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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Megan Tjandrasuwita , Chanakya Ekbote , Liu Ziyin , Paul Pu Liang

Current deep learning models often suffer from catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge when continually learning new knowledge. Existing strategies to alleviate this issue often fix the trade-off between keeping old knowledge (stability)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Kanghao Chen , Sijia Liu , Ruixuan Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Class-incremental learning aims to learn new classes in an incremental fashion without forgetting the previously learned ones. Several research works have shown how additional data can be used by incremental models to help mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Quentin Jodelet , Xin Liu , Yin Jun Phua , Tsuyoshi Murata

To preserve previously learned representations, continual learning systems must strike a balance between plasticity, the ability to acquire new knowledge, and stability. This stability-plasticity dilemma affects how representations can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Kathrin Korte , Joachim Winter Pedersen , Eleni Nisioti , Sebastian Risi

Time-dependent data-generating distributions have proven to be difficult for gradient-based training of neural networks, as the greedy updates result in catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Despite the progress in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Matthias De Lange , Gido van de Ven , Tinne Tuytelaars

Trainable activation functions, whose parameters are optimized alongside network weights, offer increased expressivity compared to fixed activation functions. Specifically, trainable activation functions defined as ratios of polynomials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Rafał Surdej , Michał Bortkiewicz , Alex Lewandowski , Mateusz Ostaszewski , Clare Lyle

The stability-plasticity dilemma, closely related to a neural network's (NN) capacity-its ability to represent tasks-is a fundamental challenge in continual learning (CL). Within this context, we introduce CL's effective model capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Supriyo Chakraborty , Krishnan Raghavan

We introduce an approach for incremental learning that preserves feature descriptors of training images from previously learned classes, instead of the images themselves, unlike most existing work. Keeping the much lower-dimensional feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Ahmet Iscen , Jeffrey Zhang , Svetlana Lazebnik , Cordelia Schmid

We propose a novel class incremental learning approach by incorporating a feature augmentation technique motivated by adversarial attacks. We employ a classifier learned in the past to complement training examples rather than simply play a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Taehoon Kim , Jaeyoo Park , Bohyung Han

Incremental learning from non-stationary data poses special challenges to the field of machine learning. Although new algorithms have been developed for this, assessment of results and comparison of behaviors are still open problems, mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Alejandro Cervantes , Christian Gagné , Pedro Isasi , Marc Parizeau

Class-incremental continual learning is a core step towards developing artificial intelligence systems that can continuously adapt to changes in the environment by learning new concepts without forgetting those previously learned. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Evelyn Chee , Mong Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

Continual learning is conventionally tackled through sequential fine-tuning, a process that, while enabling adaptation, inherently favors plasticity over the stability needed to retain prior knowledge. While existing approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Ghada Sokar , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Anurag Arnab , Ahmet Iscen , Pablo Samuel Castro , Cordelia Schmid

Class incremental learning consists in training discriminative models to classify an increasing number of classes over time. However, doing so using only the newly added class data leads to the known problem of catastrophic forgetting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Quentin Ferdinand , Gilles Le Chenadec , Benoit Clement , Panagiotis Papadakis , Quentin Oliveau

Continual learning is an important problem for achieving human-level intelligence in real-world applications as an agent must continuously accumulate knowledge in response to streaming data/tasks. In this work, we consider a general and yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Jiangwei Xie , Shipeng Yan , Xuming He

Few-shot class incremental learning implies the model to learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned classes with a small number of training instances. Existing frameworks typically freeze the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Parinita Nema , Vinod K Kurmi

Classification tasks require a balanced distribution of data to ensure the learner to be trained to generalize over all classes. In real-world datasets, however, the number of instances vary substantially among classes. This typically leads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Joel Jang , Yoonjeon Kim , Kyoungho Choi , Sungho Suh

The stability-plasticity dilemma is a major challenge in continual learning, as it involves balancing the conflicting objectives of maintaining performance on previous tasks while learning new tasks. In this paper, we propose the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Haneol Kang , Dong-Wan Choi

The purpose of continuum plasticity models is to efficiently predict the behavior of structures beyond their elastic limits. The purpose of multiscale materials science models, among them crystal plasticity models, is to understand the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-18 Meijuan Zhang , K. Nguyen , Javier Segurado , Francisco J. Montans

The field of Continual Learning investigates the ability to learn consecutive tasks without losing performance on those previously learned. Its focus has been mainly on incremental classification tasks. We believe that research in continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Angelo G. Menezes , Gustavo de Moura , Cézanne Alves , André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho

The integration of large pre-trained models (PTMs) into Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) has facilitated the development of computationally efficient strategies such as First-Session Adaptation (FSA), which fine-tunes the model solely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Imad Eddine Marouf , Subhankar Roy , Stéphane Lathuilière , Enzo Tartaglione