arXiv Machine Learning

Lifelong In-Context Learning with Transformers Requires Parametric Forms of Attention

arXiv:2606. 25342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Lifelong continual learning remains an obstacle on the path to human-like intelligence.

arXiv AI
Jun 4

MesaNet: Sequence Modeling by Locally Optimal Test-Time Training

arXiv:2506. 05233v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequence modeling is currently dominated by causal transformer architectures that use softmax self-attention.

By Johannes von Oswald, Nino Scherrer, Seijin Kobayashi, Luca Versari, Songlin Yang, Sarthak Mittal, Maximilian Schlegel, Kaitlin Maile, Yanick Schimpf, Oliver Sieberling, Alexander Meulemans, Rif A. Saurous, Guillaume Lajoie, Charlotte Frenkel, Razvan Pascanu, Blaise Ag\"uera y Arcas, Jo\~ao Sacramento
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Position: Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning Agents

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 AI
Jul 22

Soft-TransFormers for Continual Learning

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 AI
Jun 6

Continual Learning Bench: Evaluating Frontier AI Systems in Real-World Stateful Environments

arXiv:2606. 05661v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning, the ability of AI systems to improve through sequential experience, has attracted substantial interest, but no high-quality benchmark exists to evaluate it.

By Parth Asawa, Christopher M. Glaze, Gabriel Orlanski, Ramya Ramakrishnan, Benji Xu, Asim Biswal, Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Kwai Summary Attention Technical Report

arXiv:2604. 24432v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Long-context ability, has become one of the most important iteration direction of next-generation Large Language Models, particularly in semantic understanding/reasoning, code agentic intelligence and recommendation system.

By Chenglong Chu, Guorui Zhou, Guowang Zhang, Han Li, Hao Peng, Hongtao Cheng, Hui Wang, Jian Liang, Jiangxia Cao, Kun Gai, Lingzhi Zhou, Lu Ren, Qi Zhang, Ruiming Tang, Ruitao Wang, Xinchen Luo, Yi Su, Zhiyuan Liang, Ziqi Wang, Boyang Ding, Chengru Song, Dunju Zang, Jiao Ou, Jiaxin Deng, Jijun Shi, Jinghao Zhang, Junmin Chen, Lejian Ren, Minxuan Lv, Qianqian Wang, Qigen Hu, Shiyao Wang, Siyang Mao, Tao Wang, Xingmei Wang, Zhixin Ling, Ziming Li, Zixing Zhang