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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 incrementally recognize new classes using a few samples while maintaining the performance on previously learned classes. One of the effective methods to solve this challenge is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) presents a core challenge in continual learning, requiring models to rapidly adapt to new classes with very limited samples while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Recent prompt-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shuai Huang , Xuhan Lin , Yuwu Lu

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) has gained considerable attention in recent years for its pivotal role in addressing continuously arriving classes. However, it encounters additional challenges. The scarcity of samples in new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Biqing Qi , Junqi Gao , Xingquan Chen , Dong Li , Jianxing Liu , Ligang Wu , Bowen Zhou

Few-shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) poses the challenge of retaining prior knowledge while learning from limited new data streams, all without overfitting. The rise of Vision-Language models (VLMs) has unlocked numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Thang Doan , Sima Behpour , Xin Li , Wenbin He , Liang Gou , Liu Ren

The proliferation of Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) methodologies has highlighted the critical challenge of maintaining robust anti-amnesia capabilities in FSCIL learners. In this paper, we present a novel conceptualization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jingren Liu , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , YunLong Yu

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

Meta-learning frameworks for few-shot learning aims to learn models that can learn new skills or adapt to new environments rapidly with a few training examples. This has led to the generalizability of the developed model towards new classes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Saaketh Medepalli , Naren Doraiswamy

Integrating new class information without losing previously acquired knowledge remains a central challenge in artificial intelligence, often referred to as catastrophic forgetting. Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) addresses this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kyle Stein , Andrew Arash Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

Modern deep neural networks for classification usually jointly learn a backbone for representation and a linear classifier to output the logit of each class. A recent study has shown a phenomenon called neural collapse that the within-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yibo Yang , Shixiang Chen , Xiangtai Li , Liang Xie , Zhouchen Lin , Dacheng Tao

Node classification with Graph Neural Networks (GNN) under a fixed set of labels is well known in contrast to Graph Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (GFSCIL), which involves learning a GNN classifier as graph nodes and classes growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yayong Li , Peyman Moghadam , Can Peng , Nan Ye , Piotr Koniusz

Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) poses significant challenges, primarily due to catastrophic forgetting, necessitating a delicate balance between stability and plasticity to accurately recognize both new and previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Eduard Hogea , Adrian Popescu , Darian Onchis , Grégoire Petit

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 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

There is a recently discovered and intriguing phenomenon called Neural Collapse: at the terminal phase of training a deep neural network for classification, the within-class penultimate feature means and the associated classifier vectors of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Tong Liang , Jim Davis

It is an important yet challenging setting to continually learn new tasks from a few examples. Although numerous efforts have been devoted to either continual learning or few-shot learning, little work has considered this new setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Liyuan Wang , Qian Li , Yi Zhong , Jun Zhu

One of the challenges in federated learning is the non-independent and identically distributed (non-iid) characteristics between heterogeneous devices, which cause significant differences in local updates and affect the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Chenxi Huang , Liang Xie , Yibo Yang , Wenxiao Wang , Binbin Lin , Deng Cai

While many FSCIL studies have been undertaken, achieving satisfactory performance, especially during incremental sessions, has remained challenging. One prominent challenge is that the encoder, trained with an ample base session training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 In-Ug Yoon , Tae-Min Choi , Sun-Kyung Lee , Young-Min Kim , Jong-Hwan Kim

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) must contend with the dual challenge of learning new classes from scarce samples while preserving old class knowledge. Existing methods use the frozen feature extractor and class-averaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zeyu He , Shuai Huang , Yuwu Lu , Ming Zhao

In this paper, we propose to tackle Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) from a new perspective, i.e., relation disentanglement, which means enhancing FSCIL via disentangling spurious relation between categories. The challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuan Zhou , Richang Hong , Yanrong Guo , Lin Liu , Shijie Hao , Hanwang Zhang