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With the memory-resource-limited constraints, class-incremental learning (CIL) usually suffers from the "catastrophic forgetting" problem when updating the joint classification model on the arrival of newly added classes. To cope with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hanbin Zhao , Hui Wang , Yongjian Fu , Fei Wu , Xi Li

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is important in building real-world learning systems. In CLIP-based CIL, the model performs classification by comparing similarity between visual and textual embeddings obtained from template prompts, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhen-Hao Xie , Yu-Cheng Shi , Da-Wei Zhou

In general class-incremental learning, researchers typically use sample sets as a tool to avoid catastrophic forgetting during continuous learning. At the same time, researchers have also noted the differences between class-incremental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Weimin Yin , Bin Chen adn Chunzhao Xie , Zhenhao Tan

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to learn new classes while retaining previous knowledge. Although pre-trained model (PTM) based approaches show strong performance, directly fine-tuning PTMs on incremental task streams often causes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zhiming Xu , Suorong Yang , Baile Xu , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is a critical capability for real-world applications, enabling learning systems to adapt to new tasks while retaining knowledge from previous ones. Recent advancements in pre-trained models (PTMs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Kun He , Zijian Song , Shuoxi Zhang , John E. Hopcroft

Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) aims to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in class-incremental learning (CIL) without available historical training samples as exemplars. Compared with its exemplar-based CIL counterpart that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Run He , Di Fang , Yizhu Chen , Kai Tong , Cen Chen , Yi Wang , Lap-pui Chau , Huiping Zhuang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to train a classification model while the number of classes increases phase-by-phase. An inherent challenge of CIL is the stability-plasticity tradeoff, i.e., CIL models should keep stable to retain old…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yaoyao Liu , Yingying Li , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun

Incremental learning attempts to develop a classifier which learns continuously from a stream of data segregated into different classes. Deep learning approaches suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning classes incrementally, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Ali Ayub , Alan Wagner

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

The rehearsal strategy is widely used to alleviate the catastrophic forgetting problem in class incremental learning (CIL) by preserving limited exemplars from previous tasks. With imbalanced sample numbers between old and new classes, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xiuwei Chen , Xiaobin Chang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to adapt to continuously emerging new classes while preserving knowledge of previously learned ones. Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) presents a greater challenge that requires the model to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shiwon Kim , Dongjun Hwang , Sungwon Woo , Rita Singh

Instance-incremental learning (IIL) focuses on learning continually with data of the same classes. Compared to class-incremental learning (CIL), the IIL is seldom explored because IIL suffers less from catastrophic forgetting (CF). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Qiang Nie , Weifu Fu , Yuhuan Lin , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Lei Zhu , Chengjie Wang

Continual learning enables incremental learning of new tasks without forgetting those previously learned, resulting in positive knowledge transfer that can enhance performance on both new and old tasks. However, continual learning poses new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Dawid Rymarczyk , Joost van de Weijer , Bartosz Zieliński , Bartłomiej Twardowski

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) constitutes a pivotal subfield within continual learning, aimed at enabling models to progressively learn new classification tasks while retaining knowledge obtained from prior tasks. Although previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jaeill Kim , Wonseok Lee , Moonjung Eo , Wonjong Rhee

In this work, we investigate exemplar-free class incremental learning (CIL) with knowledge distillation (KD) as a regularization strategy, aiming to prevent forgetting. KD-based methods are successfully used in CIL, but they often struggle…

Class-incremental Learning (CIL) enables the model to incrementally absorb knowledge from new classes and build a generic classifier across all previously encountered classes. When the model optimizes with new classes, the knowledge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Juncen Guo , Xiaoguang Zhu , Liangyu Teng , Hao Yang , Jing Liu , Yang Liu , Liang Song

Continual Imitation Learning (CiL) involves extracting and accumulating task knowledge from demonstrations across multiple stages and tasks to achieve a multi-task policy. With recent advancements in foundation models, there has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Daehee Lee , Minjong Yoo , Woo Kyung Kim , Wonje Choi , Honguk Woo

Real-world environments are inherently non-stationary, frequently introducing new classes over time. This is especially common in time series classification, such as the emergence of new disease classification in healthcare or the addition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zhongzheng Qiao , Quang Pham , Zhen Cao , Hoang H Le , P. N. Suganthan , Xudong Jiang , Ramasamy Savitha

3D point cloud semantic segmentation technology has been widely used. However, in real-world scenarios, the environment is evolving. Thus, offline-trained segmentation models may lead to catastrophic forgetting of previously seen classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haosheng Li , Yuecong Xu , Junjie Chen , Kemi Ding

Researchers have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in sequential decision making problems (e.g., robotics control, sequential prediction) with deep neural network models. One often has access to near-optimal oracles that achieve…

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