An agent that efficiently accumulates knowledge to develop increasingly sophisticated skills over a long lifetime could advance the frontier of artificial intelligence capabilities. The design of such agents, which remains a long-standing challenge of artificial intelligence, is addressed by the subject of continual learning. This monograph clarifies and formalizes concepts of continual learning, introducing a framework and set of tools to stimulate further research.

翻译：在漫长生命过程中高效积累知识以发展日益复杂技能的智能体，能够拓展人工智能能力的边界。这类智能体的设计——这一人工智能领域的长期挑战——正是持续学习这一学科所要解决的问题。本专著阐明并形式化了持续学习的核心概念，提出了一个框架及一套工具，以激励后续研究。