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Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is challenging due to extremely limited training data while requiring models to acquire new knowledge without catastrophic forgetting. Recent works have explored generative models, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junsu Kim , Yunhoe Ku , Dongyoon Han , Seungryul Baek

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to mitigate the catastrophic forgetting issue when a model is incrementally trained on limited data. However, many of these works lack effective exploration of prior knowledge, rendering them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Wan Xu , Tianyu Huang , Tianyu Qu , Guanglei Yang , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo

We present a bag of tricks framework for few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), which is a challenging form of continual learning that involves continuous adaptation to new tasks with limited samples. FSCIL requires both stability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Shuvendu Roy , Chunjong Park , Aldi Fahrezi , Ali Etemad

Different from fine-tuning models pre-trained on a large-scale dataset of preset classes, class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize novel classes over time without forgetting pre-trained classes. However, a given model will be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiang Xiang , Yuwen Tan , Qian Wan , Jing Ma

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims at learning to classify new classes continually from limited samples without forgetting the old classes. The mainstream framework tackling FSCIL is first to adopt the cross-entropy (CE) loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zeyin Song , Yifan Zhao , Yujun Shi , Peixi Peng , Li Yuan , Yonghong Tian

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) introduces a paradigm in which the problem space expands with limited data. FSCIL methods inherently face the challenge of catastrophic forgetting as data arrives incrementally, making models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Noor Ahmed , Anna Kukleva , Bernt Schiele

Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) portrays the problem of learning new concepts gradually, where only a few examples per concept are available to the learner. Due to the limited number of examples for training, the techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , Pengfei Fang , Soumava Kumar Roy , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

Few-shot class-incremental learning(FSCIL) focuses on designing learning algorithms that can continually learn a sequence of new tasks from a few samples without forgetting old ones. The difficulties are that training on a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jinze Li , Yan Bai , Yihang Lou , Xiongkun Linghu , Jianzhong He , Shaoyun Xu , Tao Bai

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

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) models aim to incrementally learn new classes with scarce samples while preserving knowledge of old ones. Existing FSCIL methods usually fine-tune the entire backbone, leading to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenxi Liu , Zhenyi Wang , Tianyi Xiong , Ruibo Chen , Yihan Wu , Junfeng Guo , Heng Huang

Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is crucial for adapting to the complex open-world environments. Contemporary prospective learning-based space construction methods struggle to balance old and new knowledge, as prototype bias and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Qinzhe Wang , Zixuan Chen , Keke Huang , Xiu Su , Chunhua Yang , Chang Xu

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

Real-world applications often face data privacy constraints and high acquisition costs, making the assumption of sufficient training data in incremental tasks unrealistic and leading to significant performance degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Liang Bai , Hong Song , Jinfu Li , Yucong Lin , Jingfan Fan , Tianyu Fu , Danni Ai , Deqiang Xiao , Jian Yang

Automatic Pill Recognition (APR) systems are crucial for enhancing hospital efficiency, assisting visually impaired individuals, and preventing cross-infection. However, most existing deep learning-based pill recognition systems can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jinghua Zhang , Li Liu , Kai Gao , Dewen Hu

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

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) poses significant challenges for artificial neural networks due to the need to efficiently learn from limited data while retaining knowledge of previously learned tasks. Inspired by the brain's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Wanyi Li , Wei Wei , Yongkang Luo , Peng Wang

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces a critical challenge: balancing the retention of prior knowledge with the acquisition of new classes. Existing methods either freeze the backbone to prevent catastrophic forgetting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xiaojie Li , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Inspired by Regularized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (RLTH), which hypothesizes that there exist smooth (non-binary) subnetworks within a dense network that achieve the competitive performance of the dense network, we propose a few-shot class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Haeyong Kang , Jaehong Yoon , Sultan Rizky Hikmawan Madjid , Sung Ju Hwang , Chang D. Yoo