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CE$^4$L: Continual Ego, Exo, and Ego-Exo Learning

Hongwei Yan, Kanglei Zhou, Yuchen Liu, Qingyu Shi, Yi Zhong, Liyuan Wang

arxiv Score 15.3

Published 2026-09-20 · First seen 2026-09-22

Research Track A · General AI

Abstract

Perception for embodied agents is video-based, often multi-view (ego, exo, or both), and inherently continual, with simultaneous task and viewpoint shifts. Yet continual learning (CL) remains dominated by exo-only recognition tasks, obscuring behavior under these real-world coupled shifts. We introduce Continual Ego, E}xo, and Ego-Exo Learning (CE$^4$L), a unified multi-view CL benchmark spanning four representative tasks: cross-view referenced skill assessment, temporal action segmentation, cross-view association, and action anticipation & planning. CE$^4$L highlights challenges largely absent in prior CL benchmarks, including cross-view correspondence, view-dependent asynchrony, and heterogeneous semantic objectives. To this end, we propose Video Incremental Subspace-routed Task Adapters (VISTA), a parameter-efficient baseline method that stores task-specific updates in lightweight adapters and performs training-free routing via residual distance to task-specific whitened subspaces estimated from second-order statistics. Extensive experiments demonstrate the significantly varied efficacy of representative CL methods across CE$^4$L settings, while VISTA is consistently competitive and achieves state-of-the-art overall performance. Our source code for benchmarks and methods is available at https://github.com/AnAppleCore/CE4L .

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@article{yan2026ce,
  title = {CE\$\textasciicircum{}4\$L: Continual Ego, Exo, and Ego-Exo Learning},
  author = {Hongwei Yan and Kanglei Zhou and Yuchen Liu and Qingyu Shi and Yi Zhong and Liyuan Wang},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Perception for embodied agents is video-based, often multi-view (ego, exo, or both), and inherently continual, with simultaneous task and viewpoint shifts. Yet continual learning (CL) remains dominated by exo-only recognition tasks, obscuring behavior under these real-world coupled shifts. We introduce Continual Ego, E\}xo, and Ego-Exo Learning (CE\$\textasciicircum{}4\$L), a unified multi-view CL benchmark spanning four representative tasks: cross-view referenced skill assessment, temporal action segmentation, cro},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23492},
  keywords = {cs.CV, cs.AI},
  eprint = {2609.23492},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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