arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 23

NADS: Navigator-Guided Data Selection for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Fine-Tuning

NADS (Navigator‑Guided Data Selection) is a fine‑tuning framework for large language models that mitigates catastrophic forgetting when the original pretraining data are unavailable. It first trains a navigator model without preservation regularization to detect capability drift, then scores synthetic data candidates using the predictive divergence between the navigator and the pretrained model. Finally, it selects a diverse, utility‑aware subset of synthetic data and fine‑tunes while distilling pretrained behavior, achieving a better balance between new‑task performance and general capability preservation with reduced selection overhead.

By Jianhao Zhang, Ou Wu, Yi Du
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15

Inference-Time Machine Unlearning via Gated Activation Redirection

arXiv:2605. 12765v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models memorize vast amounts of training data, raising concerns regarding privacy, copyright infringement, and safety.

By Vin\'icius Conte Turani, Ot\'avio Parraga, Jo\~ao Vitor Boer Abitante, Kristen K. Arguello, Joana Pasquali, Ramiro N. Barros, Flavio du Pin Calmon, Christian Mattjie, Rodrigo C. Barros, Lucas S. Kupssinsk\"u
arXiv AI
Jul 15

Continual Learning with Elastic Regularization and Synthetic Replay for Federated MLLM Fine-Tuning

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.

By Jing Liu, Chenxuanyin Zou, Jiayang Ren, Gaoyun Fang, Chengfang Li, Yan Wang, Zhenchao Ma, Bo Hu
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Beyond Discrete Samples: High Information Density Replay for Efficient Lifelong Person Re-Identification

The paper introduces HiDeR, a High Information Density Replay framework for Lifelong Person Re-Identification that replaces discrete sample selection with information compression. It uses a complexity‑aware memory allocation based on intra‑class variance and a metric‑guided condensation objective to preserve essential identity topologies, while a cross‑modality adaptation strategy bridges synthetic and real styles to improve training. Experiments show HiDeR outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods in knowledge retention and generalization, and reduces cumulative replay cost.

By Mingyu Wang, Wei Jiang, Haojie Liu, Zhiyong Li, Weijie Mao