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Artificial intelligence systems predominantly rely on static data distributions, making them ineffective in dynamic real-world environments, such as cybersecurity, autonomous transportation, or finance, where data shifts frequently.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Isabella Marasco , Davide Evangelista , Elena Loli Piccolomini , Michele Colajanni

Current state-of-the-art vision-and-language models are evaluated on tasks either individually or in a multi-task setting, overlooking the challenges of continually learning (CL) tasks as they arrive. Existing CL benchmarks have facilitated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tejas Srinivasan , Ting-Yun Chang , Leticia Leonor Pinto Alva , Georgios Chochlakis , Mohammad Rostami , Jesse Thomason

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel in vision-language understanding but face challenges in adapting to dynamic real-world scenarios that require continuous integration of new knowledge and skills. While continual learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hongbo Zhao , Fei Zhu , Haiyang Guo , Meng Wang , Rundong Wang , Gaofeng Meng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Continual learning is increasingly sought after in real world machine learning applications, as it enables learning in a more human-like manner. Conventional machine learning approaches fail to achieve this, as incrementally updating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Joe Khawand , Peter Hanappe , David Colliaux

A continual learning (CL) algorithm learns from a non-stationary data stream. The non-stationarity is modeled by some schedule that determines how data is presented over time. Most current methods make strong assumptions on the schedule and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ruohan Wang , Marco Ciccone , Giulia Luise , Andrew Yapp , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a multi-discipline research task. To produce the right answer, it requires an understanding of the visual content of images, the natural language questions, as well as commonsense reasoning over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yao Zhang , Haokun Chen , Ahmed Frikha , Yezi Yang , Denis Krompass , Gengyuan Zhang , Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

In many real-life tasks of application of supervised learning approaches, all the training data are not available at the same time. The examples are lifelong image classification or recognition of environmental objects during interaction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Miltiadis Poursanidis , Jenny Benois-Pineau , Akka Zemmari , Boris Mansenca , Aymar de Rugy

Continual Learning (CL) aims to incrementally update a trained model on new tasks without forgetting the acquired knowledge of old ones. Existing CL methods usually reduce forgetting with task priors, \ie using task identity or a subset of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Tao Zhuo , Zhiyong Cheng , Hehe Fan , Mohan Kankanhalli

Continual learning (CL) is the sub-field of machine learning concerned with accumulating knowledge in dynamic environments. So far, CL research has mainly focused on incremental classification tasks, where models learn to classify new…

Large Language Model (LLM) image recognition is a powerful tool for extracting data from images, but accuracy depends on providing sufficient cues in the prompt - requiring a domain expert for specialized tasks. We introduce Cue Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Peter J. Bentley , Soo Ling Lim , Fuyuki Ishikawa

We propose and study a realistic Continual Learning (CL) setting where learning algorithms are granted a restricted computational budget per time step while training. We apply this setting to large-scale semi-supervised Continual Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Wenxuan Zhang , Youssef Mohamed , Bernard Ghanem , Philip H. S. Torr , Adel Bibi , Mohamed Elhoseiny

Continual learning (CL) is essential for deploying medical image segmentation models in clinical environments where imaging domains, anatomical targets, and diagnostic tasks evolve over time. However, continual segmentation still faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bomin Wang , Hangqi Zhou , Yibo Gao , Xiahai Zhuang

Continual learning (CL) is a paradigm that aims to replicate the human ability to learn and accumulate knowledge continually without forgetting previous knowledge and transferring it to new tasks. Recent instruction tuning (IT) involves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihan Zhang , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

Continual learning (CL) addresses the problem of catastrophic forgetting in neural networks, which occurs when a trained model tends to overwrite previously learned information, when presented with a new task. CL aims to instill the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Shishir Muralidhara , Saqib Bukhari , Georg Schneider , Didier Stricker , René Schuster

Continual learning (CL) aims to train models sequentially over multiple domains without forgetting previously learned knowledge. However, existing CL methods optimize for in-domain performance and are therefore prone to learning spurious,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Pascal Janetzky , Tobias Schlagenhauf , Stefan Feuerriegel

Continual learning (CL) is a particular machine learning paradigm where the data distribution and learning objective changes through time, or where all the training data and objective criteria are never available at once. The evolution of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Timothée Lesort , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Andrei Stoian , Davide Maltoni , David Filliat , Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez

Deep models, e.g., CNNs and Vision Transformers, have achieved impressive achievements in many vision tasks in the closed world. However, novel classes emerge from time to time in our ever-changing world, requiring a learning system to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Da-Wei Zhou , Qi-Wei Wang , Zhi-Hong Qi , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu

Current remote sensing vision-language models (RS VLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in image interpretation but rely on static training data, limiting their ability to accommodate continuously emerging sensing modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xingxing Weng , Ruifeng Ni , Chao Pang , XiangYu Hao , Yishan Wang , Xiaokang Zhang , Wei Xu , Gui-Song Xia

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 (CL) aims to help deep neural networks learn new knowledge while retaining what has been learned. Owing to their powerful generalizability, pre-trained vision-language models such as Contrastive Language-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Saurav Jha , Dong Gong , Lina Yao