20Newsgroup (10 tasks)

Introduced by Ke et al. in Achieving Forgetting Prevention and Knowledge Transfer in Continual Learning

This dataset has 20 classes and each class has about 1000 documents. The data split for train/validation/test is 1600/200/200. We created 10 tasks, 2 classes per task. Since this is topic-based text classification data, the classes are very different and have little shared knowledge. As mentioned above, this application (and dataset) is mainly used to show a CL model's ability to overcome forgetting. Detailed statistics please on page https://github.com/ZixuanKe/PyContinual

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