arXiv:2606. 05695v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) aims to acquire new classes over time without storing raw data.
By Hongye Xu, Bartosz Krawczyk
arXiv:2607. 22994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Class-incremental learning (CIL) requires models to continuously acquire new knowledge while avoiding catastrophic forgetting.
By Tao Zhang, Qixuan Fan, Yiyuan Liang, Yanjie Wang, Song Yan, Tian Tian, Jiahuan Zhou, Luxin Yan, Sheng Zhong, Xu Zou
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.
By Guanglong Sun, Kanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang, Qi Cheng, Hongwei Yan, Shuang Cui, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Yi Zhong
arXiv:2608.31096v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Class-incremental learning (CIL) requires a model to incrementally learn tasks that contain new classes without accessing earlier training data while...
By Yunxiang Fu, Meng Lou, Yizhou Yu
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.
By Yuyang Liu, Qiuhe Hong, Linlan Huang, Alexandra Gomez-Villa, Dipam Goswami, Tiantian Peng, Xialei Liu, Joost van de Weijer, Yonghong Tian
The paper investigates whether a model that has undergone class unlearning can still recover forgotten classes without access to original data. It introduces a white‑box audit method that generates synthetic probes in representation space, filters them by confidence, and relabels boundary‑adjacent probes as the forgotten class. The authors define a Relearning Score to quantify recovery while preserving retain performance, and demonstrate that several unlearning techniques on CIFAR‑10, CIFAR‑100, and TinyImageNet can be fully recovered in a source‑free setting, sometimes even outperforming a retrained reference.
By Zahra Dehghani, Pablo Piantanida, Mohammadhadi Shateri
arXiv:2504.10214v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Pretrained model-based incremental object detection (PTMIOD) leverages the rich detection priors of pretrained detectors to learn new categories in...
By Songze Li, Qixing Xu, Tonghua Su, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhongjie Wang, Yunzhe Li
arXiv:2507. 07754v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine unlearning is usually evaluated by what the classifier outputs: forget-set accuracy, confidence, membership-inference scores.
By Jaeheun Jung, Bosung Jung, Suhyun Bae, Donghun Lee
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.
By Haihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Tommi K\"arkk\"ainen, Huiyan Xue, Zhonghua Chen, Qi Xu, Fengyu Cong
arXiv:2603. 12055v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, yet current approaches adapt to new tasks without explicitly preserving the cross-modal semantic geometry inherited from pretraining and previous stages, allowing new-task supervision to induce geometric distortion.
By Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Runtong Zhang, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
arXiv:2606. 02322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In dynamic environments, large language models need to keep adapting to new tasks, but continual learning often suffers from forgetting, limited transfer, and vulnerability to adversarial perturbations.
By Ran Liu, Min Yu, Mingqi Liu, Jianguo Jiang, Gang Li, Rongsheng Li, Ning Li, Zhen Xu, Weiqing Huang, Ming Liu
arXiv:2411. 16073v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inspired by the Well-initialized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (WLTH), we introduce Soft-TransFormers (Soft-TF), a continual learning framework that adapts a frozen pre-trained Transformer through task-specific soft subnetworks: real-valued multiplicative masks over the query, key, value, and output projections of selected self-attention layers.
By Haeyong Kang, Chang D. Yoo