arXiv AI

Dimensionality Controls When Modularity Helps in Continual Learning

arXiv:2606. 17889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Compositional learning systems must balance plasticity, the ability to acquire new knowledge, with stability, the preservation of previously learned components, especially when tasks share structure and risk interference.

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.

By Haoyu Zhou, Joe Watson, Anson Lei, Ingmar Posner
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual Learning

arXiv:2608. 09572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperbolic geometry has recently emerged as a powerful representation space for multimodal learning, as it naturally captures hierarchical semantic structure across modalities.

By Jiahong Liu, Ming Shen, Xiaohao Liu, Rex Ying, Menglin Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Irwin King