arXiv:2605. 20247v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting remains a major obstacle to continual learning in large language models (LLMs) and vision--language models (VLMs).
By Yang Liu, Toan Nguyen, Flora D. Salim
arXiv:2609.37889v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multimodal continual instruction tuning (MCIT) aims to enable multimodal large language models to acquire new capabilities from sequential tasks whil...
By Tao Hu, Zhinuo Zhou, Xialiang Tong, De-Chuan Zhan, Da-Wei Zhou
arXiv:2609.07009v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal continual learning has recently shown great potential for developing agents with human-like intelligence by continuously learning new tasks...
By Kai Guo, Chuanbin Liu, Peng Hu, Hao Wang, Xi Peng
arXiv:2603. 12658v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt to evolving knowledge and sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting, a critical limitation of the static pre-training paradigm inherent to modern LLMs.
By Hongyang Chen, Zhongwu Sun, Hongfei Ye, Kunchi Li, Xuemin Lin
Multimodal continual instruction tuning (MCIT) aims to enable multimodal large language models to acquire new capabilities from sequential tasks while preserving previously learned knowledge. Existing...
The paper introduces PIECE, a Parameter Importance-Driven Continual Learning method that selectively updates only 0.1% of core parameters to preserve general abilities while learning new domain knowledge. PIECE employs two importance estimators—PIECE‑F using Fisher Information and PIECE‑S combining gradient and curvature information—to guide updates. Experiments on three language models and two multimodal models demonstrate that PIECE maintains general capabilities and achieves state‑of‑the‑art continual learning performance without accessing prior training data or adding parameter overhead.
By Lingxiang Wang, Hainan Zhang, Zhiming Zheng
arXiv:2607. 26947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) rely on a projector to align visual representations with the language embedding space, making it central to cross-modal understanding.
By Duzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Qiaoyi Su, Jiahua Dong, Tielin Zhang
arXiv:2601. 13020v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual instruction tuning (CIT) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to adapt to a stream of tasks without forgetting prior capabilities.
By Zhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma, Yandu Sun, Yonghui Yang, Jinqiao Wang
CRAM (Centroid‑Routing and Adaptive MoE) is a method for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning that isolates task‑specific patterns into independent modules to reduce catastrophic forgetting. It uses adaptive‑rank instantiation to allocate only the necessary parameters for new tasks, and centroid‑guided routing with an orthogonality penalty to reuse existing experts while preventing interference. Experiments on diverse benchmarks show CRAM outperforms existing approaches.
By Jun-Tao Tang, Zhen-Hao Xie, Yu-Cheng Shi, Da-Wei Zhou
arXiv:2609.06986v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Language models may need to internalize information that arrives over time and retain it through many subsequent updates. To study this challenge, we i...
By Zheyuan Zhang, Alvin Zhang, Daniel Khashabi, Tianmin Shu
arXiv:2608. 04548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language model (MLLM) unlearning methods have been proposed to remove private, sensitive, or proprietary information from well-trained models.
By Yuhang Wang, Linlin Zhang, Haoxuan Ji, Xianmin Ye, Zhenxing Niu, Haichang Gao
arXiv:2607. 02010v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models must adapt to evolving tasks and domains, yet continual improvement under bounded deployment footprint remains difficult because repeated parameter updates or growing replay stores can accumulate adaptation state over time.
By Qianyu Chen, Ziteng Feng, Canran Xiao, Runxuan Tang