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: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:2506. 10355v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many real-world applications collect data in a streaming environment, where learning tasks are encountered sequentially.
By Yu-Yang Qian, Yuan-Ze Xu, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Peng Zhao, Zhi-Hua Zhou
arXiv:2411. 16073v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inspired by the Well-initialized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (WLTH), we introduce Soft-TransFormers (Soft-TF), a continual learning framework that adapts a frozen pre-trained Transformer through task-specific soft subnetworks: real-valued multiplicative masks over the query, key, value, and output projections of selected self-attention layers.
By Haeyong Kang, Chang D. Yoo
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
Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn new concepts consistently from a data stream without forgetting. Unlike typical CIL methods which need to learn a model from scratch, pre-trained model (PTM) can easily adapt to a new task with fine-tuning.
arXiv:2511. 11421v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to continually learn new categories without forgetting previously acquired knowledge.
By Lan Li, Tao Hu, Da-Wei Zhou, Jia-Qi Yang, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan Zhan
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:2607. 23837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models generalize well to individual tasks but lack an inherent mechanism for learning them sequentially, leading to catastrophic forgetting.
By Reza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Giulia Pedrielli, Pavan Turaga, Hassan Ghasemzadeh
arXiv:2606. 28117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become the standard tool for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large pretrained models.
By Tanguy Dieudonn\'e, Giulia Lanzillotta, Enis Simsar, Louis Barinka, Thomas Hofmann
arXiv:2606. 07500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is hindered by the plasticity-stability dilemma, where acquiring new capabilities often leads to catastrophic forgetting of previous knowledge.
By Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Tanwi Mallick, Ali Jannesari
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