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: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.
By Zhiming Xu, Huiyu Yi, Zhen-Hao Xie, Baile Xu, Furao Shen, Jian Zhao, Suorong Yang
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: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:2601. 13020v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual instruction tuning (CIT) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to adapt to a stream of tasks without forgetting prior capabilities.
By Zhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma, Yandu Sun, Yonghui Yang, Jinqiao Wang
arXiv:2606. 26629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weight-space regularization methods such as Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC) are the standard approach to catastrophic forgetting in continual learning.
By Evan Ning, Wei Xue, Dong Lou, Yike Guo
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:2511. 06237v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enabling lifelong learning in LLMs demands resolving the stability-plasticity dilemma (i.
By Haeyong Kang, Hee Suk Yoon, Dahua Feng, Chang D. Yoo
arXiv:2511. 20892v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often produce incorrect or outdated content after being employed.
By Xuyuan Liu, Shengyu Chen, Xinshuai Dong, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao, Haoyu Wang, Yujun Yan, Haifeng Chen, Zhengzhang Chen
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?
By Anne Harrington, Nayan Saxena, Michael Murphy, Anastasia Borovykh, Zeyu Yun, Sridhar Kamath, Ara Eindra Kyi, Trevor Darrell, Jitendra Malik, Yutong Bai
arXiv:2606. 10338v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning is increasingly important for large language models, yet unlearning in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures remains underexplored.
By Jingyi Xie, Yijun Lin, Yinjiang Xiong, Zhikun Zhang, Sai Li
arXiv:2605. 05285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often suffer from catastrophic forgetting in continual learning: after learning new tasks sequentially, they perform worse on earlier tasks.
By Yazheng Liu, Yuxuan Wan, Rui Xu, Xi Zhang, Sihong Xie, Hui Xiong