arXiv Machine Learning

Turning Back Without Forgetting: Selective Backward Refinement for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning

arXiv:2606. 01379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While prompt-based parameter-efficient continual learning mitigates catastrophic forgetting by isolating task-specific prompts, this isolation also limits later tasks from improving earlier ones, leaving backward knowledge transfer underexplored.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 20

Rethinking Transfer in Continual Learning: A Replay-Based Realisation

arXiv:2607. 15587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning studies how deployed language models can continually acquire new tasks without expensive retraining from scratch.

By Yang Meng, Zhenya Liu, Zhuokai Zhao, Yuxin Chen

llms efficiency

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 13

Drift and Dependence: Layer-wise Information-Theoretic Bounds for Replay-Based Continual Learning

arXiv:2608. 11690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning must absorb new tasks without erasing old ones, and replay---mixing a small buffer of past examples into current training---is among the most effective remedies for catastrophic forgetting.

By Tieliang Gong, Zhongbo Zhang, Wen Wen, Yong-Jin Liu

benchmarks safety

arXiv Machine Learning

Sep 23

Information-Theoretic Decoupled Prompt Tuning for Continual Learning

arXiv:2609.26257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) aims to incrementally acquire knowledge from sequential data while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. Recently, prompt tuning ha...

By Yunfei Zhang, Wen Wen, Tieliang Gong, Weizhan Zhang

benchmarks safety

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 10

When Does Continual Learning Require Learning

arXiv:2607. 07847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable, the next question is how can we enable models to continually learn?

By Anne Harrington, Nayan Saxena, Michael Murphy, Anastasia Borovykh, Zeyu Yun, Sridhar Kamath, Ara Eindra Kyi, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik, Yutong Bai

llms agents reinforcement-learning fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 30

The Art of Not Forgetting A Local Learning Architecture for Continual Learning

arXiv:2607. 26523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CMP (Cognitive Memory Primitive), a continual-learning architecture that repre?

By Ashmith Atmuri, Yashaswini Rao Bhogarajula

llms benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 14

Attribution-Guided Continual Learning for Large Language Models

arXiv:2605. 05285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often suffer from catastrophic forgetting in continual learning: after learning new tasks sequentially, they perform worse on earlier tasks.

By Yazheng Liu, Yuxuan Wan, Rui Xu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie, Hui Xiong

llms fine-tuning

arXiv Machine Learning

Sep 15

Realistic Continual Learning Approach using Pre-trained Models

arXiv:2404.07729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning (CL) evaluates adaptability in learning solutions to retain knowledge. Our research addresses the challenge of catastrophic forg...

By Nadia Nasri, Carlos Guti\'errez-\'Alvarez, Sergio Lafuente-Arroyo, Saturnino Maldonado-Basc\'on, Roberto J. L\'opez-Sastre

benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 12

ARROW: Augmented Replay for RObust World models

arXiv:2603. 11395v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning challenges agents to acquire new skills while retaining previously learned ones with the goal of improving performance in both past and future tasks.

By Abdulaziz Alyahya, Abdallah Al Siyabi, Markus R. Ernst, Luke Yang, Levin Kuhlmann, Gideon Kowadlo

agents reinforcement-learning

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 7

RL Forgets! Towards Continual Policy Optimization

arXiv:2607. 04364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual post-training is becoming a central paradigm for adapting vision-language models to evolving tasks.

By Mao-Lin Luo, Zhe-Xu Wang, Zi-Hao Zhou, Bo Ye, Jian Zhao, Min-Ling Zhang, Tong Wei

llms reinforcement-learning fine-tuning multimodal benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

2d ago

ReSCENE: Server-Side Replay for Structural Mitigation of Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Continual Learning

arXiv:2609.38833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated continual learning must integrate new tasks over time without losing earlier-task knowledge. Most existing methods attach an anti-forgetting...

By Sungmin Kang, Zhengzhong Tu, Sunwoo Lee

arXiv Machine Learning

Sep 16

CLARE: Scalable Class-Incremental Continual Learning via a Sparsity-Based Framework

arXiv:2609.17026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning must balance the learning of new knowledge with the retention of previously learned knowledge to incrementally learn tasks from a da...

By Yunxiang Fu, Meng Lou, Zicheng Liao, Yizhou Yu

fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

Theoretical Foundations of Continual Learning via Drift-Plus-Penalty

arXiv:2606. 08452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many real-world settings, data streams are nonstationary and arrive sequentially, requiring learning systems to adapt continuously without retraining from scratch.

By Nazreen Shah, Govinda Arya, Bharath B. N., Ranjitha Prasad

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