Lifelong Forgetting: A Critical Ingredient of Lifelong Learning

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Year: 2011
Venue: Proceedings of AAAI-11 Workshop on Lifelong Learning

Summary

Argues that forgetting is essential for lifelong learning and describes how ECAN's importance decay mechanisms implement principled forgetting in OpenCog.

Relevance to Hyperon

Informs Hyperon's approach to memory management and attention-based forgetting in the metagraph.