The paper introduces a generative continual learning framework that uses growing self‑organizing maps (GSOMs) enhanced with learned distributional statistics and encoder‑decoder models for class‑incremental learning. GSOM units store mean, variance, and covariance estimates to synthesize replay samples, enabling exemplar‑free training without raw data or explicit task boundaries. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that the unsupervised method competes with supervised memory‑based approaches and outperforms memory‑free baselines, especially in single‑class incremental scenarios, and provides baseline results for TinyImageNet and MiniImageNet.
By Pujan Thapa, Alexander Ororbia, Travis Desell
arXiv:2604. 26170v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adapting large language models (LLMs) to a targeted task efficiently and effectively remains a fundamental challenge.
By Ting-Wei Li, Sirui Chen, Jiaru Zou, Yingbing Huang, Tianxin Wei, Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong
arXiv:2610.07008v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to learn novel classes from limited annotations while preserving prior knowledge. Existing methods typ...
By Junhui Yin, Yuchen Yang, Yilin Yin, Shuai Na, Haoran Xi, Jianhua Yang, Muyi Sun, Man Zhang, Shengfeng He
arXiv:2606. 07488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized virtual heart simulations face challenges in model personalization and computational cost.
By Ryan Missel, Xiajun Jiang, Linwei Wang
The paper introduces a Fisher-guided submodular data selection method for continual pre‑training of large language models, addressing the forgetting problem that arises when a target‑domain corpus overwrites pretrained knowledge. By decomposing candidate gradients into anchor and frontier components and optimizing a log‑determinant submodular objective, the method selects data that both improves target‑domain performance and limits forgetting. Experiments on TinyLlama‑1.1B and Llama‑3.1‑8B show that the selector achieves superior adaptation and forgetting control while using ten times fewer tokens than traditional replay strategies.
By Zhenghao Zhao, Gaowen Liu, Zhiling Lan, Yan Yan
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