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Large language models have achieved remarkable success in various tasks. However, it is challenging for them to learn new tasks incrementally due to catastrophic forgetting. Existing approaches rely on experience replay, optimization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yukun Zhao , Lingyong Yan , Zhenyang Li , Shuaiqiang Wang , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Dawei Yin

Most meta-learning approaches assume the existence of a very large set of labeled data available for episodic meta-learning of base knowledge. This contrasts with the more realistic continual learning paradigm in which data arrives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Kai Wang , Xialei Liu , Andy Bagdanov , Luis Herranz , Shangling Jui , Joost van de Weijer

Classes, as fundamental elements of Computer Vision, have been extensively studied within incremental learning frameworks. In contrast, tokens, which play essential roles in many research fields, exhibit similar characteristics of growth,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jiaxin Qi , Yan Cui , Jianqiang Huang , Gaogang Xie

Many studies combine text and audio to capture multi-modal information but they overlook the model's generalization ability on new datasets. Introducing new datasets may affect the feature space of the original dataset, leading to…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yingfei Sun , Xu Gu , Wei Ji , Hanbin Zhao , Yifang Yin , Roger Zimmermann

Rehearsal-based Continual Learning (CL) has been intensely investigated in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, its application in Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) has not been explored in depth. In this paper we introduce the first…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Alberto Dequino , Alessio Carpegna , Davide Nadalini , Alessandro Savino , Luca Benini , Stefano Di Carlo , Francesco Conti

Online Continual learning is a challenging learning scenario where the model must learn from a non-stationary stream of data where each sample is seen only once. The main challenge is to incrementally learn while avoiding catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Mattia Sangermano , Antonio Carta , Andrea Cossu , Davide Bacciu

Deep learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting when being fine-tuned with samples of new classes. This issue becomes even more pronounced when faced with the domain shift between training and testing data. In this paper, we study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Can Peng , Piotr Koniusz , Kaiyu Guo , Brian C. Lovell , Peyman Moghadam

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to handle the scenario where data of novel classes occur continuously and sequentially. The model should recognize the sequential novel classes while alleviating the catastrophic forgetting. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Xiaoshuang Chen , Zhongyi Sun , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding , Hongtao Lu

We study the problem of sample efficient reinforcement learning, where prior data such as demonstrations are provided for initialization in lieu of a dense reward signal. A natural approach is to incorporate an imitation learning objective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Perry Dong , Alec M. Lessing , Annie S. Chen , Chelsea Finn

Non-exemplar class incremental learning aims to learn both the new and old tasks without accessing any training data from the past. This strict restriction enlarges the difficulty of alleviating catastrophic forgetting since all techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jiang-Tian Zhai , Xialei Liu , Lu Yu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Imitation learning considerably simplifies policy synthesis compared to alternative approaches by exploiting access to expert demonstrations. For such imitation policies, errors away from the training samples are particularly critical. Even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , Dinesh Jayaraman , James Weimer , Insup Lee

Continual learning methods are known to suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a phenomenon that is particularly hard to counter for methods that do not store exemplars of previous tasks. Therefore, to reduce potential drift in the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Dipam Goswami , Albin Soutif--Cormerais , Yuyang Liu , Sandesh Kamath , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Joost van de Weijer

A new algorithm for incremental learning in the context of Tiny Machine learning (TinyML) is presented, which is optimized for low-performance and energy efficient embedded devices. TinyML is an emerging field that deploys machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Marcus Rüb , Philipp Tuchel , Axel Sikora , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) [40] trains classifiers under a strict memory budget: in each incremental phase, learning is done for new data, most of which is abandoned to free space for the next phase. The preserved data are exemplars…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yaoyao Liu , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun

Demonstration learning aims to guide the prompt prediction via providing answered demonstrations in the few shot settings. Despite achieving promising results, existing work only concatenates the answered examples as demonstrations to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Sirui Wang , Kaiwen Wei , Hongzhi Zhang , Yuntao Li , Wei Wu

Modern machine learning suffers from catastrophic forgetting when learning new classes incrementally. The performance dramatically degrades due to the missing data of old classes. Incremental learning methods have been proposed to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Yue Wu , Yinpeng Chen , Lijuan Wang , Yuancheng Ye , Zicheng Liu , Yandong Guo , Yun Fu

Instance-incremental learning (IIL) focuses on learning continually with data of the same classes. Compared to class-incremental learning (CIL), the IIL is seldom explored because IIL suffers less from catastrophic forgetting (CF). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Qiang Nie , Weifu Fu , Yuhuan Lin , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Lei Zhu , Chengjie Wang

Continual learning poses a fundamental challenge for modern machine learning systems, requiring models to adapt to new tasks while retaining knowledge from previous ones. Addressing this challenge necessitates the development of efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jędrzej Kozal , Jan Wasilewski , Bartosz Krawczyk , Michał Woźniak

Modern computer vision applications suffer from catastrophic forgetting when incrementally learning new concepts over time. The most successful approaches to alleviate this forgetting require extensive replay of previously seen data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 James Smith , Yen-Chang Hsu , Jonathan Balloch , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Zsolt Kira

Exemplar-based class-incremental learning is to recognize new classes while not forgetting old ones, whose samples can only be saved in limited memory. The ratio fluctuation of new samples to old exemplars, which is caused by the variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Zhiheng Liu , Kai Zhu , Yang Cao