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Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning (EFCIL) aims to sequentially learn from distinct categories without retaining exemplars but easily suffers from catastrophic forgetting of learned knowledge. While existing EFCIL methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Run He , Di Fang , Yicheng Xu , Yawen Cui , Ming Li , Cen Chen , Ziqian Zeng , Huiping Zhuang

In the context of continual learning, acquiring new knowledge while maintaining previous knowledge presents a significant challenge. Existing methods often use experience replay techniques that store a small portion of previous task data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Minsu Kim , Seong-Hyeon Hwang , Steven Euijong Whang

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

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

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to produce portable and efficient neural networks which can be well applied on edge devices for computer vision tasks. However, almost all top-performing knowledge distillation methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu , Huiyu Zhou

Given the inherent non-stationarity prevalent in real-world applications, continual Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to equip the agent with the capability to address a series of sequentially presented decision-making tasks. Within this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Feng Chen , Fuguang Han , Cong Guan , Lei Yuan , Zhilong Zhang , Yang Yu , Zongzhang Zhang

Diffusion models excel at generative modeling (e.g., text-to-image) but sampling requires multiple denoising network passes, limiting practicality. Efforts such as progressive distillation or consistency distillation have shown promise by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Risheek Garrepalli , Shweta Mahajan , Munawar Hayat , Fatih Porikli

In real-world clinical settings, traditional deep learning-based classification methods struggle with diagnosing newly introduced disease types because they require samples from all disease classes for offline training. Class incremental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sana Ayromlou , Teresa Tsang , Purang Abolmaesumi , Xiaoxiao Li

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

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a strong zero-shot generalization capability on unseen-domain data. However, adapting pre-trained VLMs to a sequence of downstream tasks often leads to the forgetting of previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yu-Chu Yu , Chi-Pin Huang , Jr-Jen Chen , Kai-Po Chang , Yung-Hsuan Lai , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Algorithm selection is commonly used to predict the best solver from a portfolio per per-instance. In many real scenarios, instances arrive in a stream: new instances become available over time, while the number of class labels can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mate Botond Nemeth , Emma Hart , Kevin Sim , Quentin Renau

Lifelong or continual learning remains to be a challenge for artificial neural network, as it is required to be both stable for preservation of old knowledge and plastic for acquisition of new knowledge. It is common to see previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Song Zhang , Gehui Shen , Jinsong Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng

Incremental learning methods can learn new classes continually by distilling knowledge from the last model (as a teacher model) to the current model (as a student model) in the sequentially learning process. However, these methods cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Longhui Yu , Zhenyu Weng , Yuqing Wang , Yuesheng Zhu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to design machine learning algorithms that can continually learn new concepts from a few data points, without forgetting knowledge of old classes. The difficulty lies in that limited data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Chi Zhang , Nan Song , Guosheng Lin , Yun Zheng , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a new direction in continual learning (CL) for addressing catastrophic forgetting and non-IID data distribution simultaneously. Existing FCIL methods call for high communication costs and…

Class-incremental semantic segmentation (CISS) labels each pixel of an image with a corresponding object/stuff class continually. To this end, it is crucial to learn novel classes incrementally without forgetting previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Donghyeon Baek , Youngmin Oh , Sanghoon Lee , Junghyup Lee , Bumsub Ham

Incremental learning aims to enable machine learning models to continuously acquire new knowledge given new classes, while maintaining the knowledge already learned for old classes. Saving a subset of training samples of previously seen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Jian Jiang , Edoardo Cetin , Oya Celiktutan

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

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to train a model to learn new classes from non-stationary data streams without forgetting old ones. In this paper, we propose a new kind of connectionist model by tailoring neural unit dynamics that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Depeng Li , Tianqi Wang , Junwei Chen , Wei Dai , Zhigang Zeng

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) receives significant attention from the public to perform classification continuously with a few training samples, which suffers from the key catastrophic forgetting problem. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kexin Bao , Daichi Zhang , Hansong Zhang , Yong Li , Yutao Yue , Shiming Ge