Plasticity loss has emerged as a critical challenge in continual learning that significantly hinders the acquisition of sequential tasks. While optimizing activation designs offers a potential solution, current fixed-form functions suffer from an inherent spectral bias towards low-frequency variations, whereas learnable variants permit unconstrained updates that induce catastrophic forgetting.
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:2606. 08452v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many real-world settings, data streams are nonstationary and arrive sequentially, requiring learning systems to adapt continuously without retraining from scratch.
By Nazreen Shah, Govinda Arya, Bharath B. N., Ranjitha Prasad
arXiv:2608. 01475v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks that can grow or both grow and shrink during learning, referred to as growing neural networks and elastic neural networks, respectively, have recently been explored in offline continual learning with a particular focus on catastrophic forgetting.
By Jeong Min Kong, Richard S. Sutton
arXiv:2606. 09762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual training of deep neural networks under non-stationarity often leads to a progressive loss of plasticity, eventually limiting further learning.
By Andries Rosseau, Robert M\"uller, Ann Now\'e
arXiv:2607. 26523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CMP (Cognitive Memory Primitive), a continual-learning architecture that repre?
By Ashmith Atmuri, Yashaswini Rao Bhogarajula
arXiv:2607. 09202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning commonly relies on post-hoc mechanisms such as replay, elastic regularization, or distillation.
By Julius St\"ork
arXiv:2608. 11690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning must absorb new tasks without erasing old ones, and replay---mixing a small buffer of past examples into current training---is among the most effective remedies for catastrophic forgetting.
By Tieliang Gong, Zhongbo Zhang, Wen Wen, Yong-Jin Liu
arXiv:2603. 10046v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wearable sensors in Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems increasingly support applications such as remote health monitoring, elderly care, and smart home automation, all of which rely on robust human activity recognition (HAR).
By Reza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Mohit Malu, Edison Thomaz, Giulia Pedrielli, Pavan Turaga, Hassan Ghasemzadeh
Continual training of deep neural networks under non-stationarity often leads to a progressive loss of plasticity, eventually limiting further learning. We relate plasticity to the empirical Neural Tangent Kernel, and identify dynamical isometry (the condition that layer-wise Jacobian singular values remain close to one) as a key mechanism for preserving plasticity in continual learning.
arXiv:2607. 13432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Plasticity -- a neural network's ability to adapt to new tasks -- is critical for continual and transfer learning.
By Jiaxuan Cheng
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