arXiv Machine Learning

Mitigating the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma in Adaptive Train Scheduling with Curriculum-Driven Continual DQN Expansion

arXiv AI
Aug 7

Continual Learning in Transition

arXiv:2608. 06216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical continual learning (CL) has primarily focused on enabling models to update and retain knowledge through parameter-centric mechanisms, e.

By Zhiyan Hou, Dan Zhang, Tao Feng, Liyuan Wang, Wei Li, Xiangzhao Hao, Hongyan An, Junfeng Fang, Haokai Ma, Zhaohui Xu, Haiyun Guo, Jinqiao Wang, Tat-Seng Chua
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Harness Continual Learning: Continual Adaptation Beyond Model Parameters

The paper introduces Harness Continual Learning (HCL), a paradigm where an agent’s state evolves through prompts, memories, tools, skills, and routing rules while keeping the underlying foundation model frozen. HCL defines harness-level forgetting and proposes a guarded evolution process involving a Continual Optimizer and Evaluator to ensure improvements without losing prior behavior. Experiments across textual reasoning, multimodal perception, and open‑world interaction show over 10% performance gains and demonstrate how the stability–plasticity trade‑off can be explicitly tuned.

By Borui Kang, Jinrui Gu, Junhan Lv, Wenbin Li, Lei Wang, Yang Gao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

Harness Continual Learning: Continual Adaptation Beyond Model Parameters

The paper introduces Harness Continual Learning (HCL), a paradigm where an agent’s state evolves through prompts, memories, tools, skills, and routing rules while keeping the foundation model frozen. HCL defines harness-level forgetting and proposes guarded harness evolution with a Continual Optimizer and Evaluator to balance improvement, retention, and validity. Experiments across textual reasoning, multimodal perception, and open‑world interaction show over 10% performance gains and demonstrate explicit control over the stability–plasticity trade‑off.

arXiv AI
Aug 25

Continual Uncertainty Learning for Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems with Multiple Heterogeneous Uncertainties

The paper introduces Continual Uncertainty Learning (CUL), a curriculum-based continual learning framework that decomposes robust control of nonlinear systems with multiple heterogeneous uncertainties into a sequence of tasks. By progressively expanding and diversifying plant uncertainties and applying memory-efficient anti-forgetting regularization, CUL enables a policy to acquire strategies for each uncertainty sequentially while a model-based controller provides a shared baseline performance. Applied to an active vibration controller for automotive powertrains, the approach demonstrates robustness to structural nonlinearities and dynamic variations, improving control performance and sample efficiency.

By Heisei Yonezawa, Ansei Yonezawa, Itsuro Kajiwara
arXiv AI
Sep 15

HarnessBandit: Joint Learnability-Transferability Scheduling for Multi-Harness Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2609.13739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language-model agents are increasingly deployed through diverse harnesses that differ in system prompts, tool schemas, control loops, and trajectory...

By Hongliang Wei (Harbin Institute of Technology, Alibaba Cloud), Xiaobing Tu (Alibaba Cloud), Yinggui Wang (Alibaba Cloud), Zhengxi Liu (Alibaba Cloud), Rongkun Xue (Alibaba Cloud), Jinkui Ren (Alibaba Cloud), Xiantao Zhang (Alibaba Cloud), Debin Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiaopeng Fan (Harbin Institute of Technology)