README.md

Hierarchical Indian Buffet Neural Networks for Continual Learning

This code base runs the experiments for the UAI 2021 paper: Hierarchical Indian Buffet Neural Networks for Continual Learning.

The Continual Learning (CL) framework is based from VCL. Structured VI of the IBP and H-IBP approximate posteriors is performed and loosely based off of S-IBP VAE.

Requirements

The requirements for a conda environments are listed in requirements.txt, together with setup instructions. The key package is Tensorflow 1.14.

Data

MNIST is included. MNIST variants are downloaded with the setup script, please run:

bash setup.sh

Running the experiments

To see how to run each script and which arguments may be passed, run:

cd src

python <script_name>.py -h

The scripts below output a pickle file with the results. The notebook results.ipynb loads the pickle files and plots the results.

Permuted MNIST

For the permuted MNIST experiments, from the src directory run:

python run_permuted.py --num_layers=1 --run_baselines --h 5 50 100 --K 100 --tag=ibp > perm_ibp.log

Weight pruning

For a the weight pruning experiment, from the src directory run:

python weight_pruning.py --run_baselines --hibp --tag=hibp_wp > hibp_wp.log

Split MNIST and Variants

For the split MNIST experiments on the background images variant, from the src directory run:

python run_split.py --num_layers=1 --dataset=images --run_baselines --h 5 50 100 --tag=ibp > split_ibp.log

Citation

@article{kessler2019hierarchical,
  title={Hierarchical indian buffet neural networks for bayesian continual learning},
  author={Kessler, Samuel and Nguyen, Vu and Zohren, Stefan and Roberts, Stephen},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02290},
  year={2019}
}