Course Outline

Introduction to Continual Learning

  • Why continual learning matters
  • Challenges in maintaining fine-tuned models
  • Key strategies and learning types (online, incremental, transfer)

Data Handling and Streaming Pipelines

  • Managing evolving datasets
  • Online learning with mini-batches and streaming APIs
  • Data labeling and annotation challenges over time

Preventing Catastrophic Forgetting

  • Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC)
  • Replay methods and rehearsal strategies
  • Regularization and memory-augmented networks

Model Drift and Monitoring

  • Detecting data and concept drift
  • Metrics for model health and performance decay
  • Triggering automated model updates

Automation in Model Updating

  • Automated retraining and scheduling strategies
  • Integration with CI/CD and MLOps workflows
  • Managing update frequency and rollback plans

Continual Learning Frameworks and Tools

  • Overview of Avalanche, Hugging Face Datasets, and TorchReplay
  • Platform support for continual learning (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow)
  • Scalability and deployment considerations

Real-World Use Cases and Architectures

  • Customer behavior prediction with evolving patterns
  • Industrial machine monitoring with incremental improvements
  • Fraud detection systems under changing threat models

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • An understanding of machine learning workflows and neural network architectures
  • Experience with model fine-tuning and deployment pipelines
  • Familiarity with data versioning and model lifecycle management

Audience

  • AI maintenance engineers
  • MLOps engineers
  • Machine learning practitioners responsible for model lifecycle continuity
 14 Hours

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