arXiv:2608. 04358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning (CL) requires models to learn tasks sequentially, yet deep neural networks often suffer from plasticity loss and poor knowledge transfer, which can impede their long-term adaptability.
By Seyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung, Mandana Samiei, Mo Chen
arXiv:2609.37702v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Class Incremental Learning (Class-IL) requires models to learn new classes over time while preserving previously acquired knowledge without access to...
By A. L. S. Conde, Y. Elkhatib, C. M. Ranieri
arXiv:2604. 27031v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In a continual learning setting, we require a model to be plastic enough to learn a new task and stable enough to not disturb previously learned capabilities.
By Karthik Charan Raghunathan, Christian Metzner, Laura Kriener, Melika Payvand
arXiv:2608. 19514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Persistent intelligent systems require the ability to learn continually, but current machine learning approaches face significant challenges in this area compared to biological learning systems.
By Benjamin Smith, Levin Kuhlmann, Kaushik Roy, Gideon Kowadlo
arXiv:2603. 01761v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models have transformed machine learning through large-scale pretraining and increased test-time compute.
By Vaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Lucas Caccia, Antonio Carta, Laurent Charlin, Barbara Hammer, Tyler L. Hayes, Timm Hess, Christopher Kanan, Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Xialei Liu, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Jorge Mendez-Mendez, Darshan Patil, Ameya Prabhu, Elisa Ricci, Tinne Tuytelaars, Gido M. van de Ven, Liyuan Wang, Joost van de Weijer, Jonghyun Choi, Martin Mundt, Rahaf Aljundi
arXiv:2605. 13438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing agent memory remains predominantly reactive and retrieval-based, lacking the capacity to autonomously organize experience into persistent cognitive structure.
By Suli Wang, Yiqun Duan, Yu Deng, Rundong Zhao, Dai Shi, Minghua Deng, Chen Chen, Xinliang Zhou
arXiv:2512. 03627v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite rapid progress in large-scale language and vision models, AI agents still suffer from a fundamental limitation: they cannot remember.
By Junming Liu, Yifei Sun, Weihua Cheng, Haodong Lei, Yirong Chen, Licheng Wen, Xuemeng Yang, Daocheng Fu, Pinlong Cai, Nianchen Deng, Yi Yu, Shuyue Hu, Botian Shi, Ding Wang
arXiv:2603. 25157v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent vision and multimodal foundation backbones, such as Transformer families and state-space models like Mamba, have achieved remarkable progress, enabling unified modeling across images, text, and beyond.
By Jianfeng Wang, Amine M'Charrak, Luk Koska, Xiangtao Wang, Daniel Petriceanu, Ruizhi Wang, Michael Bumbar, Luca Pinchetti, Thomas Lukasiewicz
arXiv:2604. 27707v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current agentic memory systems (vector stores, retrieval-augmented generation, scratchpads, and context-window management) do not implement memory: they implement lookup.
By Binyan Xu, Xilin Dai, Kehuan Zhang
The paper introduces the Continuous Memory Machine (CMM), a recurrent neural network that uses separate matrix-valued short‑term and long‑term memory states. Short‑term memory tracks recent neural activity with neuron‑level models for rapid computation, while long‑term memory stores information for later use; both are jointly updated by a Transformer that allows bidirectional read‑write operations. Experiments on algorithmic, in‑context learning, and recurrent reasoning tasks show that CMM outperforms many baselines and generalizes better than previous memory‑augmented networks, while maintaining interpretable attention patterns from the Continuous Thought Machine.
By Ciaran Regan, Kai Arulkumaran, Luke Darlow, Stefania Druga, Sebastian Risi, Llion Jones
arXiv:2610.19366v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multimodal models and agents have emerged to enable AI systems to learn from and interact with the real world more like humans by integrating informa...
By Minghao Guo, Qingyue Jiao, Xiujin Liu, Jianhong Pang, Ruimeng Yang, Naihao Xu, Liwei Che, Haochen Xue, Ziqi Wang, Xinying Cai, Jiaxuan Luo, Jiaxin Deng, Xuesong Ye, Jintao Qu, Wenyao Gao, Jingwen Gu, Chenyang Zhao, Shichun Liu, Guibin Zhang, Zefang Liu, Siyin Wang, Wujiang Xu, Danrui Li, Zeru Shi, Woongyeong Yeo, Shuang Liu, Wei-Chieh Huang, Weizhi Zhang, Tianyu Yang, Kangsan Kim, Yebowen Hu, Bowen Wen, Bowen Jiang, Haohao Su, Ming Yin, Sheldon Yu, Mian Zhang, Yuyan Chen, Hanrong Zhang, Kai Mei, Zihao Zhang, Mingyu Jin, Xi Zhu, Hengyi Wang, Tianxin Wei, Linyong Nan, Zhenwen Liang, Zhendong Chu, Ziqi Huang, Yongye Su, Sixun Dong, Shujian Liu, Kaiqu Liang, Jiaojiao Han, Zhaoye Fei, Kun Wang, Shihan Dou, Zhichun Guo, Xingjian Diao, Zeqi Gu, Heng Wang, Tao Feng, Cheng Qian, Hamid Palangi, Silei Xu, Xi Yun, Yi Zhu, Shilong Liu, Qingsong Wen, Sung Ju Hwang, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang, Yiyu Shi, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Jiaxuan You, Julian McAuley, Mengdi Wang, Jiawei Han, Philip S. Yu, Ziyi Ye
The paper investigates how multi‑neuromodulatory dynamics—driven by dopamine, acetylcholine, serotonin, and noradrenaline—can improve artificial neural networks’ continuous adaptive learning and mitigate catastrophic forgetting. It demonstrates that neuromodulators interact across multiple spatial and temporal scales, creating a complex many‑to‑many mapping between neuromodulators and tasks. The authors propose neuromodulation‑aware learning rules, architectural formulations, and a conceptual Go/No‑Go study to illustrate how biologically inspired mechanisms can enhance ANN robustness and adaptability.
By Jie Mei, Alejandro Rodriguez-Garcia, Daigo Takeuchi, Gabriel Wainstein, Nina Hubig, Yalda Mohsenzadeh, Srikanth Ramaswamy