arXiv AI
Jul 8
To Retain or to Adapt? Generalizing Continual Learning
arXiv:2607. 05609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Continual Learning (CL) literature has long been driven by the goal of mitigating catastrophic forgetting.
Grow-Prune-Freeze Networks: Adaptive & Continual Learning Technique for Olfactory Navigation
arXiv:2605. 25170v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training data for olfaction is scattered through disparate, non-standardized datasets that limit the ability to build representative world models.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
When Does Continual Learning Require Learning
arXiv:2607. 07847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable, the next question is how can we enable models to continually learn?
arXiv AI
Jul 22
Parameter-Efficient Continual Fine-Tuning: A Survey
arXiv:2504. 13822v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of large pre-trained networks has revolutionized the AI field, unlocking new possibilities and achieving unprecedented performance.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
Plasticity of Growing and Elastic Neural Networks in Online Continual Learning
arXiv:2608. 01475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks that can grow or both grow and shrink during learning, referred to as growing neural networks and elastic neural networks, respectively, have recently been explored in offline continual learning with a particular focus on catastrophic forgetting.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21
Benchmarking World Models for Continual Learning on Compositional Tasks
The paper introduces a compositional continual learning benchmark for world models in robot manipulation, designed to isolate knowledge reuse from learning speed and capacity. Tasks are curated to combine previously seen action and perception components, allowing analysis of how different modalities affect reuse. Experiments show that modular world models better balance reuse and forgetting than conventional methods, yet none fully solve the challenge, highlighting the need for models explicitly built to reuse knowledge without forgetting.
arXiv AI
Aug 6
ATLAS: Adaptive Topological Learning with Abstract Successors for Continual Learning
arXiv:2608. 04334v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contemporary model-free reinforcement learning algorithms can achieve very high performance, but have low sample efficiency and are not robust to changes in the environment.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
Task diversity produces systematic transfer but inhibits continual reinforcement learning
arXiv:2606. 00880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning aims to produce agents that learn not only to improve at their current tasks but also to adapt as task distributions change.
arXiv AI
4d ago
Normative Loss Landscape Navigation: A Trajectory-Based Approach to Mitigating Forgetting in Incremental Learning
The paper introduces TMLN (Trajectory-Modulatory Landscape Navigation), a method that treats continual learning as an optimal control problem on a curved loss landscape. It uses a diagonal empirical Fisher Information Matrix to approximate a local Riemannian manifold and dynamically modulates a preconditioner based on the network’s historical parameter trajectory. This trajectory‑based preconditioning is integrated into gradient updates to protect important parameter directions without adding explicit penalties, and experiments on class‑ and domain‑incremental benchmarks show a significant reduction in the loss barrier between tasks.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
The Bayesian Approach to Continual Learning: An Overview
arXiv:2507. 08922v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning is an online paradigm where a learner continually accumulates knowledge from different tasks encountered over sequential time steps.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
Continual Learning Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI Systems in Real-World Stateful Environments
arXiv:2606. 05661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning, the ability of AI systems to improve through sequential experience, has attracted substantial interest, but no high-quality benchmark exists to evaluate it.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2
Simple Recipe Works: Vision-Language-Action Models are Natural Continual Learners with Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2603. 11653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is a promising direction toward self-improving embodied agents that can adapt in openended, evolving environments.
arXiv AI
Aug 25
Reward-Free Continual Adaptation for Resilient Space Robots
The paper presents a reward‑free continual learning framework for space robots that uses latent‑state world models to adapt to severe hardware degradation. By pre‑training a model‑based agent in diverse simulations, the world model learns to predict reward structure in latent space. During deployment, the observation encoder and reward predictor are frozen while only the transition dynamics are updated via unsupervised rollouts, allowing the policy to adapt using imagined trajectories without new rewards.