Part 1-1

Task-wise Selective Adaptation

Positive backward transferLater stages retrieve the same skills, so updating them lifts earlier tasks: BWT +13.7 / +8.7.

OverallIsCiL reaches 74.0 / 71.2 AUC where the best non-oracle baseline reaches 35.4 / 39.7.

CiL algorithmEvolving KitchenEvolving World
FWT (%)BWT (%)AUC (%)FWT (%)BWT (%)AUC (%)
Pre-trained24.30.0
Sequential adaptationSeq-FT32.7−19.615.741.4−33.012.2
EWC19.3−3.210.418.2−11.68.5
Seq-LoRA32.9−19.914.538.1−30.611.7
Adapter-basedL2M17.5−2.015.826.15.731.4
L2M-g37.5−6.531.033.2−0.633.1
TAIL-g53.2−20.035.451.4−21.432.5
TAIL-τ33.80.033.839.70.039.7
IsCiL (ours)61.813.774.063.28.771.2
OracleMulti-task71.712.683.073.212.684.2

FWTnew tasks of the stageBWTtasks already learnedAUCoverall, across 20 stages