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Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually adapt a model on a limited number of new-class examples, facing two well-known challenges: catastrophic forgetting and overfitting to new classes. Existing methods tend to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kexin Baoa , Fanzhao Lin , Zichen Wang , Yong Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

In class incremental learning (CIL) a model must learn new classes in a sequential manner without forgetting old ones. However, conventional CIL methods consider a balanced distribution for each new task, which ignores the prevalence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Xialei Liu , Yu-Song Hu , Xu-Sheng Cao , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ke Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many computer vision tasks. However, in real-world scenarios, novel classes that were unseen during training often emerge, requiring models to acquire new knowledge…

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Existing continual relation learning (CRL) methods rely on plenty of labeled training data for learning a new task, which can be hard to acquire in real scenario as getting large and representative labeled data is often expensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Chengwei Qin , Shafiq Joty

Exemplar-free Class Incremental Learning (EFCIL) aims to learn from a sequence of tasks without having access to previous task data. In this paper, we consider the challenging Cold Start scenario in which insufficient data is available in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Simone Magistri , Tomaso Trinci , Albin Soutif-Cormerais , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

The Coarse-to-Fine Few-Shot (C2FS) task is designed to train models using only coarse labels, then leverages a limited number of subclass samples to achieve fine-grained recognition capabilities. This task presents two main challenges:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Xin-yang Zhao , Jian Jin , Yang-yang Li , Yazhou Yao

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is challenging due to extremely limited training data while requiring models to acquire new knowledge without catastrophic forgetting. Recent works have explored generative models, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junsu Kim , Yunhoe Ku , Dongyoon Han , Seungryul Baek

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) focuses on models learning new concepts from limited data while retaining knowledge of previous classes. Recently, many studies have started to leverage unlabeled samples to assist models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Fan Lyu , Linglan Zhao , Chengyan Liu , Yinying Mei , Zhang Zhang , Jian Zhang , Fuyuan Hu , Liang Wang

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

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

This paper tackles the problem of learning a finer representation than the one provided by training labels. This enables fine-grained category retrieval of images in a collection annotated with coarse labels only. Our network is learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Hugo Touvron , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Matthijs Douze , Matthieu Cord , Hervé Jégou

Automatic Pill Recognition (APR) systems are crucial for enhancing hospital efficiency, assisting visually impaired individuals, and preventing cross-infection. However, most existing deep learning-based pill recognition systems can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jinghua Zhang , Li Liu , Kai Gao , Dewen Hu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to acquire knowledge from novel classes with limited samples while retaining information about base classes. Existing methods address catastrophic forgetting and overfitting by freezing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Haichen Zhou , Yixiong Zou , Ruixuan Li , Yuhua Li , Kui Xiao

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

Deep convolutional neural networks have made significant breakthroughs in medical image classification, under the assumption that training samples from all classes are simultaneously available. However, in real-world medical scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Xuze Hao , Wenqian Ni , Xuhao Jiang , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

Both generalized and incremental few-shot learning have to deal with three major challenges: learning novel classes from only few samples per class, preventing catastrophic forgetting of base classes, and classifier calibration across novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Anna Kukleva , Hilde Kuehne , Bernt Schiele

Deep neural networks perform remarkably well in close-world scenarios. However, novel classes emerged continually in real applications, making it necessary to learn incrementally. Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to gradually recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Cheng-Lin Liu

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

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually learn new classes using a few samples while not forgetting the old classes. The key of this task is effective knowledge transfer from the base session to the incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

This paper studies the challenging continual learning (CL) setting of Class Incremental Learning (CIL). CIL learns a sequence of tasks consisting of disjoint sets of concepts or classes. At any time, a single model is built that can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Gyuhak Kim , Changnan Xiao , Tatsuya Konishi , Bing Liu