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Class-incremental with repetition (CIR), where previously trained classes repeatedly introduced in future tasks, is a more realistic scenario than the traditional class incremental setup, which assumes that each task contains unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Taeheon Kim , San Kim , Minhyuk Seo , Dongjae Jeon , Wonje Jeung , Jonghyun Choi

Continual learning and machine unlearning are crucial challenges in machine learning, typically addressed separately. Continual learning focuses on adapting to new knowledge while preserving past information, whereas unlearning involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Romit Chatterjee , Vikram Chundawat , Ayush Tarun , Ankur Mali , Murari Mandal

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

The size and the computational load of fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained neural network are becoming two major obstacles in adopting machine learning in many applications. Continual learning (CL) can serve as a remedy through enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yuliang Cai , Jesse Thomason , Mohammad Rostami

Existing continual learning (CL) research regards catastrophic forgetting (CF) as almost the only challenge. This paper argues for another challenge in class-incremental learning (CIL), which we call cross-task class discrimination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yiduo Guo , Bing Liu , Dongyan Zhao

Deep neural networks often severely forget previously learned knowledge when learning new knowledge. Various continual learning (CL) methods have been proposed to handle such a catastrophic forgetting issue from different perspectives and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Chao Wu , Xiaobin Chang , Ruixuan Wang

Incremental learning targets at achieving good performance on new categories without forgetting old ones. Knowledge distillation has been shown critical in preserving the performance on old classes. Conventional methods, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Peng Zhou , Long Mai , Jianming Zhang , Ning Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Larry S. Davis

In class-incremental semantic segmentation, we have no access to the labeled data of previous tasks. Therefore, when incrementally learning new classes, deep neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting of previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Lu Yu , Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer

Current deep learning models often suffer from catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge when continually learning new knowledge. Existing strategies to alleviate this issue often fix the trade-off between keeping old knowledge (stability)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Kanghao Chen , Sijia Liu , Ruixuan Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student. In language modeling, the student is trained either on tokens sampled from the teacher (hard labels) or the teacher's full next-token…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Guanghui Wang , Kaiwen Lv Kacuila , Zhiyong Yang , Zitai Wang , Jin-Wen Wu , Longtao Huang , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

We propose a novel framework and a solution to tackle the continual learning (CL) problem with changing network architectures. Most CL methods focus on adapting a single architecture to a new task/class by modifying its weights. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Divyam Madaan , Hongxu Yin , Wonmin Byeon , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

In Continual Learning (CL), a neural network is trained on a stream of data whose distribution changes over time. In this context, the main problem is how to learn new information without forgetting old knowledge (i.e., Catastrophic…

Continual learning aims to provide intelligent agents capable of learning multiple tasks sequentially with neural networks. One of its main challenging, catastrophic forgetting, is caused by the neural networks non-optimal ability to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Ghada Sokar , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Continual Learning (CL) aims to develop agents emulating the human ability to sequentially learn new tasks while being able to retain knowledge obtained from past experiences. In this paper, we introduce the novel problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Enrico Fini , Stéphane Lathuilière , Enver Sangineto , Moin Nabi , Elisa Ricci

Not forgetting old class knowledge is a key challenge for class-incremental learning (CIL) when the model continuously adapts to new classes. A common technique to address this is knowledge distillation (KD), which penalizes prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yaoyao Liu , Yingying Li , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun

Sparse neural systems are gaining traction for efficient continual learning due to their modularity and low interference. Architectures such as Sparse Distributed Memory Multi-Layer Perceptrons (SDMLP) construct task-specific subnetworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Huiyan Xue , Xuming Ran , Yaxin Li , Qi Xu , Enhui Li , Yi Xu , Qiang Zhang

Modern deep learning approaches have achieved great success in many vision applications by training a model using all available task-specific data. However, there are two major obstacles making it challenging to implement for real life…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jiangpeng He , Runyu Mao , Zeman Shao , Fengqing Zhu

A fundamental and challenging problem in deep learning is catastrophic forgetting, i.e. the tendency of neural networks to fail to preserve the knowledge acquired from old tasks when learning new tasks. This problem has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Guanglei Yang , Enrico Fini , Dan Xu , Paolo Rota , Mingli Ding , Moin Nabi , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Elisa Ricci

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

Task-incremental learning involves the challenging problem of learning new tasks continually, without forgetting past knowledge. Many approaches address the problem by expanding the structure of a shared neural network as tasks arrive, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Azhar Shaikh , Nishant Sinha