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Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to develop a learning system that can continually learn new classes from a data stream without forgetting previously learned classes. When learning classes incrementally, the classifier must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Minqian Liu , Lifu Huang

A major open problem on the road to artificial intelligence is the development of incrementally learning systems that learn about more and more concepts over time from a stream of data. In this work, we introduce a new training strategy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Alexander Kolesnikov , Georg Sperl , Christoph H. Lampert

Multi-view learning (MVL) has gained great success in integrating information from multiple perspectives of a dataset to improve downstream task performance. To make MVL methods more practical in an open-ended environment, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Depeng Li , Tianqi Wang , Junwei Chen , Kenji Kawaguchi , Cheng Lian , Zhigang Zeng

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

The task of Long-tailed Class Incremental Learning (LT-CIL) addresses the sequential learning of new classes from datasets with imbalanced class distributions. This scenario intensifies the fundamental problem of catastrophic forgetting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Taigo Sakai , Kazuhiro Hotta

In the scenario of class-incremental learning (CIL), deep neural networks have to adapt their model parameters to non-stationary data distributions, e.g., the emergence of new classes over time. However, CIL models are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Depeng Li , Zhigang Zeng

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a critical yet largely underexplored issue that deals with the dynamic incorporation of new classes within federated learning (FL). Existing methods often employ generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Naibo Wang , Yuchen Deng , Wenjie Feng , Jianwei Yin , See-Kiong Ng

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) trains a model to continually recognize new classes from non-stationary data while retaining learned knowledge. A major challenge of CIL arises when applying to real-world data characterized by non-uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

Class-incremental learning (CIL) in medical image-guided diagnosis requires retaining prior diagnostic knowledge while adapting to newly emerging disease categories, which is critical for scalable clinical deployment. This problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xinyao Wu , Zhe Xu , Cheng Chen , Jiawei Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Raymond Kai-yu Tong

Building robust and real-time classifiers with diverse datasets are one of the most significant challenges to deep learning researchers. It is because there is a considerable gap between a model built with training (seen) data and real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Mayanka Chandrashekar , Yugyung Lee

Class-incremental learning (CIL) for endoscopic image analysis is crucial for real-world clinical applications, where diagnostic models should continuously adapt to evolving clinical data while retaining performance on previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bingrong Liu , Jun Shi , Yushan Zheng

Class-incremental learning (CIL) suffers from the notorious dilemma between learning newly added classes and preserving previously learned class knowledge. That catastrophic forgetting issue could be mitigated by storing historical data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Tianlong Chen , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang , Lisa Amini , Zhangyang Wang

We propose a causal framework to explain the catastrophic forgetting in Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) and then derive a novel distillation method that is orthogonal to the existing anti-forgetting techniques, such as data replay and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Xinting Hu , Kaihua Tang , Chunyan Miao , Xian-Sheng Hua , Hanwang Zhang

As Web technology continues to develop, it has become increasingly common to use data stored on different clients. At the same time, federated learning has received widespread attention due to its ability to protect data privacy when let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Xin Luo , Fang-Yi Liang , Jiale Liu , Yu-Wei Zhan , Zhen-Duo Chen , Xin-Shun Xu

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to solve the neural networks' catastrophic forgetting problem, which refers to the fact that once the network updates on a new task, its performance on previously-learned tasks drops dramatically. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Libo Huang , Yan Zeng , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

Class-incremental learning (CIL) is typically evaluated under predefined schedules with equal-sized tasks, leaving more realistic and complex cases unexplored. However, a practical CIL system should learns immediately when any number of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhiming Xu , Baile Xu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen , Suorong Yang

Class incremental learning (CIL) trains a network on sequential tasks with separated categories in each task but suffers from catastrophic forgetting, where models quickly lose previously learned knowledge when acquiring new tasks. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Huiping Zhuang , Yizhu Chen , Di Fang , Run He , Kai Tong , Hongxin Wei , Ziqian Zeng , Cen Chen

In Continual learning (CL) balancing effective adaptation while combating catastrophic forgetting is a central challenge. Many of the recent best-performing methods utilize various forms of prior task data, e.g. a replay buffer, to tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Nader Asadi , MohammadReza Davari , Sudhir Mudur , Rahaf Aljundi , Eugene Belilovsky

Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) aims to develop lifelong learning agents to continuously acquire knowledge across diverse tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. This requires efficiently managing the stability-plasticity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yuxuan Li , Qijun He , Mingqi Yuan , Wen-Tse Chen , Jeff Schneider , Jiayu Chen

Reinforcement learning (RL) excels in various applications but struggles in dynamic environments where the underlying Markov decision process evolves. Continual reinforcement learning (CRL) enables RL agents to continually learn and adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xue Yang , Michael Schukat , Junlin Lu , Patrick Mannion , Karl Mason , Enda Howley