arXiv:2606. 26183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building a generalist robot that can leverage prior knowledge for continuous task adaptation remains a significant challenge.
By Zhihao Gu, Lin Wang
arXiv:2606. 03598v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable success in language-conditioned robotic manipulation.
By Ziyang Chen, Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo, Qianyi Cai, He Zhang, Pengteng Li, Yiren Zhao, Yandong Guo
Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL) is an agent-centered architecture that transforms a few successful demonstrations into reusable Skill Blocks, enabling a robot to compose, execute, and revise behaviors in new scenes without task-specific policy retraining. The system maintains a Skill Library and structured Experience Memory to capture successes, failures, and repairs, allowing persistent reuse and agent-directed adaptation. Evaluation on the LIBERO benchmark shows state-of-the-art performance, and the authors propose a scaling-law hypothesis suggesting that accumulated reusable experience reduces future-task error and teaching demand following a power-law trend.
By Chang Nie, Zhe Liu, Hesheng Wang
The paper introduces a compositional continual learning benchmark for world models in robot manipulation, designed to isolate knowledge reuse from learning speed and capacity. Tasks are curated to combine previously seen action and perception components, allowing analysis of how different modalities affect reuse. Experiments show that modular world models better balance reuse and forgetting than conventional methods, yet none fully solve the challenge, highlighting the need for models explicitly built to reuse knowledge without forgetting.
By Haoyu Zhou, Joe Watson, Anson Lei, Ingmar Posner
arXiv:2601. 19897v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning, enabling models to acquire new skills and knowledge without degrading existing capabilities, remains a fundamental challenge for foundation models.
By Idan Shenfeld, Mehul Damani, Jonas H\"ubotter, Pulkit Agrawal
arXiv:2604. 15414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning must balance retention with adaptation, yet many methods still rely on \emph{single-model preservation}, committing to one evolving policy as the main reusable solution across tasks.
By Lute Lillo, Nick Cheney
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. 19589v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained Vision-Language-Action models provide a strong foundation for robot learning, but sequentially adapting them to diverse skills can perturb the representations and velocity mappings used by previous skills, leading to catastrophic forgetting.
By Jiaqi Wang, Zhou Fang, Qiongfeng Shi, Yi Zhou
arXiv:2606. 00880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning aims to produce agents that learn not only to improve at their current tasks but also to adapt as task distributions change.
By Purab Seth, Neil Shah, Kunal Jha, Samuel J. Gershman, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Wilka Carvalho
arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.
By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters
arXiv:2510. 12363v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The pretraining-finetuning paradigm has facilitated numerous transformative advancements in artificial intelligence research in recent years.
By Jiale Fan, Andrei Cramariuc, Tifanny Portela, Marco Hutter
Continual learning, the ability to learn from sequential experience while retaining and adapting prior knowledge, is central to intelligent systems operating in changing environments. However, convent...