The paper introduces Restoring without Forgetting (RwF), a continual learning framework for image restoration that handles multiple degradations sequentially without accessing prior data. RwF trains a lightweight adapter for each new degradation, uses an unsupervised routing mechanism to select the correct restoration path, and achieves significant PSNR gains over fine‑tuning on five benchmark degradation domains. The method also demonstrates strong transfer performance on eleven real‑degradation datasets with high routing accuracy.
arXiv:2606. 28112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Degradation-aware prompts, conditions, and latent priors are increasingly used in image restoration, yet they are usually judged by a single endpoint: whether the restored image obtains higher PSNR.
arXiv:2608.30305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Image restoration models are typically trained with a fixed set of capabilities. When new restoration requirements emerge, existing solutions usually t...
arXiv:2510.21175v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization, enabling deployment in a wide range...
arXiv:2609.38591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adapting image restoration models to a stream of new tasks without revisiting past data remains challenging due to catastrophic forgetting. In this wor...
arXiv:2608. 20141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: All-in-One Image Restoration (AiOIR) aims to handle diverse degradations within a unified model.
arXiv:2604. 22407v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many continual-learning methods modify gradients upstream (e.
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.
arXiv:2607. 17944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce CMP (Cognitive Memory Primitive), an architecture that represents inputs as sparse relational codes, stores them in a two-tier competitive memory, and learns entirely through local, gradient-free updates, with no backpropagation anywhere in the network.
The paper investigates continual machine unlearning, where models must forget data over time. It identifies a fundamental issue called plasticity collapse, where successive unlearning requests cause geometric constraints that saturate parameter space, leading to two failure modes: forward failure (reduced forgetting quality) and backward failure (re‑memorization). Experiments across architectures and datasets confirm that plasticity collapse is a pervasive problem in continual unlearning.
EvoKnow is a replay‑free framework for continual AI‑generated image detection that treats forensic knowledge as evolving. It keeps a shared forensic basis from base domains, adds isolated residual experts for new generators, and uses an Analytical Incremental Router (AIR) updated in closed form from current‑stage data and accumulated statistics. Experiments show strong cross‑generator generalization, few‑shot expansion, and low forgetting, achieving 96.70% accuracy on non‑base generators and 96.32% mean stage‑wise accuracy under a strict replay‑free protocol.
arXiv:2607. 12112v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across distributed networks enables privacy-sensitive adaptation to evolving data streams, yet a fundamental obstacle prevents robust deployment in dynamic environments: catastrophic forgetting, wherein sequential task updates erase previously acquired knowledge across visual, linguistic, and cross-modal representations.
arXiv:2512. 02657v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world deployment of text-to-image diffusion models requires continual concept removal as new privacy, copyright, or safety obligations arise over time.