Adapt Before Continual Learning

Aojun Lu; Tao Feng; Hangjie Yuan; Chunhui Ding; Yanan Sun

AAAI 2026technical0 citations

Adapt Before Continual Learning

Aojun Lu, Tao Feng, Hangjie Yuan, Chunhui Ding, Yanan Sun

Abstract

Continual Learning (CL) seeks to enable neural networks to incrementally acquire new knowledge (plasticity) while retaining existing knowledge (stability). Although pre-trained models (PTMs) have provided a strong foundation for CL, existing approaches face a fundamental challenge in balancing these two competing objectives. Current methods typically address stability by freezing the PTM backbone, which severely limits the model

BibTeX

@inproceedings{aaai2026_adaptbeforeconti,
  title = {Adapt Before Continual Learning},
  author = {Aojun Lu and Tao Feng and Hangjie Yuan and Chunhui Ding and Yanan Sun},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}