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Bartłomiej Twardowski

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preprint2026arXiv

Online Continual Learning with Dynamic Label Hierarchies

Online Continual Learning (OCL) aims to learn from endless non\text{-}stationary data streams, yet most existing methods assume a flat label space and overlook the hierarchical organization of real\text{-}world concepts that evolves both horizontally (sibling classes) and vertically (coarse or fine categories). To better reflect this context, we introduce a new problem setting, DHOCL (Online Continual Learning from Dynamic Hierarchies), where taxonomies evolve across granularities and each sample provides supervision at a single hierarchical level. In this setting, we find two fundamental issues: (i) partial supervision under mixed granularities provides only point-wise signals over an evolving path-wise hierarchy, which constrains plasticity and undermines cross-level semantic consistency, and (ii) the dynamically evolving hierarchies induce granularity-dependent interference, destabilizing popular replay and regularization mechanisms and thereby exacerbating catastrophic forgetting. To tackle these issues, we propose HALO (Hierarchical Adaptive Learning with Organized Prototypes), which adaptively combines complementary classification heads, regularized by organized learnable hierarchical prototypes, enabling rapid adaptation, hierarchical consistency, and structured knowledge consolidation as the taxonomy evolves. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that HALO consistently outperforms existing methods across hierarchical accuracy, mistake severity, and continual performance.

preprint2022arXiv

Online Meta-Learning for Model Update Aggregation in Federated Learning for Click-Through Rate Prediction

In Federated Learning (FL) of click-through rate (CTR) prediction, users' data is not shared for privacy protection. The learning is performed by training locally on client devices and communicating only model changes to the server. There are two main challenges: (i) the client heterogeneity, making FL algorithms that use the weighted averaging to aggregate model updates from the clients have slow progress and unsatisfactory learning results; and (ii) the difficulty of tuning the server learning rate with trial-and-error methodology due to the big computation time and resources needed for each experiment. To address these challenges, we propose a simple online meta-learning method to learn a strategy of aggregating the model updates, which adaptively weighs the importance of the clients based on their attributes and adjust the step sizes of the update. We perform extensive evaluations on public datasets. Our method significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art in both the speed of convergence and the quality of the final learning results.

preprint2021arXiv

Metric Learning for Session-based Recommendations

Session-based recommenders, used for making predictions out of users' uninterrupted sequences of actions, are attractive for many applications. Here, for this task we propose using metric learning, where a common embedding space for sessions and items is created, and distance measures dissimilarity between the provided sequence of users' events and the next action. We discuss and compare metric learning approaches to commonly used learning-to-rank methods, where some synergies exist. We propose a simple architecture for problem analysis and demonstrate that neither extensively big nor deep architectures are necessary in order to outperform existing methods. The experimental results against strong baselines on four datasets are provided with an ablation study.

preprint2020arXiv

On Class Orderings for Incremental Learning

The influence of class orderings in the evaluation of incremental learning has received very little attention. In this paper, we investigate the impact of class orderings for incrementally learned classifiers. We propose a method to compute various orderings for a dataset. The orderings are derived by simulated annealing optimization from the confusion matrix and reflect different incremental learning scenarios, including maximally and minimally confusing tasks. We evaluate a wide range of state-of-the-art incremental learning methods on the proposed orderings. Results show that orderings can have a significant impact on performance and the ranking of the methods.

preprint2020arXiv

Semantic Drift Compensation for Class-Incremental Learning

Class-incremental learning of deep networks sequentially increases the number of classes to be classified. During training, the network has only access to data of one task at a time, where each task contains several classes. In this setting, networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting which refers to the drastic drop in performance on previous tasks. The vast majority of methods have studied this scenario for classification networks, where for each new task the classification layer of the network must be augmented with additional weights to make room for the newly added classes. Embedding networks have the advantage that new classes can be naturally included into the network without adding new weights. Therefore, we study incremental learning for embedding networks. In addition, we propose a new method to estimate the drift, called semantic drift, of features and compensate for it without the need of any exemplars. We approximate the drift of previous tasks based on the drift that is experienced by current task data. We perform experiments on fine-grained datasets, CIFAR100 and ImageNet-Subset. We demonstrate that embedding networks suffer significantly less from catastrophic forgetting. We outperform existing methods which do not require exemplars and obtain competitive results compared to methods which store exemplars. Furthermore, we show that our proposed SDC when combined with existing methods to prevent forgetting consistently improves results.