arXiv:2607. 15587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning studies how deployed language models can continually acquire new tasks without expensive retraining from scratch.
By Yang Meng, Zhenya Liu, Zhuokai Zhao, Yuxin Chen
arXiv:2603. 11395v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning challenges agents to acquire new skills while retaining previously learned ones with the goal of improving performance in both past and future tasks.
By Abdulaziz Alyahya, Abdallah Al Siyabi, Markus R. Ernst, Luke Yang, Levin Kuhlmann, Gideon Kowadlo
The paper introduces Spaced Repetition Training (SRT), a continual learning framework that adapts review scheduling for language models by using the SM-2 algorithm to decide which past examples to replay. SRT tracks per-example review states and maps perplexity to a recall-quality signal, allowing the model to retain old knowledge while consolidating new information without changing the underlying model or training objective. Experiments on Wikipedia and code corpora show that SRT improves the stability-plasticity trade‑off, recovers 5–37 percentage points of lost accuracy, and maintains benchmark performance better than naive continual pre‑training or uniform replay; similar benefits are observed in vision and tabular data when an appropriate recall signal is used.
The paper introduces Spaced Repetition Training (SRT), a continual learning framework that schedules sample rehearsal using the SM-2 algorithm. SRT tracks per-example review states and maps perplexity to recall quality, allowing the training loop to decide which examples to replay and when. Experiments on Wikipedia and code corpora show that SRT improves the stability‑plasticity trade‑off, recovers 5–37 percentage points of lost old‑knowledge accuracy, and preserves benchmark performance better than naive continual pre‑training or uniform replay.
By Alankar Atreya, Devesh Batra, Yoages Kumar Mantri, Geremy Bantug, Greig A Cowan, Raad Khraishi
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. 00400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual instruction tuning updates a language model through a sequence of new domains, yet each update can progressively erode previously learned capabilities and alignment behavior.
By Ibne Farabi Shihab, Fariya Afrin, Anuj Sharma
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: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:2510. 18874v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adapting language models (LMs) to new tasks via post-training carries the risk of degrading existing capabilities -- a phenomenon classically known as catastrophic forgetting.
By Howard Chen, Noam Razin, Karthik Narasimhan, Danqi Chen
arXiv:2606. 01379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While prompt-based parameter-efficient continual learning mitigates catastrophic forgetting by isolating task-specific prompts, this isolation also limits later tasks from improving earlier ones, leaving backward knowledge transfer underexplored.
By Anushka Tiwari, Kaiyi Ji
arXiv:2607. 04969v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The training paradigm of large language models has shifted from traditional one-pass training to multi-epoch training, as reasonable reuse of limited high-quality data can improve both model performance and sample efficiency.
By Jingwei Zuo, Cong Zeng, Ilyas Chahed, Maksim Velikanov, Dhia Eddine Rhaiem, Pasquale Balsebre, Abhay Kumar, Younes Belkada, Hakim Hacid
arXiv:2606. 08447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: One of the critical limitations of artificial neural networks is their lack of ability to continually learn: training on new tasks often leads to interference and forgetting of the previous ones.
By Anthony Bazhenov, Jean Erik Delanois, Giri P. Krishnan