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Although deep learning approaches have stood out in recent years due to their state-of-the-art results, they continue to suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a dramatic decrease in overall performance when training with new classes added…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Francisco M. Castro , Manuel J. Marín-Jiménez , Nicolás Guil , Cordelia Schmid , Karteek Alahari

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

In class-incremental learning (CIL) scenarios, the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting caused by the classifier's bias towards the current task has long posed a significant challenge. It is mainly caused by the characteristic of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Linlan Huang , Xialei Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Class-incremental learning (CIL) enables continuous learning of new classes while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of old ones. For the performance breakthrough of CIL, it is essential yet challenging to effectively refine past knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yuanzhi Su , Siyuan Chen , Yuan-Gen Wang

Class incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize both the old and new classes along the increment tasks. Deep neural networks in CIL suffer from catastrophic forgetting and some approaches rely on saving exemplars from previous tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xiuwei Chen , Xiaobin Chang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) under an exemplar-free constraint has presented a significant challenge. Existing methods adhering to this constraint are prone to catastrophic forgetting, far more so than replay-based techniques that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huiping Zhuang , Run He , Kai Tong , Ziqian Zeng , Cen Chen , Zhiping Lin

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to continuously acquire new classes without forgetting previously learned ones. A dominant paradigm involves freezing a pre-trained model and training lightweight, task-specific adapters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ruiqi Liu , Boyu Diao , Zijia An , Zhulin An , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

We tackle the problem of class incremental learning (CIL) in the realm of landcover classification from optical remote sensing (RS) images in this paper. The paradigm of CIL has recently gained much prominence given the fact that data are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 S Divakar Bhat , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Avik Bhattacharya

New classes arise frequently in our ever-changing world, e.g., emerging topics in social media and new types of products in e-commerce. A model should recognize new classes and meanwhile maintain discriminability over old classes. Under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Da-Wei Zhou , Han-Jia Ye , Liang Ma , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , De-Chuan Zhan

In visual search, the gallery set could be incrementally growing and added to the database in practice. However, existing methods rely on the model trained on the entire dataset, ignoring the continual updating of the model. Besides, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Timmy S. T. Wan , Jun-Cheng Chen , Tzer-Yi Wu , Chu-Song Chen

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

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to acquire new classes over time while retaining prior knowledge, yet most setups and methods assume balanced task streams. In practice, the number of classes per task often varies significantly. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xiaoyan Zhang , Jiangpeng He

Class-incremental learning (CIL) is a particularly challenging variant of continual learning, where the goal is to learn to discriminate between all classes presented in an incremental fashion. Existing approaches often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Michał Zając , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) struggles with catastrophic forgetting when learning new knowledge, and Data-Free CIL (DFCIL) is even more challenging without access to the training data of previously learned classes. Though recent DFCIL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Qiankun Gao , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Zhang

Recent years have witnessed growing interests in online incremental learning. However, there are three major challenges in this area. The first major difficulty is concept drift, that is, the probability distribution in the streaming data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Si-si Zhang , Jian-wei Liu , Xin Zuo

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to continually learn a sequence of tasks, with each task consisting of a set of unique classes. Graph CIL (GCIL) follows the same setting but needs to deal with graph tasks (e.g., node classification in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen , Bing Liu

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to continuously acquire new categories while preserving previously learned knowledge. Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained (CLIP) models have shown strong potential for CIL due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianqi Wang , Jingcai Guo

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are a promising approach to enable Artificial Neural Network (ANN) implementation on ultra-low power edge devices. Such devices may compute data in highly dynamic environments, in which the classes targeted for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yanis Basso-Bert , Anca Molnos , Romain Lemaire , William Guicquero , Antoine Dupret

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) models aim to incrementally learn new classes with scarce samples while preserving knowledge of old ones. Existing FSCIL methods usually fine-tune the entire backbone, leading to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenxi Liu , Zhenyi Wang , Tianyi Xiong , Ruibo Chen , Yihan Wu , Junfeng Guo , Heng Huang

Continual learning is a challenging problem in which models need to be trained on non-stationary data across sequential tasks for class-incremental learning. While previous methods have focused on using either regularization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shentong Mo , Weiguo Pian , Yapeng Tian