Researchers Debate: What Exactly is Continual Learning and Its Eval?
shakoistsLog · x · 2026-08-13
A developer expressed frustration with the hype around "continual learning" in AI, questioning its definition and lack of clear evaluation metrics, calling it sloppy ML jargon. In response, a researcher argued that it can be easily defined as updating weights via gradients during inference, and designing an eval for it is straightforward.
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