{
  "id": 181,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05609v1",
  "title": "To Retain or to Adapt? Generalizing Continual Learning",
  "summary": "The Continual Learning (CL) literature has long been driven by the goal of mitigating catastrophic forgetting. This objective rests on a pervasive, often unstated assumption: that a lifelong learner should approximate the Joint-Task Learning (JTL) solution and retain all previously acquired knowledge. We challenge this retention-centered premise, arguing that in non-stationary environments prioritizing retention can impede real-time adaptation. Shifting the focus to the Average Lifelong Error (A",
  "authors": "Giulia Lanzillotta, Mandana Samiei, Doina Precup, Razvan Pascanu, Claire Vernade",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-06T20:11:53.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T14:14:19.971Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/181",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05609v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}