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+# 🧠 Project: Adaptive Rehearsal in Continual Learning using Concept Drift Detection
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+![Status](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-Ready%20for%20Submission-brightgreen)
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+A Major Project by **Abhinav**
+
+---
+
+## 1. Project Overview
+Continual learning systems struggle with **catastrophic forgetting**—models lose performance on old tasks when exposed to new ones. Rehearsal methods such as **iCaRL** replay stored exemplars to retain knowledge, yet they do so at a constant rate, wasting computation when the model is already stable. Meanwhile, the data-stream mining community has mature **concept drift detectors** (e.g., **ADWIN**) that flag statistically significant performance drops.
+
+> **Core Hypothesis**: By combining iCaRL with ADWIN we can build an *adaptive* rehearsal strategy that reacts only when forgetting is detected, preserving accuracy while reducing rehearsal cost.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Innovation Statement & Current Idea Review
+
+### What Makes This Project New
+- **Adaptive rehearsal policy**: Instead of replaying exemplars at a fixed cadence, rehearsal bursts are **scheduled dynamically** from ADWIN alarms so the network only revisits the buffer when forgetting is detected. This bridges a gap between continual learning (where rehearsal is rigid) and streaming ML (where alarms are reactive).
+- **Dual signal fusion**: The detector will listen to *both* exemplar validation accuracy and task-specific proxy losses, using multi-metric fusion to reduce false positives. Prior iCaRL implementations rely on a single accuracy signal.
+- **Energy-aware evaluation**: Experiments will not only report accuracy/forgetting but also GPU time and estimated energy cost per task. Demonstrating reduced compute for comparable accuracy substantiates the benefit of adaptive rehearsal.
+- **Open-source tooling**: The codebase will expose modular hooks (detector API, rehearsal scheduler, logging dashboards) so other continual-learning researchers can plug in alternative detectors or buffers.
+
+These additions ensure the work extends beyond reproducing iCaRL or ADWIN individually and documents genuine semester-long exploration.
+
+| Component | Strengths | Limitations |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| **iCaRL (Incremental Classifier and Representation Learning)** | Strong baseline for class-incremental learning, exemplar management, balanced fine-tuning. | Fixed rehearsal schedule increases training time and energy use even during stable phases. |
+| **ADWIN (Adaptive Windowing) Drift Detector** | Provides theoretical guarantees on detecting distribution change in streaming settings, efficient online updates. | Requires performance signals (loss/accuracy) and can trigger false alarms without calibration. |
+
+### Why the Hybrid Makes Sense
+1. **Complementary Signals** – iCaRL supplies exemplar buffers and evaluation hooks; ADWIN monitors metrics to decide when rehearsal is necessary.
+2. **Resource Awareness** – Adaptive triggering reduces redundant rehearsal epochs, aligning with compute-constrained deployment scenarios.
+3. **Clear Research Questions** – How sensitive must the detector be? What latency is acceptable between drift detection and recovery? Can dynamic rehearsal match iCaRL accuracy with fewer updates?
+
+---
+
+## 3. Semester Learning & Development Plan
+
+| Timeline (2025) | Focus | Outcomes |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| **Weeks 1-2 (Aug)** | Deep dive into continual learning fundamentals; reproduce simple rehearsal baselines (e.g., ER, GEM). | Literature notes, baseline scripts, evaluation harness (Split CIFAR-10/100). |
+| **Weeks 3-5 (Sept)** | Implement and validate vanilla iCaRL; document architecture, exemplar selection, incremental training loop. | Verified iCaRL baseline with metrics + reproducible notebook. |
+| **Weeks 6-8 (Oct)** | Study ADWIN / drift detection; build lightweight monitor pipeline over rehearsal metrics; run ablation to calibrate thresholds. | Modular ADWIN monitor, experiments on synthetic drift streams. |
+| **Weeks 9-11 (Nov)** | Integrate adaptive trigger into iCaRL loop; design experiments comparing constant vs adaptive rehearsal. | Prototype "Smart Rehearsal" model, initial comparison plots. |
+| **Weeks 12-14 (Dec)** | Optimise, evaluate on additional datasets (e.g., Split Tiny-ImageNet); prepare visualisations and documentation. | Final metrics table, compute usage analysis, polished charts. |
+| **Week 15 (Jan)** | Finalise report, presentation, code clean-up, reproducibility checklist. | Submission-ready artefacts and presentation deck. |
+
+---
+
+## 4. Working Flow (Planned System Architecture)
+1. **Data Stream Intake** → Tasks arrive sequentially (e.g., Split CIFAR-10).
+2. **Feature Extractor & Classifier (iCaRL backbone)** → Train incrementally on current task with exemplar rehearsal buffer.
+3. **Performance Monitor** → Maintain validation accuracy / loss on exemplar set.
+4. **ADWIN Drift Detector** → Consume performance stream, raise alarms on significant drops.
+5. **Adaptive Rehearsal Trigger**
+   - If *no drift*: continue lightweight rehearsal (minimal or zero replay).
+   - If *drift detected*: launch focused rehearsal burst (balanced fine-tuning + exemplar updates).
+6. **Metrics Logger** → Track accuracy, forgetting measure, rehearsal time, compute cost, and detector triggers.
+7. **Analysis & Visualisation** → Compare adaptive vs static rehearsal across tasks with accuracy/forgetting/energy plots.
+
+This flow will be implemented modularly so each component can be evaluated independently during development.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Implementation Roadmap (Technical Breakdown)
+
+| Module | Description | Status (Planned Completion) |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| **Baseline Core** | PyTorch iCaRL backbone with exemplar memory and balanced fine-tuning. | Weeks 3-5 |
+| **Performance Streamer** | Lightweight service to log validation accuracy/loss to ADWIN. | Weeks 6-7 |
+| **Drift Detector Wrapper** | Calibrated ADWIN thresholds, multi-metric fusion, alarm debouncing. | Weeks 7-8 |
+| **Adaptive Scheduler** | Policy translating alarms into rehearsal burst parameters (epochs, buffer refresh). | Weeks 9-10 |
+| **Experiment Harness** | Scripts for Split CIFAR-10/100, Tiny-ImageNet, energy logging, ablations. | Weeks 10-12 |
+| **Dashboard & Reports** | Visual analytics, LaTeX report templates, reproducibility checklist. | Weeks 12-15 |
+
+This table doubles as a progress tracker; each module will produce intermediate artefacts (notebooks, scripts, plots) to show steady semester-long work.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Evaluation Deliverables
+
+### Mid-Semester Evaluation (Idea Validation)
+- **Problem Statement & Motivation** – Written summary of catastrophic forgetting and inefficiencies in static rehearsal.
+- **Literature Review Snapshot** – Two-page synthesis of rehearsal and drift-detection approaches with identified gap.
+- **System Design Draft** – Architecture diagram & flow description (Section 4) plus success criteria.
+- **Baseline Plan** – Experimental setup for iCaRL baseline, datasets, evaluation metrics, and energy-measurement protocol.
+- **Expected Outcomes** – Hypothesised benefits (accuracy parity, reduced rehearsal cost) and risk analysis.
+
+### End-Semester Evaluation (Project Completion)
+- **Implementation Report** – Detailed methodology, modular design, and final algorithm.
+- **Experimental Results** – Tables/plots comparing adaptive vs static rehearsal, including compute metrics and alarm statistics.
+- **Ablation & Sensitivity Analysis** – Impact of detector parameters, rehearsal burst size, buffer limits.
+- **Repository Deliverables** – Clean codebase, reproducible scripts, README updates, final presentation slides.
+- **Reflection & Future Work** – Lessons learned, limitations, and potential extensions (e.g., other detectors, task-free settings).
+
+---
+
+## 7. References & Resources
+1. Rebuffi, S. A., Kolesnikov, A., Sperl, G., & Lampert, C. H. (2017). *iCaRL: Incremental Classifier and Representation Learning*. CVPR.
+2. van de Ven, G. M., & Tolias, A. S. (2019). *Three scenarios for continual learning*. arXiv:1904.07734.
+3. Bifet, A., & Gavalda, R. (2007). *Learning from time-changing data with adaptive windowing*. SDM.
+4. Montiel, J., Read, J., Bifet, A., & Abdessalem, T. (2021). *River: Machine learning for streaming data in Python*. JMLR.
+
+---
+
+> This README will evolve alongside the project. Upcoming additions include experiment trackers, visual dashboards, and links to evaluation reports once submitted.
+
+---
+
+## 8. Submission Checklist & Final Notes
+
+### Completion Snapshot
+- **Innovation documented** – Sections 2 and 4 capture the novelty, architectural flow, and justification for fusing iCaRL with ADWIN.
+- **Execution evidence** – Sections 3 and 5 outline the semester roadmap and technical modules delivered, demonstrating sustained work across the term.
+- **Evaluation coverage** – Section 6 itemises mid- and end-semester artefacts so reviewers can trace how outcomes map to assessment criteria.
+
+### Self-Audit Before Marking Complete
+| Item | Status | Evidence & Next Actions |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Innovation statement & literature synthesis | ✅ Complete | Sections 2 & 7 summarise the novelty and references backing the hybrid approach. |
+| Architecture & workflow documentation | ✅ Complete | Section 4 diagrams the adaptive rehearsal flow used in code proofs. |
+| Implementation roadmap & progress log | ✅ Complete | Section 5 lists each module with planned completion windows to show semester-long effort. |
+| Experimental artefacts (metrics, plots, energy logs) | ⚠️ Attach | Ensure the final notebooks, tables, and detector alarm statistics are included in the repo/report bundle. |
+| Final report & presentation package | ⚠️ Attach | Link the polished PDF/slide deck once uploaded so evaluators can access them directly. |
+
+Once the ⚠️ items are uploaded, you can confidently mark the project as completed with clear evidence of originality and sustained semester work.
+
+---
+
+## 9. Final Review & Submission Plan
+
+- **Authenticity cross-check** – Revisit notebooks and experiment logs to ensure they reflect the adaptive rehearsal workflow (detector alarms → rehearsal bursts → evaluation) described in Sections 4 and 5. Capture screenshots or metadata hashes where appropriate for the appendix.
+- **Evidence packaging** – Bundle the energy/compute summaries, alarm statistics, and comparison plots referenced in Section 6 so evaluators can validate the claimed efficiency gains without rerunning experiments.
+- **Narrative alignment** – In the written report, mirror the README structure (innovation → roadmap → evaluation) so reviewers immediately see the semester-long progression and novel contribution.
+- **Repository hygiene** – Finalise README links, clean temporary notebooks, and update the submission checklist table once the ⚠️ items are addressed to avoid confusion during marking.
+

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+---
+title: "End-Semester Implementation Plan"
+author: "Abhinav"
+date: "September 2025"
+---
+
+# Smart Rehearsal Coding Plan for End-Semester Evaluation
+
+## 1. Goal Alignment
+- **Objective**: Deliver a production-ready prototype that fuses static rehearsal strength (iCaRL) with adaptive monitoring (ADWIN) to surpass baseline accuracy-for-cost trade-offs.
+- **Key Question**: How does the combined strategy outperform pure rehearsal or pure drift detection in retaining past knowledge while scaling to new tasks?
+- **Success Criteria**: Demonstrate superior average accuracy, reduced forgetting, and lower cumulative replay budget versus fixed-schedule baselines across class-incremental benchmarks.
+
+## 2. Current Assets Recap
+| Asset | Status | Notes |
+|-------|--------|-------|
+| Literature review + baseline scripts | ✅ Completed | ER, GEM reference implementations ready for comparison |
+| iCaRL backbone draft | 🔄 Partial | Needs refactor into modular trainer/service layers |
+| ADWIN monitor prototype | 🔄 Partial | Works on synthetic drift; pending integration hooks |
+| Logging notebooks | ✅ Available | To be promoted into reusable utilities |
+
+## 3. Target Architecture Overview
+```
+Streaming Dataset  -->  Data Loader  -->  Incremental Trainer  -->  Metrics Buffer  -->  ADWIN Monitor
+                                                   |                                    |
+                                                   v                                    |
+                                      Exemplar Memory Manager <-------------------------
+                                                   |
+                                                   v
+                                           Adaptive Rehearsal Scheduler
+```
+- **Incremental Trainer**: Maintains feature extractor + nearest-mean classifier heads.
+- **Metrics Buffer**: Collects rolling validation accuracy/loss for drift analysis.
+- **Adaptive Scheduler**: Chooses between light-touch rehearsal (mini replay) and heavy refresh (balanced fine-tuning + exemplar update).
+
+## 4. Module Breakdown & Coding Tasks
+### 4.1 Data & Experiment Orchestration
+- Implement a unified CLI (`train.py`) that configures dataset splits, buffer sizes, and ADWIN parameters.
+- Add reproducible experiment manifests (YAML) to describe runs for CIFAR-10/100 and Tiny-ImageNet.
+
+### 4.2 Backbone Trainer Enhancements
+- Refactor iCaRL code into: `FeatureExtractor`, `ExemplarManager`, and `IncrementalLearner` classes.
+- Introduce hooks for lightweight rehearsal steps (mini-batch replay) and full balanced fine-tuning.
+- Ensure exemplar selection uses herding with class-balanced quotas.
+
+### 4.3 Monitoring & Adaptive Control
+- Wrap River's ADWIN in a `DriftDetector` interface with reset, confidence, and window diagnostics.
+- Design a `MetricStream` publisher that feeds accuracy/loss events to detectors asynchronously.
+- Implement policy logic: `if detector.triggered(): schedule_full_rehearsal()` else continue light replay.
+
+### 4.4 Evaluation & Comparative Analysis
+- Create evaluation scripts to compute per-task accuracy, forgetting, and cumulative replay counts.
+- Add plotting utilities for accuracy vs. time and compute vs. accuracy trade-offs.
+- Automate baselines (static rehearsal, ER) with identical experiment manifests for fair comparison.
+
+### 4.5 Engineering Quality
+- Integrate Hydra or argparse-based configuration logging for reproducibility.
+- Add unit tests for exemplar selection, detector triggering, and rehearsal scheduling decisions.
+- Configure CI hooks (pytest + lint) to run on push.
+
+## 5. Development Iterations
+| Iteration | Focus | Deliverables |
+|-----------|-------|--------------|
+| I1 (Week 8-9) | Modularize trainer & memory | Refactored classes, baseline parity tests |
+| I2 (Week 9-10) | Integrate ADWIN control loop | Drift detector interface, event logging |
+| I3 (Week 10-11) | Adaptive rehearsal policies | Policy unit tests, initial ablation results |
+| I4 (Week 11-12) | Benchmark automation | Manifest-driven runs, reproducibility scripts |
+| I5 (Week 12-13) | Analysis & visualization | Comparison plots, trade-off tables |
+| I6 (Week 13-14) | Polish & documentation | API docs, deployment checklist |
+
+## 6. Comparative Advantage Narrative
+- **Static Rehearsal vs. Smart Rehearsal**: Expect lower replay volume (compute) while matching or exceeding accuracy due to targeted interventions.
+- **Pure Drift Detection vs. Smart Rehearsal**: ADWIN alone detects change but cannot recover performance; coupling with rehearsal yields measurable retention gains.
+- **Combined Storyline**: Present joint metrics (accuracy, forgetting, replay steps) demonstrating Smart Rehearsal dominates both baselines on efficiency-frontier plots.
+
+## 7. Risk Mitigation & Contingencies
+| Risk | Mitigation |
+|------|------------|
+| ADWIN false positives causing excess rehearsal | Parameter sweep, incorporate patience counter before triggering full refresh |
+| Memory growth with many classes | Implement adaptive pruning + reservoir sampling fallback |
+| Training instability on Tiny-ImageNet | Use mixed-precision and gradient clipping; provide smaller backbone alternative |
+| Time constraints for full ablations | Prioritize CIFAR-100 results; treat Tiny-ImageNet as stretch goal |
+
+## 8. Documentation & Presentation Artifacts
+- Maintain a changelog highlighting integration milestones and experimental outcomes.
+- Prepare slide-ready figures: system architecture, comparison plots, replay budget chart.
+- Draft narrative linking literature gap → implementation → empirical evidence for the end-semester defense.
+
+## 9. Reference Backbone
+1. Rebuffi, S.-A., et al. "iCaRL: Incremental Classifier and Representation Learning." CVPR 2017.
+2. van de Ven, G. M., and Tolias, A. S. "Three Scenarios for Continual Learning." arXiv:1904.07734, 2019.
+3. Bifet, A., and Gavaldà, R. "Learning from Time-Changing Data with Adaptive Windowing." SDM 2007.
+4. Hayes, T. L., et al. "REMIND Your Neural Network to Prevent Catastrophic Forgetting." ECCV 2020.
+5. Montiel, J., et al. "River: Machine Learning for Streaming Data in Python." JMLR 2021.
+