arXiv Machine Learning

Toward Robust Open-set Adaptation: Synapse Consolidation Inspired by Rac1/MAPK Pathways

arXiv:2604. 00533v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) generalize across tasks through reusable representations and flexible reasoning, yet remain brittle in real deployment when faced with evolving tasks and continual distribution shift.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

A Visual Dependence-Aware Framework for Multimodal Unsupervised Continual Post-Training

The paper introduces a new task called Multimodal Unsupervised Continual Post-Training (MU‑CPT), which allows multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to continuously learn from streaming unlabeled data. It identifies token‑level visual dependence (VD) as essential for MU‑CPT, using its structural distortion to detect cross‑modal forgetting and its heterogeneity to guide new‑task learning. The proposed Visual Dependence‑Aware (VDA) framework includes Visually Constrained Optimal Transport (VC‑OT) to mitigate forgetting and Visually Modulated Adaptation (VMA) to enhance new‑task plasticity, achieving a balance between stability and adaptability in MU‑CPT.

By Kaichen Li, Zhilin Zhu, Jianhao Huang, Zhengqin Lai, Baochen Xiong, Zibo Shao, Yaguang Song, Linhui Xiao, Xiaoshan Yang, Changsheng Xu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

SloMo-Fast: Slow-Momentum and Fast-Adaptive Teachers for Source-Free Continual Test-Time Adaptation

arXiv:2511. 18468v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) is crucial for deploying models in real-world applications with unseen, evolving target domains.

By Md Akil Raihan Iftee, Mir Sazzat Hossain, Rakibul Hasan Rajib, Tariq Iqbal, Md Mofijul Islam, M Ashraful Amin, Amin Ahsan Ali, AKM Mahbubur Rahman