arXiv AI
Aug 13
Representation Finetuning for Continual Learning
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.
Task-Anchored Representation Shaping for Pre-Trained Model-Based Continual Learning
arXiv:2608. 16345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-trained models (PTMs) provide a strong foundation for continual learning by offering stable representations that facilitate lightweight adaptation to new tasks.
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Continual Learning Mechanisms Compose for Long-Horizon Memorization
arXiv:2609.06986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models may need to internalize information that arrives over time and retain it through many subsequent updates. To study this challenge, we i...
arXiv Machine Learning
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CLARE: Scalable Class-Incremental Continual Learning via a Sparsity-Based Framework
arXiv:2609.17026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning must balance the learning of new knowledge with the retention of previously learned knowledge to incrementally learn tasks from a da...
arXiv AI
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Sparse Subspace-to-Expert Sharing for Task-Agnostic Continual Learning
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
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One Adapter, Many Tasks: Task-Conditioned Feature Transformations for Continual Learning
arXiv:2608.31096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class-incremental learning (CIL) requires a model to incrementally learn tasks that contain new classes without accessing earlier training data while...
arXiv Machine Learning
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When Does Continual Learning Require Learning
arXiv:2607. 07847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable, the next question is how can we enable models to continually learn?
arXiv AI
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CP-MoE: Consistency-Preserving Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Learning
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).
arXiv AI
Jun 10
GRID: Scaling Task-Agnostic Inference in Continual Prompt Tuning
arXiv:2507. 14725v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Prompt-based continual learning (CL) offers a parameter-efficient way to adapt large language models (LLMs) across task sequences.
arXiv AI
Sep 7
MePo++: Unifying Representation Refinement and Reconciliation for General Continual Learning
MePo++ is a post‑training framework designed for general continual learning (GCL) that unifies representation refinement and reconciliation. It introduces MetaPrep, which enhances representation plasticity via unsupervised meta‑refinement on pseudo continual sequences, and StreamAlign, which maintains stability by reconciling online features with a stable pretrained geometry. Experiments across various pretrained models, datasets, and continual learning baselines show that MePo++ consistently improves performance in PTM‑based GCL.
arXiv AI
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Forgetting, plasticity, and co-observation: a third facet of continual learning
The paper argues that catastrophic forgetting and loss of plasticity alone cannot explain why naive sequential training underperforms offline joint training. It introduces data co-observation as a third factor, showing that observing training data together consistently improves performance across supervised and self-supervised settings. The study also reinterprets common continual learning methods, suggesting that memory replay’s success stems from restoring co-observation benefits rather than merely mitigating forgetting.
arXiv AI
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Estimating and Orthogonalizing Unknown Pre-training Gradients for Continual Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
The paper introduces EoupCT, a framework that estimates and orthogonalizes unknown pre‑training gradients to mitigate catastrophic forgetting during continual fine‑tuning of large language models. It generates pseudo data most susceptible to forgetting using a learnable soft prompt with Gumbel‑Softmax, then jointly optimizes model parameters and the prompt via a first‑order Pareto optimizer to enforce orthogonality between new task updates and the estimated gradients. Experiments on multiple LLMs show that EoupCT preserves both task‑specific performance and the models’ inherent general‑purpose knowledge.
arXiv Machine Learning
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RL Forgets! Towards Continual Policy Optimization
arXiv:2607. 04364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual post-training is becoming a central paradigm for adapting vision-language models to evolving tasks.