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A Bellman Optimality Equation for Plasticity
Sep 11, 2026Jeremy Lucas, Doina PrecupPlasticity Bellman Equation
TASTE: Throughput-Aware Batch Size Tuning for On-Device Edge Learning
Sep 7, 2026Avik Bhatnagar, Federico Nicolas Peccia, Oliver BringmannBatch Size Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Methods
Constitutive State-Space Modeling of Path-Dependent Plasticity: A Resolution-Consistent and Parallelizable Computational Framework
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SELECT: SELEctive Context Transfer for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation
Aug 31, 2026Avi Gupta, Saurabh Yadav, Koteswar Rao Jerripothula +1Clip-Based Class-Incremental Learning Transferable Knowledge
Mycelial Search: A Graph-Structured Metaheuristic for Continuous Optimisation
Aug 24, 2026Mohammad Mahdi DehshibiMetaheuristics Joint Optimization
Behavioral Reprogramming of Open-Weights Models: Cognitive Plasticity and Alignment Bounds
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BPG: Balancing Plasticity and Generalization for Domain Incremental Learning
Aug 11, 2026Qiang Wang, Songlin Dong, Shaokun Wang +5Clip-Based Class-Incremental Learning Parameter-Efficient Adaptation
An active-learning framework for real-time depth perception from monocular vision streams
Aug 5, 2026Xiaorong Zeng, Weiqiang Chen, Peng Shi +4Depth Estimation Active Learning
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Aug 5, 2026Yousef Abdi, Mohammad Asadpour, Yousef SeyfariClip-Based Class-Incremental Learning Semi-Supervised Learning
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Aug 5, 2026Seyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung +2Efficient Continual Learning Plasticity
Plasticity of Growing and Elastic Neural Networks in Online Continual Learning
Aug 2, 2026Jeong Min Kong, Richard S. SuttonPlasticity Efficient Continual Learning
The Kinetics of Training: A Driven-Nucleation Rate Law for Emergence, Plasticity Loss, and Circuit Control in Language Models
Jul 29, 2026Lei DongTrainable Parameter Circuits
Calibrated Partial Resets: Preventing Policy Collapse in Continual Reinforcement Learning
Jul 27, 2026Luc McCutcheon, Evangelos Chatzaroulas, Saber FallahEfficient Continual Learning Plasticity
Continual-RL for Generalization in Autonomous Racing on the RoboRacer Platform
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Learning to Access Computation: Accessibility Plasticity as a Principle of Adaptive Intelligence
Jul 23, 2026Zhaowen FanPlasticity Neural Dynamics
PRIME: Plasticity Recovery in Multi-Agent Environments for UAV-Assisted Emergency Communication Networks
Jul 20, 2026Wen Qiu, Zhiqiang He, Wei Zhao +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Plasticity
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Jul 16, 2026Yao He, Gan Sun, Wenqi Liang +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-Actions Robotic Manipulation
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Jun 30, 2026Guanchen Lu, Yajuan Dun, Yi Zhou +4Stochastic Exploration Plasticity
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Stagnant Neuron: Towards Understanding the Plasticity Loss in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Value Factorization Methods
Jun 24, 2026Zhengzhu Liu, Zeming Gao, Haoyuan Qin +7Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Plasticity
Adaptive Hebbian Memory Routing in Vision Transformers for Few-Shot Learning
Jun 23, 2026Mohammed Yusuf Mujawar, Noorbakhsh Amiri GolilarzFew-Shot Learning Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
Can Scale Save Us From Plasticity Loss in Large Language Models?
Jun 23, 2026J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia, Tomás Figliolia, Beren MillidgePlasticity Artificial Neural Networks
Parallel Manifold Steering: Efficient Adaptation of Large Associative Memories via Residual Energy Shaping
Jun 23, 2026Kanishk AwadhiyaSelf-Attention Mechanism Associative Memory
Distilling a Modular Reservoir Through a Genomic Bottleneck
Jun 20, 2026Mani Hamidi, Sina Khajehabdollahi, Charley M. Wu +1Reservoir Computing Recurrent Neural Networks
Provably Sub-Linear Two-Timescale NeuroEvolution with Online Plasticity
Jun 18, 2026Shishen Lin, Yixin ChenNeural Control Learning-Augmented Algorithms
Hybrid ANN-SNN Pipeline with Local Plasticity
Jun 18, 2026Denis Larionov, Khairutin Shtanchaev, Mikhail Kiselev +2Spiking Neural Networks Binary Spikes
Physics-Informed Discovery of Yield Functions in Plasticity via Convex Neural Representations
Jun 12, 2026Hyeonbin Moon, Donghyuk Cho, Jecheon Yu +2Continuum Dynamics Physics-Informed Deep Learning
MOSAIC: Modality-Specific Adaptation for Incremental Continual Learning in Parkinson's Disease Gait Assessment
Jun 11, 2026Minlin Zeng, Zhipeng Zhou, Yang Qiu +2Parkinson Gait Recognition
Predictive Assistance and the Temporal Dynamics of Exploratory Compression
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Preserving Plasticity in Continual Learning via Dynamical Isometry
Jun 8, 2026Andries Rosseau, Robert Müller, Ann NowéPlasticity Efficient Continual Learning
When RL Fails after SFT: Rejuvenating Model Plasticity for Robust SFT-to-RL Handoff
Jun 7, 2026Runze Liu, Jiashun Liu, Xu Wan +2Supervised Fine-Tuning Plasticity
Theoretical Foundations of Continual Learning via Drift-Plus-Penalty
Jun 7, 2026Nazreen Shah, Govinda Arya, Bharath B. N. +1Efficient Continual Learning Continual Learning
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Jun 5, 2026Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Tanwi Mallick +1Efficient Continual Learning Continual Learning
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Jun 2, 2026Amogh Inamdar, Matthew So, Vici Milenia +1Efficient Continual Learning Continual Learning
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Jun 1, 2026Mourad ZaiedBatch Normalization Deep Neural Network
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Jun 1, 2026Snigdha Chandan KhilarContinual Learning Plasticity
PEFT-Arena: Understanding Parameter-Efficient Finetuning from a Stability-Plasticity Perspective
May 27, 2026Yangyi Huang, Ruotian Peng, Zeju Qiu +4Unseen-Task Adaptation Plasticity
Janus-LoRA: A Balanced Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual Learning
May 27, 2026Cheng Chen, Pengpeng Zeng, Yuyu Guo +3Efficient Continual Learning Continual Learning
Energy-Structured Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual Learning
May 26, 2026Longhua Li, Lei Qi, Qi Tian +1Efficient Continual Learning Continual Learning
Architecture-driven Shift: towards a lightweight selector for capturing the trends of logit shift
May 26, 2026Zhong Ye, Yu Hu, Ruilin TangLogit Lens Domain Shift
Balancing Plasticity and Stability with Fast and Slow Successor Features
May 25, 2026Raymond Chua, Doina Precup, Blake RichardsPlasticity Safe Reinforcement Learning
Scalable Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Batch Scaling
May 20, 2026Jongchan ParkBatch Size Plasticity
Normative Networks for Source Separation via Local Plasticity and Dendritic Computation
May 19, 2026Bariscan Bozkurt, Efe Ali Gorguner, Francesco Innocenti +1Neural Model Source Separation
Reconfigurable Nonlinear Photonic Networks for In-Situ Learning and Memory Formation via Driven-Dissipative Dynamics
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On the Stability of Growth in Structural Plasticity
May 14, 2026Lute Lillo, Nick CheneyPlasticity Magnitude-Based Pruning
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May 14, 2026Alessio Caviglia, Filippo Marostica, Roberta Bardini +2Spiking Neural Networks Sequential Learning
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May 14, 2026Oubo Ma, Ruixiao Lin, Yang Dai +4Backdoor Attacks Safe Reinforcement Learning
MoRe: Modular Representations for Principled Continual Representation Learning on Sequential Data
May 14, 2026Jiaqi Sun, Boyang Sun, Rasmy M. H. +2Efficient Continual Learning Continual Learning
Predicting Plasticity in Deep Continual Learning: A Theoretical Perspective
May 9, 2026Jiuqi Wang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Claire Chen +3Plasticity Efficient Continual Learning
Political Plasticity: An Analysis of Ideological Adaptability in Large Language Models
May 8, 2026Bruno Bianchi, Diego Tiscornia, Matias Travizano +1Large Language Model Bias Ideology
DIMoE-Adapters: Dynamic Expert Evolution for Continual Learning in Vision-Language Models
May 8, 2026Mengxin Qin, Xiang Zhang, Xi Wang +3Vision-Language Model Adaptation Continual Learning
Attribution-Based Neuron Utility for Plasticity Restoration in Deep Networks
May 7, 2026Patrick Elisii, Lucas Beauchemin, Dawer JamshedEfficient Continual Learning Plasticity
Priming, Path-dependence, and Plasticity: Understanding the molding of user-LLM interaction and its implications from (many) chat logs in the wild
May 7, 2026Shengqi Zhu, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, David MimnoInteraction Patterns Chatbots
Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Sequentially Trained Early-Exiting Neural Networks
May 6, 2026Alaa Zniber, Ouassim Karrakchou, Mounir GhoghoPlasticity Efficient Continual Learning

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A Bellman Optimality Equation for Plasticity

Jeremy Lucas, Doina Precup

In continual reinforcement learning, carefully managing the stability-plasticity tradeoff remains a core challenge. Recent work by Abel et al. (2025) formalized this dilemma by defining plasticity as the generalized directed information from an agent's observations to its actions, and empowerment as the generalized directed information from its actions to its observations. This formulation successfully reframes the traditional stability-plasticity tradeoff as an empowerment-plasticity tradeoff. However, while extensive literature exists on optimizing for empowerment, there is currently no research addressing the optimization of plasticity under this new definition. This paper presents preliminary work toward optimizing plasticity within Markov decision processes. We show that there exists a Bellman optimality equation for optimizing plasticity similar to previous work for empowerment.

Plasticity Bellman Equation Markov Decision Processes Safe Reinforcement Learning

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