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Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) portrays the problem of learning new concepts gradually, where only a few examples per concept are available to the learner. Due to the limited number of examples for training, the techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , Pengfei Fang , Soumava Kumar Roy , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

Graph class-incremental learning (GCIL) allows graph neural networks (GNNs) to adapt to evolving graph analytical tasks by incrementally learning new class knowledge while retaining knowledge of old classes. Existing GCIL methods primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jiazhen Chen , Zheng Ma , Sichao Fu , Mingbin Feng , Tony S. Wirjanto , Weihua Ou

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) or continual learning is a desired capability in the real world, which requires a learning system to adapt to new tasks without forgetting former ones. While traditional CIL methods focus on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Da-Wei Zhou , Yuanhan Zhang , Yan Wang , Jingyi Ning , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu

In incremental classification tasks for hyperspectral images, catastrophic forgetting is an unavoidable challenge. While memory recall methods can mitigate this issue, they heavily rely on samples from old categories. This paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Songfeng Zhu

Online continual learning for image classification studies the problem of learning to classify images from an online stream of data and tasks, where tasks may include new classes (class incremental) or data nonstationarity (domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Zheda Mai , Ruiwen Li , Jihwan Jeong , David Quispe , Hyunwoo Kim , Scott Sanner

We study class-incremental learning, a training setup in which new classes of data are observed over time for the model to learn from. Despite the straightforward problem formulation, the naive application of classification models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Ahmet Iscen , Thomas Bird , Mathilde Caron , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid

Rehearsal-based techniques are commonly used to mitigate catastrophic forgetting (CF) in Incremental learning (IL). The quality of the exemplars selected is important for this purpose and most methods do not ensure the appropriate diversity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Sahil Nokhwal , Nirman Kumar

Replay-based continual learning (CL) methods assume that models trained on a small subset can also effectively minimize the empirical risk of the complete dataset. These methods maintain a memory buffer that stores a sampled subset of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wenyang Liao , Quanziang Wang , Yichen Wu , Renzhen Wang , Deyu Meng

In this paper, we address the incremental classifier learning problem, which suffers from catastrophic forgetting. The main reason for catastrophic forgetting is that the past data are not available during learning. Typical approaches keep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Yue Wu , Yinpeng Chen , Lijuan Wang , Yuancheng Ye , Zicheng Liu , Yandong Guo , Zhengyou Zhang , Yun Fu

Complementary-label Learning (CLL) is a form of weakly supervised learning that trains an ordinary classifier using only complementary labels, which are the classes that certain instances do not belong to. While existing CLL studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Wei-I Lin , Gang Niu , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Masashi Sugiyama

Class incremental learning (CIL) requires an agent to learn distinct tasks consecutively with knowledge retention against forgetting. Problems impeding the practical applications of CIL methods are twofold: (1) non-i.i.d batch streams and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Junda Wang , Minghui Hu , Ning Li , Abdulaziz Al-Ali , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

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

Incremental learning is useful if an AI agent needs to integrate data from a stream. The problem is non trivial if the agent runs on a limited computational budget and has a bounded memory of past data. In a deep learning approach, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu

Successful continual learning of new knowledge would enable intelligent systems to recognize more and more classes of objects. However, current intelligent systems often fail to correctly recognize previously learned classes of objects when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Changhong Zhong , Zhiying Cui , Ruixuan Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Advances in medical imaging and deep learning have propelled progress in whole slide image (WSI) analysis, with multiple instance learning (MIL) showing promise for efficient and accurate diagnostics. However, conventional MIL models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xianrui Li , Yufei Cui , Jun Li , Antoni B. Chan

Regularization-based methods are beneficial to alleviate the catastrophic forgetting problem in class-incremental learning. With the absence of old task images, they often assume that old knowledge is well preserved if the classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Xiaomeng Xin , Yiran Zhong , Yunzhong Hou , Jinjun Wang , Liang Zheng

Class-incremental fault diagnosis requires a model to adapt to new fault classes while retaining previous knowledge. However, limited research exists for imbalanced and long-tailed data. Extracting discriminative features from few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hanrong Zhang , Yifei Yao , Zixuan Wang , Jiayuan Su , Mengxuan Li , Peng Peng , Hongwei Wang

Non-exemplar class-incremental learning is to recognize both the old and new classes when old class samples cannot be saved. It is a challenging task since representation optimization and feature retention can only be achieved under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Kai Zhu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Jiebo Luo , Zheng-Jun Zha

Class-incremental learning is a challenging problem, where the goal is to train a model that can classify data from an increasing number of classes over time. With the advancement of vision-language pre-trained models such as CLIP, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Linlan Huang , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Xialei Liu

Humans are capable of acquiring new knowledge and transferring learned knowledge into different domains, incurring a small forgetting. The same ability, called Continual Learning, is challenging to achieve when operating with neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jary Pomponi , Alessio Devoto , Simone Scardapane