Re-Evaluating Continual Learning with Few-Shot Adaptation
arXiv:2606. 03843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning methods aim to maximize the stability and plasticity of machine learning models that are trained on a sequence of tasks.
arXiv:2606. 03843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning methods aim to maximize the stability and plasticity of machine learning models that are trained on a sequence of tasks.
Accuracy degradation is the standard metric for Catastrophic Forgetting (CF), however, it records only whether forgetting occurred or not. It saturates at the extremes and collapses discretely at task boundaries, hiding the internal structure of what is being forgotten.
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:2404.07729v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual learning (CL) evaluates adaptability in learning solutions to retain knowledge. Our research addresses the challenge of catastrophic forg...
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.
arXiv:2606. 25165v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accuracy degradation is the standard metric for Catastrophic Forgetting (CF), however, it records only whether forgetting occurred or not.
arXiv:2607. 29592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The primary challenge of continual learning (CL) systems is to learn new tasks while remaining performant on previously learned tasks.
The paper introduces an algorithmic stability framework to analyze catastrophic forgetting in continual learning using SGD, without assuming a specific model architecture. It decomposes forgetting into intra‑task and cross‑task generalization gaps plus empirical forgetting, and derives bounds for different learning‑rate schedules. Experiments on Split CIFAR‑100 and Split MiniImageNet illustrate the theoretical insights.
arXiv:2606. 06032v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Catastrophic forgetting is commonly interpreted as the irreversible erasure of previously acquired knowledge during sequential learning.
CRAFT is a continual learning framework that freezes model weights and learns low‑rank interventions on hidden representations to mitigate catastrophic forgetting. Tasks that are similar share an intervention, determined by how they change the model’s output distribution, and a KL penalty keeps new tasks close to existing behavior. The approach also allows task identification at test time without explicit labels and shows improved performance and reduced forgetting across benchmarks compared to LoRA‑based methods.
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 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.