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most citedA continual learning survey: Defying forgetting in classification tasks

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cs.CV2026

Visual Grounding First, Multimodal In-context Learning Follows

Minhyuk Seo, Minjae Lee, Chaeeun Lee +4

LLMs have shown strong in-context learning (ICL) capability, but extending it to Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) remains challenging. Prior multimodal ICL methods often rely on ICL-specifi…

cs.LG2026

Forgetting, plasticity, and co-observation: a third facet of continual learning

Timm Hess, Abhishek Jha, Gido M. van de Ven +1

Efficient continual learning remains a fundamental challenge for deep neural networks. While catastrophic forgetting and loss of plasticity are widely considered the primary obstac…

cs.CV2026

Learning visual representations for compositional analysis of artworks and photographs

Fatemeh Behrad, Tinne Tuytelaars, Johan Wagemans

Composition, the deliberate arrangement of visual elements, is central to how meaning, emotion, and aesthetic quality are conveyed in artwork, yet it remains among the least formal…

cs.RO2026

DemoBridge: A Simulation-in-the-Loop Toolkit for Single-View Human Demonstration Retargeting

Zehao Wang, Fabien Despinoy, Sergey Zakharov +2

We present DemoBridge, an toolkit that turns a single-view RGB stereo recording of a human hand demonstration into an executable, physics-validated robot-arm trajectory. Retargetin…

cs.CV2026

Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Models

Sergi Masip, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen +4

Traditionally, continual learning has assumed access to labeled data, yet many real-world applications -- such as lifelong robotics -- require models to adapt continuously from unl…

cs.AI2026

FF-JEPA: Long-Horizon Planning in World Models with Latent Planners

Sergi Masip, Jonathan Swinnen, Yutong Hu +2

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have shown promising world modeling capabilities, enabling planning in latent space by optimizing action trajectories using methods…

cs.LG2026

Multivariate Distributional Reinforcement Learning Using Sliced Divergences

Baptiste Debes, Tinne Tuytelaars

Distributional reinforcement learning (DRL) models the full return distribution rather than expectations, but extending it to multivariate settings remains challenging. Many common…

cs.CV2026

Remembering by Reconstructing: Domain Incremental Learning With Test-Time Training on Video Streams

Jonathan Swinnen, Tinne Tuytelaars

In this work we introduce a novel approach to domain incremental learning, adapting models over time to evolving, non-stationary data. In contrast to other works, we do not attempt…

eess.SP2026

Eccentricity Confound in EEG-based Visual Attention Decoding from Gaze-Fixated Neural Tracking of Motion in Natural Videos

Yuanyuan Yao, Celina Salamanca Gonzalez, Simon Geirnaert +3

Objective. Decoding visual attention from brain signals during naturalistic video viewing has emerged as a new direction in brain-computer interface research. Current methods assum…

cs.CV2026

Project and Mix: Task-Semantic Prototypes for Few-Shot Image Classification

Dipam Goswami, Simone Magistri, Gido M. van de Ven +4

Vision-language models like CLIP are trained with the objective of aligning text and image pairs. Beyond text prompts alone, recent works show that exploiting few-shot image embedd…

cs.CV2026

Classifying Novel 3D-Printed Objects without Retraining: Towards Post-Production Automation in Additive Manufacturing

Fanis Mathioulakis, Gorjan Radevski, Silke GC Cleuren +4

Reliable classification of 3D-printed objects is essential for automating post-production workflows in industrial additive manufacturing. Despite extensive automation in other stag…

cs.LG2026

Distributional value gradients for stochastic environments

Baptiste Debes, Tinne Tuytelaars

Gradient-regularized value learning methods improve sample efficiency by leveraging learned models of transition dynamics and rewards to estimate return gradients. However, existin…

cs.LG2026

Position: Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning Agents

Vaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov +21

Foundation models have transformed machine learning through large-scale pretraining and increased test-time compute. Despite surpassing human performance in several domains, these…

eess.SP2026

Sample-level EEG-based Selective Auditory Attention Decoding with Markov Switching Models

Yuanyuan Yao, Simon Geirnaert, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Selective auditory attention decoding aims to identify the speaker of interest from listeners' neural signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG), in the presence of multiple con…

cs.CV2026

Self-Supervised Learning with a Multi-Task Latent Space Objective

Pierre-François De Plaen, Abhishek Jha, Luc Van Gool +2

We propose a multi-task formulation of self-predictive Siamese SSL in which each spatial transformation defines a distinct latent-space alignment task, solved by a dedicated predic…

cs.LG2026

Putting a Face to Forgetting: Continual Learning meets Mechanistic Interpretability

Sergi Masip, Gido M. van de Ven, Javier Ferrando +1

Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning is often measured at the performance or last-layer representation level, overlooking the underlying mechanisms. We introduce a mechani…

cs.CL2026

NewsRECON: News Article Retrieval for Image Contextualization

Jonathan Tonglet, Iryna Gurevych, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Identifying when and where a news image was taken is crucial for journalists and forensic experts to produce credible stories and debunk misinformation. While many existing methods…

cs.CV2025

Eff-GRot: Efficient and Generalizable Rotation Estimation with Transformers

Fanis Mathioulakis, Gorjan Radevski, Tinne Tuytelaars

We introduce Eff-GRot, an approach for efficient and generalizable rotation estimation from RGB images. Given a query image and a set of reference images with known orientations, o…

cs.CV2025

When normalization hallucinates: unseen risks in AI-powered whole slide image processing

Karel Moens, Matthew B. Blaschko, Tinne Tuytelaars +3

Whole slide image (WSI) normalization remains a vital preprocessing step in computational pathology. Increasingly driven by deep learning, these models learn to approximate data di…

cs.CV2025

PEO: Training-Free Aesthetic Quality Enhancement in Pre-Trained Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Prompt Embedding Optimization

Hovhannes Margaryan, Bo Wan, Tinne Tuytelaars

This paper introduces a novel approach to aesthetic quality improvement in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models when given a simple prompt. Our method, dubbed Prompt Embeddin…

cs.GR2025

Spec-Gloss Surfels and Normal-Diffuse Priors for Relightable Glossy Objects

Georgios Kouros, Minye Wu, Tinne Tuytelaars

Accurate reconstruction and relighting of glossy objects remains a longstanding challenge, as object shape, material properties, and illumination are inherently difficult to disent…

eess.SP2025

Efficient Solutions for Mitigating Initialization Bias in Unsupervised Self-Adaptive Auditory Attention Decoding

Yuanyuan Yao, Simon Geirnaert, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Decoding the attended speaker in a multi-speaker environment from electroencephalography (EEG) has attracted growing interest in recent years, with neuro-steered hearing devices as…

cs.CL2025

Is this chart lying to me? Automating the detection of misleading visualizations

Jonathan Tonglet, Jan Zimny, Tinne Tuytelaars +1

Misleading visualizations are a potent driver of misinformation on social media and the web. By violating chart design principles, they distort data and lead readers to draw inaccu…

cs.CV2025

Forgetting of task-specific knowledge in model merging-based continual learning

Timm Hess, Gido M van de Ven, Tinne Tuytelaars

This paper investigates the linear merging of models in the context of continual learning (CL). Using controlled visual cues in computer vision experiments, we demonstrate that mer…