CLEAN (Continual Learning with Expandable and Architecturally Isolated Networks) is an incremental cognitive diagnosis framework that allows the concept space to grow while guaranteeing that historical diagnoses remain unchanged. It achieves this by freezing past diagnostic functions, applying orthogonal column masking to prevent gradient interference, and adding expandable full‑rank branches with micro‑variance initialization for new concepts. Experiments on three large‑scale educational datasets show that CLEAN attains zero Representation Drift, preserving old‑item metrics exactly while performing competitively on new items.
arXiv:2608.30316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing class-incremental learning methods struggle in multi-label scenarios (MLCIL) due to the inherent contradiction of learning objectives arising...
arXiv:2610.10379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning requires models to adapt to new domains and new classes while retaining prior knowledge. Many existing methods rely on continued opt...
arXiv:2606. 06032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting is commonly interpreted as the irreversible erasure of previously acquired knowledge during sequential learning.
arXiv:2606. 05675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) seeks models that acquire new skills without erasing prior knowledge.
Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn new concepts consistently from a data stream without forgetting. Unlike typical CIL methods which need to learn a model from scratch, pre-trained model (PTM) can easily adapt to a new task with fine-tuning.
arXiv:2511. 08226v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In order to achieve Continual Learning (CL), the problem of catastrophic forgetting, one that has plagued neural networks since their inception, must be overcome.
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:2508. 04227v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs), spanning predictive architectures to generative Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), have revolutionized artificial intelligence through powerful cross-modal alignment and zero-shot generalization.
arXiv:2510. 16077v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Domain Incremental Learning (DIL) is a sub-branch of continual learning that aims to address the never-ending arrival of new domains without catastrophic forgetting.
The paper demonstrates that off‑policy merging, called grafting, outperforms on‑policy self‑distillation for continual learning. Grafting learns updates on an earlier donor checkpoint, scales the update, and optionally masks sensitive directions, thereby reducing interference with existing capabilities. Across various continual learning scenarios, grafting achieves better new‑task and old‑task performance without costly on‑policy sampling.
arXiv:2606. 04797v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Custom diffusion models (CDMs) have garnered significant interest owing to their remarkable capacity for generating personalized concepts.
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.