arXiv AI

An Empirical Analysis of Continual Learning for Heterogeneous Medical Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 12048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying medical visual question answering (MedVQA) systems in real-world clinical settings requires models that adapt to new clinical tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge.

arXiv AI
Jul 21

MedLVR: Latent Visual Reasoning for Reliable Medical Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2604. 09757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical vision--language models (VLMs) have shown strong potential for medical visual question answering (VQA), yet their reasoning remains largely text-centric: images are encoded once as static context, and subsequent inference is dominated by language.

By Suyang Xi, Songtao Hu, Yuxiang Lai, Wangyun Dan, Yaqi Liu, Shansong Wang, Xiaofeng Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5

MedCRP-CL: Continual Medical Image Segmentation via Bayesian Nonparametric Semantic Modality Discovery

arXiv:2605. 20297v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Medical image segmentation faces a fundamental challenge in continual learning: data arrives sequentially from heterogeneous sources, yet effective continual learning requires discovering which tasks share sufficient structure to benefit from joint learning.

By Ziyuan Gao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Understanding Cross-Modal Contributions in Continual Vision-Language Models: A Theoretical Perspective

arXiv:2606. 14883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual vision-language models are commonly addressed through sequential fine-tuning; however, although this paradigm enables adaptation to new environments (tasks), it inherently emphasizes the contribution of previously learned environments (tasks) at the expense of the stability required to preserve previously acquired knowledge.

By Salimeh Sekeh, Mary Wisell
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

KeepLoRA++: Continual Learning with Layer-Scaled Residual Gradient Adaptation

arXiv:2606. 16256v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning for pre-trained vision-language models requires balancing three competing objectives: retaining pre-trained knowledge, preserving knowledge from a sequence of learned tasks, and maintaining the plasticity to acquire new knowledge.

By Mao-Lin Luo, Yi-Lin Zhang, Zi-Hao Zhou, Yankun Hong, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan, Tong Wei, Min-Ling Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Beyond Static Models: An Evolving Framework for Continual Learning in Large Language Models across Training Stages

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
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Models

arXiv:2607. 09785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditionally, continual learning has assumed access to labeled data, yet many real-world applications -- such as lifelong robotics -- require models to adapt continuously from unlabeled streams.

By Sergi Masip, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen, Joachim Collin, Bart{\l}omiej Twardowski, Szymon {\L}ukasik, Tinne Tuytelaars
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Hidden Forgetting in Continual Multimodal Learning: When Accuracy Survives but Grounding Fails

arXiv:2607. 02020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models must continually adapt to evolving tasks and domains, yet standard continual learning metrics mainly measure whether old answers remain correct, leaving the stability of multimodal grounding largely unexamined.

By Qianyu Chen, Canran Xiao, Runxuan Tang