Accepted Papers

Oral Presentations

  1. The Geometry of Forgetting: A Fisher-Information Framework for Alignment-Preserving Continual Adaptation

    Soham Batra · Siddharth Karuturi · Kaustubh Bukkapatnam · Laksh Patel

  2. Aligning Language Models from User Interactions

    Thomas Kleine Buening · Jonas Hübötter · Barna Pasztor · Idan Shenfeld · Giorgia Ramponi · Andreas Krause

  3. Fast-weight Product Key Memory

    Tianyu Zhao · Llion Jones

  4. Is Our Benchmark Enough? An Analysis of Continual Learning for MLLMs

    Van-Tuan Tran · Shruthi Gowda · Merim Dzaferagic · Marco Ruffini

  5. Merging Adapted Models via Data-Free Covariance Estimation

    Marawan Gamal · Derek Tam · Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo · Colin Raffel · Guillaume Rabusseau

  6. On the Importance of Trivial Baselines: Re-evaluating LoRA Adapter Transfer for Generative Tasks

    Andreas Hochlehnert · Danni Liu · Jan Niehues · Shankar Kumar · Felix Stahlberg

  7. Sparse structured matrices: Efficient adapter rank in fine-tuning Foundation models

    An Nguyen · Anh Tong

Poster Presentations

  1. Listen, Look, and Learn: Learning Without Forgetting through SAM-Audio

    AVI GUPTA · Nilotpal Sinha · Vishnu Raj · Sambuddha Saha · Pratik Joshi · Koteswar Rao Jerripothula · Tammam Tillo

  2. Externalizing Plasticity: Zero-Update Continual Learning via Symbolic Memories

    Manojshyaam C J

  3. Semantic Grouping with Dual-Strategy Distributional Rehearsal for Continual Learning

    Khoa Le Nho · Hồ X Hùng · Thanh Hai Dang · Duc-Trong Le · Quynh-Trang Pham Thi

  4. SPA: A Simple but Tough-to-Beat Baseline for Knowledge Injection

    Kexian Tang · Jiani Wang · Shaowen Wang · Kaifeng Lyu

  5. Audit Before You Merge: Provenance, Probing, and Continual LoRA Composition

    Lenny Aharon · Neta Glazer · Lior Aharon

  6. Staged Continual Adaptation of Multimodal Foundation Models for Japanese Financial Documents

    Genshin Kakimoto · Atsushi Yanagisawa

  7. REPO: Detoxifying LLMs via Representation Erasure-based Preference Optimization

    Naz Sepahvand · Eleni Triantafillou · Hugo Larochelle · Doina Precup · Daniel Roy · Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

  8. Subspace Optimization for Backpropagation-Free Continual Test-Time Adaptation

    Damian Sójka · Sebastian Cygert · Marc Masana

  9. Hard-First: Entropy-Guided Curriculum Distillation Balances Transfer and Preservation in Biomedical Vision-Language Models

    Junseob Kim · Sunil Hwang · Mehak Arora · Rishikesan Kamaleswaran

  10. Functional Task Networks: Cortex-Inspired Spatial Parameter Isolation for Continual Learning

    Kevin L McKee · Yicong Zheng · Zacharie Bugaud · Thomas Miconi

  11. Can Large Language Models Keep Up? Benchmarking Online Adaptation to Continual Knowledge Streams

    Jiyeon Kim · Hyunji Lee · Dylan Zhou · Sue H Park · Seunghyun Yoon · Trung Bui · Franck Dernoncourt · Sungmin Cha · Minjoon Seo

  12. Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual RL via Certified Alignment

    Maksim Anisimov · Matthew Wicker · Francesco Belardinelli

  13. DECAF: De-Clustering for Adaptive Representational Unlearning

    Anjie Le · Can Peng · Hongcheng Guo · J. A Noble

  14. On-Policy Adaptation Mitigates Hyperparameter-Sensitive Forgetting in Vision-Language Models

    Doyoon Kim · Ziyang Wu · Jingfeng Yang · Yi Ma

  15. Test-Time Training for Visual Foresight Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sangwu Park · Wonjoong Kim · Yeonjun In · Sein Kim · HongSeok Kang · Chanyoung Park

  16. Machine Studying: A System-Level Reframing of Continual Adaptation from Declarative Corpora

    Jacob Xiaochen Li · Rick Battle · Omar Khattab

  17. Mechanistic origins of catastrophic forgetting: why RL preserves circuits better than SFT?

    Jeanmely R Nunez · Viraj V Sawant · Nathan Allen · Nomgondalai Amgalanbaatar · Yannis Zongo · Kevin Zhu · Maheep Chaudhary

  18. Early Data Exposure Improves Robustness to Subsequent Fine-Tuning

    Lawrence Feng · Gaurav Ghosal · Jacob Mitchell Springer · Ziqian Zhong · Aditi Raghunathan

  19. Rotation-Preserving Supervised Fine-Tuning

    Hangzhan Jin · Tianwei Ni · Lu Li · Pierre-Luc Bacon · Mohammad Hamdaqa · Doina Precup

  20. Characterizing Plastic Regions in Neural Networks

    Gwyneth Liu · Nir Shavit · Linghao Kong

  21. Continual Learning of Physical Systems via Derivative Distillation

    Claudia Gentili · Alessandro Trenta · Andrea Cossu · Davide Bacciu

  22. MeMo: Memory as a Model

    Ryan Wei Heng Quek · Sanghyuk Lee · Alfred Leong · Arun Verma · Alok Prakash · Nancy Chen · Bryan Kian Hsiang Low · Daniela Rus · Armando Solar-Lezama

  23. Tell Me What To Learn: Generalizing Neural Memory to be Controllable in Natural Language

    Max S Bennett · Tom Zollo · Richard Zemel

  24. Orthogonal Mixture-of-Expert Low-Rank Adapter for Continual Learning

    Zhuoran Xie · Shichun Yang · Xu Mohan · Qingyun Ye · Jiong Ding · Chen rui · Fan Zhou

  25. AV-CTTA: Audio-Visual Continual Test-Time Adaptation without Forgetting

    Sarthak Kumar Maharana · Akshay Mehra · Bhavya Ramakrishna · Yunhui Guo · Guan-Ming Su

  26. Route, Reuse, Repurpose: Continual Adaptation of LLMs with Bounded Adapter Pools

    Bilge Celik · Anna Vettoruzzo · Joaquin Vanschoren

  27. A loss curvature account of fine-tuning fragility

    Ivaylo Dimitrov · Leo Karoubi · Sunny Howard · Dmitrii Krasheninnikov

  28. Continual Knowledge Updating in LLM Systems: Learning Through Multi-Timescale Memory Dynamics

    Andreas Pattichis · Constantine Dovrolis

  29. Organized Plasticity for Cost-Bounded Continual Adaptation

    Yourim Choi · Subeom Park · Reeahn Kim · Hyung-Sin Kim

  30. TIMEGATE: Sustainable Time-Boxed Promotion Gates for Continual ML Adaptation Under Resource Constraints

    Abhijit Chakraborty · Suddhasvatta Das · Yash Shah · Vivek Gupta · Kevin A Gary

  31. Calibrated Target-Aware Data Selection for Continual Mid-Training in Streams

    Ke Wan · Tianyi Zhao · Tianhao Huang · Guanghui Min · Chen Chen

  32. Factor Imbalance and Plasticity Loss in Low-Rank Factorized Networks

    Seungwon Oh · KyungJoong Kim

  33. Quantifying Subliminal Behavioral Transfer Ratios in Language Model Distillation

    Uwe König · Hamza Kazmi · Ruizhe Li · Maheep Chaudhary

  34. RA-LoRA: Rank-Adaptive Low-Rank Adaptation via Subspace Interference Measurement for Continual Fine-Tuning of Foundation Models

    Kaustubh Bukkapatnam · Siddharth Karuturi

  35. Experience-Guided Behavior Adaptation for Large Language Models

    Iknoor Singh · Harjot Singh · Abhishek Tripathi · Niresh Agarwal · Murat Sensoy

  36. Catastrophic Forgetting is Low-Rank: A Function-Space Theory for Continual Adaptation

    Ido Nitzan Hidekel · Dan Raviv

  37. Measurement Plasticity: Sensor-Level Adaptation for Vision–Language Models

    Boyeong Im · Wooseok Lee · Yoojin Kwon · Hyung-Sin Kim

  38. Selective Memory Retention for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

    Pranath Reddy Kumbam

  39. Provable Forgetting Bounds Drive Capacity Savings: Spectral Thresholding in Continual LoRA

    Louis Barinka · Giulia Lanzillotta · Enis Simsar · Tanguy Dieudonné · Thomas Hofmann

  40. RepSelect: Robust LLM Unlearning via Representational Selectivity

    Filip Sondej · Yushi Yang · Adam Mahdi

  41. Continual Causal Refinement: Learning from Sequential Perturbation Data

    Masayuki Nagai · Alan Murphy · Peter Koo

  42. Beyond Classification: Continual Learning for Multimodal Retrieval

    Alicja Dobrzeniecka · Filip Szatkowski · Sebastian Cygert · Szymon Lukasik · Bartłomiej Twardowski