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Class-incremental learning (CIL) is typically evaluated under predefined schedules with equal-sized tasks, leaving more realistic and complex cases unexplored. However, a practical CIL system should learns immediately when any number of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhiming Xu , Baile Xu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen , Suorong Yang

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces dual challenges of data scarcity and incremental learning in real-world scenarios. While pool-based prompting methods have demonstrated success in traditional incremental learning, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yongwei Jiang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

We consider class incremental learning (CIL) problem, in which a learning agent continuously learns new classes from incrementally arriving training data batches and aims to predict well on all the classes learned so far. The main challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hongjoon Ahn , Jihwan Kwak , Subin Lim , Hyeonsu Bang , Hyojun Kim , Taesup Moon

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in object recognition tasks through the availability of large scale datasets like ImageNet. However, deep learning systems suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning incrementally without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially learn new classes while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Conventional CIL approaches implicitly assume that classes are morphologically static,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zheng Zhang , Tao Hu , Xueheng Li , Yang Wang , Rui Li , Jie Zhang , Chengjun Xie

The ability to continuously expand knowledge over time and utilize it to rapidly generalize to new tasks is a key feature of human linguistic intelligence. Existing models that pursue rapid generalization to new tasks (e.g., few-shot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Xisen Jin , Bill Yuchen Lin , Mohammad Rostami , Xiang Ren

Existing Class Incremental Learning (CIL) methods are based on a supervised classification framework sensitive to data labels. When updating them based on the new class data, they suffer from catastrophic forgetting: the model cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zixuan Ni , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Few-shot learning aims to recognize novel classes from a few examples. Although significant progress has been made in the image domain, few-shot video classification is relatively unexplored. We argue that previous methods underestimate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yongqin Xian , Bruno Korbar , Matthijs Douze , Lorenzo Torresani , Bernt Schiele , Zeynep Akata

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to develop a learning system that can continually learn new classes from a data stream without forgetting previously learned classes. When learning classes incrementally, the classifier must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Minqian Liu , Lifu Huang

The dynamic expansion architecture is becoming popular in class incremental learning, mainly due to its advantages in alleviating catastrophic forgetting. However, task confusion is not well assessed within this framework, e.g., the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Bingchen Huang , Zhineng Chen , Peng Zhou , Jiayin Chen , Zuxuan Wu

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

Modern computer vision applications suffer from catastrophic forgetting when incrementally learning new concepts over time. The most successful approaches to alleviate this forgetting require extensive replay of previously seen data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 James Smith , Yen-Chang Hsu , Jonathan Balloch , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Zsolt Kira

When learning new tasks in a sequential manner, deep neural networks tend to forget tasks that they previously learned, a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting. Class incremental learning methods aim to address this problem by keeping a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jinlin Xiang , Eli Shlizerman

Many deep learning applications, like keyword spotting, require the incorporation of new concepts (classes) over time, referred to as Class Incremental Learning (CIL). The major challenge in CIL is catastrophic forgetting, i.e., preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Dong Ma , Chi Ian Tang , Cecilia Mascolo

Instance-incremental learning (IIL) focuses on learning continually with data of the same classes. Compared to class-incremental learning (CIL), the IIL is seldom explored because IIL suffers less from catastrophic forgetting (CF). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Qiang Nie , Weifu Fu , Yuhuan Lin , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Lei Zhu , Chengjie Wang

Human intelligence gradually accepts new information and accumulates knowledge throughout the lifespan. However, deep learning models suffer from a catastrophic forgetting phenomenon, where they forget previous knowledge when acquiring new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jisu Han , Jaemin Na , Wonjun Hwang

Unsupervised video class incremental learning (uVCIL) represents an important learning paradigm for learning video information without forgetting, and without considering any data labels. Prior approaches have focused on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Nattapong Kurpukdee , Adrian G. Bors

Continual learning aims to acquire new knowledge while retaining past information. Class-incremental learning (CIL) presents a challenging scenario where classes are introduced sequentially. For video data, the task becomes more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Chern Hong Lim , John See , Xing Gao , Junhui Hou , Weiyao Lin

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Fault Diagnosis (FSC-FD), which aims to continuously learn from new fault classes with only a few samples without forgetting old ones, is critical for real-world industrial systems. However, this challenging task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhendong Yang , Jie Wang , Liansong Zong , Xiaorong Liu , Quan Qian , Shiqian Chen

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with a few training examples. While recent works have shown that standard mini-batch training with a carefully designed training strategy can improve generalization ability for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jin-Woo Seo , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee