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
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
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: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:2607. 26947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) rely on a projector to align visual representations with the language embedding space, making it central to cross-modal understanding.
By Duzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Qiaoyi Su, Jiahua Dong, Tielin Zhang
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
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
arXiv:2604. 21927v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning (CL) studies how models acquire tasks sequentially while retaining previously learned knowledge.
By Paul-Tiberiu Iordache, Elena Burceanu
arXiv:2608. 04548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language model (MLLM) unlearning methods have been proposed to remove private, sensitive, or proprietary information from well-trained models.
By Yuhang Wang, Linlin Zhang, Haoxuan Ji, Xianmin Ye, Zhenxing Niu, Haichang Gao
arXiv:2607. 20511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning (MCIT) is crucial for adapting Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to evolving a sequence of downstream tasks.
By Keonhee Park, Gunhee Kim
arXiv:2508. 04227v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs), spanning predictive architectures to generative Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have revolutionized artificial intelligence through powerful cross-modal alignment and zero-shot generalization.
By Yuyang Liu, Qiuhe Hong, Linlan Huang, Alexandra Gomez-Villa, Dipam Goswami, Tiantian Peng, Xialei Liu, Joost van de Weijer, Yonghong Tian
arXiv:2606. 02461v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language agents spend substantial inference time solving individual tasks, yet the experience acquired in one episode is often underutilized in future episodes.
By Yiheng Shu, Bernal Jim\'enez Guti\'errez, Saisri Padmaja Jonnalagedda, Yuguang Yao, Huan Sun, Yu Su