A Unified Approach to Domain Incremental Learning with Memory: Theory
  and Algorithm
Haizhou Shi Hao Wang
Domain incremental learning aims to adapt to a sequence of domains with
access to only a small subset of data (i.e., memory) from previous domains.
Various methods have been proposed for this problem, but it is still unclear
how they are related and when practitioners should choose one method over
another. In response, we propose a unified framework, dubbed Unified Domain
Incremental Learning (UDIL), for domain incremental learning with memory. Our
UDIL **unifies** various existing methods, and our theoretical analysis shows
that UDIL always achieves a tighter generalization error bound compared to
these methods. The key insight is that different existing methods correspond to
our bound with different **fixed** coefficients; based on insights from this
unification, our UDIL allows **adaptive** coefficients during training, thereby
always achieving the tightest bound. Empirical results show that our UDIL
outperforms the state-of-the-art domain incremental learning methods on both
synthetic and real-world datasets. Code will be available at
https://github.com/Wang-ML-Lab/unified-continual-learning.