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Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims to enable deep neural networks to learn new tasks incrementally from a small number of labeled samples without forgetting previously learned tasks, closely mimicking human learning patterns.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Songsong Tian , Lusi Li , Weijun Li , Hang Ran , Li Li , Xin Ning

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

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

The objective of Few-shot learning is to fully leverage the limited data resources for exploring the latent correlations within the data by applying algorithms and training a model with outstanding performance that can adequately meet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Wenqing Zhao , Guojia Xie , Han Pan , Biao Yang , Weichuan Zhang

Incremental few-shot learning is highly expected for practical robotics applications. On one hand, robot is desired to learn new tasks quickly and flexibly using only few annotated training samples; on the other hand, such new additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yiting Li , Haiyue Zhu , Sichao Tian , Fan Feng , Jun Ma , Chek Sing Teo , Cheng Xiang , Prahlad Vadakkepat , Tong Heng Lee

Fine-tuning a deep network trained with the standard cross-entropy loss is a strong baseline for few-shot learning. When fine-tuned transductively, this outperforms the current state-of-the-art on standard datasets such as Mini-ImageNet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Guneet S. Dhillon , Pratik Chaudhari , Avinash Ravichandran , Stefano Soatto

The human visual system is remarkable in learning new visual concepts from just a few examples. This is precisely the goal behind few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL), where the emphasis is additionally placed on ensuring the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Subhadeep Koley , Rohit Kundu , Aneeshan Sain , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

This work addresses the task of class-incremental weakly supervised object localization (CI-WSOL). The goal is to incrementally learn object localization for novel classes using only image-level annotations while retaining the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Sejin Park , Taehyung Lee , Yeejin Lee , Byeongkeun Kang

Continually learning new classes from fresh data without forgetting previous knowledge of old classes is a very challenging research problem. Moreover, it is imperative that such learning must respect certain memory and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Michael Hersche , Geethan Karunaratne , Giovanni Cherubini , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Few-shot learning is the process of learning novel classes using only a few examples and it remains a challenging task in machine learning. Many sophisticated few-shot learning algorithms have been proposed based on the notion that networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Akihiro Nakamura , Tatsuya Harada

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally learn novel classes from limited examples while preserving knowledge of previously learned classes. Existing methods face a critical dilemma: static architectures rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiaojie Li , Yibo Yang , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Real-world systems must continuously adapt to novel concepts from limited data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. While Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is established in computer vision, its application to tabular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Umid Suleymanov , Murat Kantarcioglu , Kevin S Chan , Michael De Lucia , Kevin Hamlen , Latifur Khan , Sharad Mehrotra , Ananthram Swami , Bhavani Thuraisingham

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with a few training examples. While recent works have shown that standard mini-batch training with a carefully designed training strategy can improve generalization ability for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jin-Woo Seo , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to learn progressively about new classes with very few labeled samples, without forgetting the knowledge of already learnt classes. FSCIL suffers from two major challenges: (i) over-fitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jayateja Kalla , Soma Biswas

Few-shot continual learning (FSCL) has attracted intensive attention and achieved some advances in recent years, but now it is difficult to again make a big stride in accuracy due to the limitation of only few-shot incremental samples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ziqi Gu , Chunyan Xu , Zihan Lu , Xin Liu , Anbo Dai , Zhen Cui

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has been a challenging problem as only a few training samples are accessible for each novel class in the new sessions. Finetuning the backbone or adjusting the classifier prototypes trained in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yibo Yang , Haobo Yuan , Xiangtai Li , Zhouchen Lin , Philip Torr , Dacheng Tao

The goal of incremental Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (iFSS) is to extend pre-trained segmentation models to new classes via few annotated images without access to old training data. During incrementally learning novel classes, the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Lianlei Shan , Wenzhang Zhou , Wei Li , Xingyu Ding

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) struggles to incrementally recognize novel classes from few examples without catastrophic forgetting of old classes or overfitting to new classes. We propose TLCE, which ensembles multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shuangmei Wang , Yang Cao , Tieru Wu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually learn new classes from only a few samples without forgetting previous ones, requiring intelligent agents to adapt to dynamic environments. FSCIL combines the characteristics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Dunwei Tu , Huiyu Yi , Tieyi Zhang , Ruotong Li , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Training a computer vision system to segment a novel class typically requires collecting and painstakingly annotating lots of images with objects from that class. Few-shot segmentation techniques reduce the required number of images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Shreyas Chandgothia , Ardhendu Sekhar , Amit Sethi