arXiv:2509. 13211v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The ability to learn continuously over time remains a major challenge for modern machine learning systems, even in the era of Foundation Models.
By Irene Testa, Luigi Quarantiello, Eric Nuertey Coleman, Samrat Mukherjee, Julio Hurtado, Vincenzo Lomonaco
arXiv:2606. 27095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cold-start exemplar-free class-incremental learning requires learning a growing set of classes without replay, external pretraining, or a large initial task.
By Augustinas Ju\v{c}as, Yangchen Pan
arXiv:2504. 13822v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of large pre-trained networks has revolutionized the AI field, unlocking new possibilities and achieving unprecedented performance.
By Eric Nuertey Coleman, Luigi Quarantiello, Ziyue Liu, Qinwen Yang, Samrat Mukherjee, Julio Hurtado, Vincenzo Lomonaco
arXiv:2505. 10457v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Incremental learning is a machine learning paradigm where a model learns from a sequential stream of tasks.
By Matteo Gambella, Manuel Roveri
Dynamic expansion methods for class-incremental learning (CIL) protect task-specific knowledge by growing dedicated tokens or subnetworks, yet our analyses suggest that classification supervision alone does not sufficiently preserve task-agnostic shared backbone representations over long incremental sequences. We identify two intertwined challenges: cross-task confusion from sequential training on predominantly current-task data, which biases decision boundaries toward recent tasks; and under-optimized shared representations in the backbone that cap long-term discriminability as tasks accumulate.
arXiv:2509. 11285v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) in deep neural networks is conventionally framed as an iterative gradient-based optimization problem, incurring high computational cost, hyperparameter sensitivity, and risk of catastrophic forgetting.
By Alejandro Dopico-Castro, Oscar Fontenla-Romero, Bertha Guijarro-Berdi\~nas, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos
arXiv:2607. 09084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid expansion of large-scale AI models has led to significant performance breakthroughs across diverse domains, yet it has also raised critical concerns regarding computational costs, energy consumption, and environmental sustainability.
By Linhui Xiao, Guiping Cao, Mingyue Guo, Xianchao Guan, Fan Yang, Ming Tao, Xin Li, Yuxin Peng, Yaowei Wang
arXiv:2606. 09430v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online task-free continual learning (TFCL) requires intelligent agents to sequentially accumulate knowledge from an unbounded, non-stationary data stream under strict single-pass constraints and without any explicit task identifiers.
By Mingqi Yuan, Xiaoquan Sun, Shihao Luo, Jiayu Chen
arXiv:2603. 01761v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models have transformed machine learning through large-scale pretraining and increased test-time compute.
By Vaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Lucas Caccia, Antonio Carta, Laurent Charlin, Barbara Hammer, Tyler L. Hayes, Timm Hess, Christopher Kanan, Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Xialei Liu, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Jorge Mendez-Mendez, Darshan Patil, Ameya Prabhu, Elisa Ricci, Tinne Tuytelaars, Gido M. van de Ven, Liyuan Wang, Joost van de Weijer, Jonghyun Choi, Martin Mundt, Rahaf Aljundi
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:2607. 29592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The primary challenge of continual learning (CL) systems is to learn new tasks while remaining performant on previously learned tasks.
By Mostafa ElAraby, Samer B. Nashed, Liam Paull
arXiv:2606. 05695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) aims to acquire new classes over time without storing raw data.
By Hongye Xu, Bartosz Krawczyk