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Lifelong Imitation Learning with Multimodal Latent Replay and Incremental Adjustment

arXiv 2603.10929 ↗First posted 11 Mar 2026cs.CV cs.ROcited by 1

On the map: Offline RL and imitation learning from data → Robot manipulation imitation learning

Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce a lifelong imitation learning framework that enables continual policy refinement across sequential tasks under realistic memory and data constraints. Our approach departs from conventional experience replay by operating entirely in a multimodal latent space, where compact representations of visual, linguistic, and robot's state information are stored and reused to support future learning. To further stabilize adaptation, we introduce an incremental feature adjustment mechanism that regularizes the evolution of task embeddings through an angular margin constraint, preserving inter-task distinctiveness. Our method establishes a new state of the art in the LIBERO benchmarks, achieving 10-17 point gains in AUC and up to 65% less forgetting compared to previous leading methods. Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of each component, showing consistent gains over alternative strategies. The code is available at: https://github.com/yfqi/lifelong_mlr_ifa.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Robot manipulation imitation learning, one of 13 directions in Offline RL and imitation learning from data. Builds on 24 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 11 Mar 2026.

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  1. 2025A Survey on Imitation Learning for Contact-Rich Tasks in Robotics16 Jun
  2. 2024Incremental Learning of Retrievable Skills For Efficient Continual Task Adaptation30 Oct
  3. 2024M2Distill: Multi-Modal Distillation for Lifelong Imitation Learning30 Sep
  4. 2023LOTUS: Continual Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation Through Unsupervised Skill Discovery3 Nov
  5. 2023TAIL: Task-specific Adapters for Imitation Learning with Large Pretrained Models9 Oct
  6. 2022BC-Z: Zero-Shot Task Generalization with Robotic Imitation Learning4 Feb
  7. 2021Bottom-Up Skill Discovery from Unsegmented Demonstrations for Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation28 Sep
  8. 2021CRIL: Continual Robot Imitation Learning via Generative and Prediction Model17 Jun

Other references · 16

  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,456
  2. 2023GPT-4 Technical Reportcited by 18,132
  3. 2018UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reductioncited by 2,841
  4. 2017FiLM: Visual Reasoning with a General Conditioning Layercited by 2,286
  5. 2023LIBERO: Benchmarking Knowledge Transfer for Lifelong Robot Learningcited by 1,338
  6. 2017Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networkscited by 359
  7. 2023Scaling Down to Scale Up: A Guide to Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuningcited by 171
  8. 2023A Survey of Imitation Learning: Algorithms, Recent Developments, and Challengescited by 145
  9. 2020Language-Conditioned Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation Taskscited by 136
  10. 2018Don't forget, there is more than forgetting: new metrics for Continual Learningcited by 113
  11. 2024Towards Lifelong Learning of Large Language Models: A Surveycited by 60
  12. 2021Imitation Learning: Progress, Taxonomies and Challengescited by 56
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  1. 2024Class-Incremental Learning with CLIP: Adaptive Representation Adjustment and Parameter Fusioncited by 47
  2. 2025Robotic Visual Instructioncited by 21
  3. 2025Think Small, Act Big: Primitive Prompt Learning for Lifelong Robot Manipulationcited by 13
  4. 2025Dynamic Mixture of Progressive Parameter-Efficient Expert Library for Lifelong Robot Learningcited by 8

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  1. 2025T2S: Tokenized Skill Scaling for Lifelong Imitation Learning
  2. 2026SPREAD: Subspace Representation Distillation for Lifelong Imitation Learning
  3. 2026Does Continual Imitation Learning Remain Grounded? A Language-Perturbed Benchmark for Robotic Task Retention
  4. 2025SPECI: Skill Prompts based Hierarchical Continual Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation
  5. 2026RIFAR: Reliability and Forgetting-Aware Replay for Continual Robot Learning
  6. 2026Can Vision-Language-Action Models Learn from Real-World Data Continually without Forgetting?
  7. 2026Pretrained Vision-Language-Action Models are Surprisingly Resistant to Forgetting in Continual Learning
  8. 2022Learning and Retrieval from Prior Data for Skill-based Imitation Learning