what are the differences among incremental learning, continual learning and lifelong learning?

[xialeiliu]

what are the differences among incremental learning, continual learning and lifelong learning?

[arthurdouillard]

I feel like continual learning = lifelong-learning.

But (class-)incremental learning is about adding new classes at each task, instead of adding new samples of existing classes (online learning). But that's how I see things, may not be standard.

[zihaomu]

In my opinion, they are all the same.

[sheqi]

Continual or Lifelong learning is more broadly compared with incremental learning

[xialeiliu]

There are subtle differences, better to read some of survey papers to have kind of feelings.

[yyy24601]

‘Continual learning’ vs. ‘Lifelong learning’
Often used interchangeably
recently ‘’continual learning" has gained more Popularity

Especially in recent years, the ‘continual learning’ literature tends to have a more narrow focus:
Traditional ML: all training data available at the same time
Continual learning: 1. Training data arrives incrementally 2. There is non-stationarity
CL- narrow—> how to deal with non-stationarity in training data
LL -broad—> an agent learning throughout its lifetime

Incremental learning include task- domain- and class incremental learning