arXiv:2604. 15414v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning must balance retention with adaptation, yet many methods still rely on \emph{single-model preservation}, committing to one evolving policy as the main reusable solution across tasks.
By Lute Lillo, Nick Cheney
arXiv:2506. 14990v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmarks play a central role in reinforcement learning (RL) research, yet their computational constraints often shape what is studied.
By Tristan Tomilin, Luka van den Boogaard, Samuel Garcin, Constantin Ruhdorfer, Bram Grooten, Fabrice Kusters, Yali Du, Andreas Bulling, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Meng Fang
arXiv:2607. 04364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual post-training is becoming a central paradigm for adapting vision-language models to evolving tasks.
By Mao-Lin Luo, Zhe-Xu Wang, Zi-Hao Zhou, Bo Ye, Jian Zhao, Min-Ling Zhang, Tong Wei
arXiv:2604. 01499v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evolution Strategies (ES) have emerged as a scalable gradient-free alternative to reinforcement learning based LLM fine-tuning, but it remains unclear whether comparable task performance implies comparable solutions in parameter space.
By William Hoy, Binxu Wang, Xu Pan
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:2603. 11653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is a promising direction toward self-improving embodied agents that can adapt in openended, evolving environments.
By Jiaheng Hu, Jay Shim, Chen Tang, Yoonchang Sung, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Roberto Martin-Martin
arXiv:2607. 09202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual learning commonly relies on post-hoc mechanisms such as replay, elastic regularization, or distillation.
By Julius St\"ork
arXiv:2505. 18347v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning (RL) concerns agents that are expected to learn continually, rather than converge to a policy that is then fixed for evaluation.
By Mohamed A. Mohamed, Kateryna Nekhomiazh, Vedant Vyas, Marcos M. Jose, Andrew Patterson, Marlos C. Machado
arXiv:2506. 01568v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Being able to solve a task in diverse ways makes agents more robust to task variations and less prone to local optima.
By Cornelius V. Braun, Sayantan Auddy, Marc Toussaint
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
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.
By Amogh Inamdar, Matthew So, Vici Milenia, Richard Zemel
arXiv:2607. 17760v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) provides a powerful framework for learning from demonstrations.
By Ziyi Liu, Grace Zhang