Lifelong, Continual Learning Agents

Funder	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Recipient Organization	University of Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Aug 31, 2024
End Date	Aug 30, 2028
Duration	1,460 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2926524`

Grant Description

The current paradigm of training followed by inference is inherently limiting. Agents should learn continually, refining their knowledge through ongoing interactions with the world. However, the stability-plasticity dilemma hinders the development of agents to learn continuously without forgetting.

My research investigates how to create agents that can learn from a diverse range of tasks, retain knowledge acquired from prior concepts, and effectively transfer knowledge across domains.