arXiv:2607. 23837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models generalize well to individual tasks but lack an inherent mechanism for learning them sequentially, leading to catastrophic forgetting.
By Reza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Giulia Pedrielli, Pavan Turaga, Hassan Ghasemzadeh
arXiv:2603. 11201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The world is inherently dynamic, and continual learning aims to enable models to adapt to ever-evolving data streams.
By Haihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Tommi K\"arkk\"ainen, Huiyan Xue, Zhonghua Chen, Qi Xu, Fengyu Cong
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
The paper introduces FiUni, a Fisher-guided unified framework that performs batch-level task detection and parameter-efficient continual adaptation for large language models. By exploiting orthogonality in the Fisher information matrix’s Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature subspaces, FiUni constructs frozen subspaces to guide low-rank adaptation and matches incoming batch windows to historical subspaces. This approach allows the model to decide whether to reuse, expand, or create new subspaces, balancing knowledge sharing and task isolation while achieving competitive performance with fewer trainable parameters.
By Dezheng Han, Anbang Zhang, Zhihao Zhu, Shuaishuai Guo
arXiv:2602. 00722v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter-efficient continual learning aims to adapt pre-trained models to sequential tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge.
By Hao Gu, Mao-Lin Luo, Zi-Hao Zhou, Han-Chen Zhang, Min-Ling Zhang, Tong Wei
The paper introduces EoupCT, a framework that estimates and orthogonalizes unknown pre‑training gradients to mitigate catastrophic forgetting during continual fine‑tuning of large language models. It generates pseudo data most susceptible to forgetting using a learnable soft prompt with Gumbel‑Softmax, then jointly optimizes model parameters and the prompt via a first‑order Pareto optimizer to enforce orthogonality between new task updates and the estimated gradients. Experiments on multiple LLMs show that EoupCT preserves both task‑specific performance and the models’ inherent general‑purpose knowledge.
By Bing Wang, Changchun Li, Xin-Qiang Cai, Lin Yuanbo Wu, Ximing Li, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama
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
arXiv:2606. 01873v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-Aligner has emerged as a prevalent pre-training paradigm for Text-Attributed Graphs(TAGS), aligning graph and text modalities into a shared embedding space via CLIP-style contrastive learning.
By Yuhan Wang, Yibo Ding, Yutong Ye, Mufan Zhao, Wenbo Zhang, Ruijie Wang, Jianxin Li
arXiv:2506. 10355v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many real-world applications collect data in a streaming environment, where learning tasks are encountered sequentially.
By Yu-Yang Qian, Yuan-Ze Xu, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Peng Zhao, Zhi-Hua 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:2607. 12112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across distributed networks enables privacy-sensitive adaptation to evolving data streams, yet a fundamental obstacle prevents robust deployment in dynamic environments: catastrophic forgetting, wherein sequential task updates erase previously acquired knowledge across visual, linguistic, and cross-modal representations.
By Jing Liu, Chenxuanyin Zou, Jiayang Ren, Gaoyun Fang, Chengfang Li, Yan Wang, Zhenchao Ma, Bo Hu
arXiv:2511. 06237v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enabling lifelong learning in LLMs demands resolving the stability-plasticity dilemma (i.
By Haeyong Kang, Hee Suk Yoon, Dahua Feng, Chang D. Yoo