Disputation von Kyra Ahrens am 18.07.2025, 11:00 Uhr

18. Juli 2025, von Reinhard Zierke

Einladung zur hochschulöffentlichen Disputation im Rahmen des Promotionsverfahrens von Kyra Ahrens

Titel der Dissertation: Methods for Downstream Continual Learning with Foundation Models

Continual learning addresses the challenge of training deep neural networks on a sequence of tasks without catastrophic forgetting. This thesis bridges the gap in downstream continual fine-tuning of foundation models by introducing and evaluating four different strategies: dual-memory replay, multi-layer prototyping, selective specialization, and noise-augmented feature replay, each delivering strong performance across diverse unimodal classification and multimodal reasoning problems.
The presentation will be given in English.

Datum und Uhrzeit: Freitag, 18. Juli 2025 um 11:00 Uhr
Ort: Informatikum, Raum D-220 und per Videokonferenz
Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Stefan Wermter

Prof. Dr. Matthias Rarey
Vorsitzender des Fachpromotionsausschusses Informatik