Attention-based Vision Knowledge Adaptation for Constrained Continual Learning
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The demand for continual machine learning in the context of limited computational resources and data availability is critical in the evolving landscape of the connected digital world. Current network applications predominantly rely on deep learning models that require labor/computation-intensive training processes. These models often struggle to effectively adapt to new data while preserving performance on previously acquired knowledge. In this paper, we introduce a lightweight framework for continual knowledge adaptation and learning designed to address these challenges. To prevent disruption of existing services, we propose an attention-based adapter that integrates seamlessly with the existing vision model to encode new incoming data. The weights of the original model are kept fixed during the adaptation process, ensuring the preservation of previously learned knowledge. Furthermore, to enhance learning efficiency and accelerate convergence with new data, we implement a knowledge fusion mechanism that facilitates interaction between existing knowledge and information from new data. Our framework is modular, enabling flexible deployment across distributed devices. The adapter and knowledge fusion module are implemented at each stage with minimal trainable parameters, optimizing resource usage. Extensive experiments and ablation studies validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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