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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

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

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

Machine learning has been highly successful in data-intensive applications but is often hampered when the data set is small. Recently, Few-Shot Learning (FSL) is proposed to tackle this problem. Using prior knowledge, FSL can rapidly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Yaqing Wang , Quanming Yao , James Kwok , Lionel M. Ni

For real-world applications, robots will need to continually learn in their environments through limited interactions with their users. Toward this, previous works in few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) and active class selection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Christopher McClurg , Ali Ayub , Harsh Tyagi , Sarah M. Rajtmajer , Alan R. Wagner

Efforts to overcome catastrophic forgetting in Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) have primarily focused on developing more effective gradient-based optimization strategies. In contrast, little attention has been paid to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Haidong Kang , Ketong Qian , Yi Lu

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) 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

To tackle the issues of catastrophic forgetting and overfitting in few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), previous work has primarily concentrated on preserving the memory of old knowledge during the incremental phase. The role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Wenhao Jiang , Duo Li , Menghan Hu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

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

We uncover an ever-overlooked deficiency in the prevailing Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods: the pre-trained knowledge is indeed a confounder that limits the performance. This finding is rooted from our causal assumption: a Structural Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhongqi Yue , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

Given a model well-trained with a large-scale base dataset, Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims at incrementally learning novel classes from a few labeled samples by avoiding overfitting, without catastrophically forgetting all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yawen Cui , Wanxia Deng , Haoyu Chen , Li Liu

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

Learning from large-scale pre-trained models with strong generalization ability has shown remarkable success in a wide range of downstream tasks recently, but it is still underexplored in the challenging few-shot class-incremental learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Linpu He , Yanan Li , Bingze Li , Elvis Han Cui , Donghui Wang

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces dual challenges of data scarcity and incremental learning in real-world scenarios. While pool-based prompting methods have demonstrated success in traditional incremental learning, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yongwei Jiang , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

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

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in object recognition tasks through the availability of large scale datasets like ImageNet. However, deep learning systems suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning incrementally without…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

Few-shot class-incremental Learning (FSCIL) enables models to learn new classes from limited data while retaining performance on previously learned classes. Traditional FSCIL methods often require fine-tuning parameters with limited new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Songlin Dong , Qiang Wang , Xinyuan Gao , Yihong Gong

Deep models, e.g., CNNs and Vision Transformers, have achieved impressive achievements in many vision tasks in the closed world. However, novel classes emerge from time to time in our ever-changing world, requiring a learning system to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Da-Wei Zhou , Qi-Wei Wang , Zhi-Hong Qi , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu
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