in never-ending and rapidly changing environments. Notwithstanding that existing multistream classifiers assume no labelled samples in the target stream, they still incur expensive labelling cost since they require fully labelled samples of the source stream. This paper aims to attack the problem of extreme label shortage in the cross domain multistream classification problems where only very few labelled samples of the source stream are provided before process runs. Our solution, namely Learning Streaming Process from Partial Ground Truth (LEOPARD), is built upon a flexible deep clustering network where its hidden nodes, layers and clusters are added and removed dynamically in respect to varying data distributions. A deep clustering strategy is underpinned by a simultaneous feature learning and clustering technique leading to clustering-friendly latent spaces. A domain adaptation strategy relies on the adversarial domain adaptation technique where a feature extractor is trained to fool a domain classifier classifying source and target streams. Our numerical study demonstrates the efficacy of LEOPARD where it delivers improved performances compared to prominent algorithms in 15 of 24 cases. Source codes of LEOPARD are shared in \url{https://github.com/wengweng001/LEOPARD.git} to enable further study.

Mao Fubing, Weng Weiwei, Mahardhika Pratama et al.

Learning from streaming tasks leads a model to catastrophically erase unique experiences it absorbs from previous episodes. While regularization techniques such as LWF, SI, EWC have proven themselves as an effective avenue to overcome this issue by constraining important parameters of old tasks from changing when accepting new concepts, these approaches do not exploit common information of each task which can be shared to existing neurons. As a result, they do not scale well to large-scale problems since the parameter importance variables quickly explode. An Inter-Task Synaptic Mapping (ISYANA) is proposed here to underpin knowledge retention for continual learning. ISYANA combines task-to-neuron relationship as well as concept-to-concept relationship such that it prevents a neuron to embrace distinct concepts while merely accepting relevant concept. Numerical study in the benchmark continual learning problems has been carried out followed by comparison against prominent continual learning algorithms. ISYANA exhibits competitive performance compared to state of the arts. Codes of ISYANA is made available in \url{https://github.com/ContinualAL/ISYANAKBS}.