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Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a new direction in continual learning (CL) for addressing catastrophic forgetting and non-IID data distribution simultaneously. Existing FCIL methods call for high communication costs and…

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

Few-Shot Classification(FSC) aims to generalize from base classes to novel classes given very limited labeled samples, which is an important step on the path toward human-like machine learning. State-of-the-art solutions involve learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiongkun Linghu , Yan Bai , Yihang Lou , Shengsen Wu , Jinze Li , Jianzhong He , Tao Bai

Learning representations for individual instances when only bag-level labels are available is a fundamental challenge in multiple instance learning (MIL). Recent works have shown promising results using contrastive self-supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Kangning Liu , Weicheng Zhu , Yiqiu Shen , Sheng Liu , Narges Razavian , Krzysztof J. Geras , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Deep learning based models have excelled in many computer vision tasks and appear to surpass humans' performance. However, these models require an avalanche of expensive human labeled training data and many iterations to train their large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yikai Wang , Li Zhang , Yuan Yao , Yanwei Fu

Deep neural networks perform remarkably well in close-world scenarios. However, novel classes emerged continually in real applications, making it necessary to learn incrementally. Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to gradually recognize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Wenzhuo Liu , Fei Zhu , Cheng-Lin Liu

Low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are increasingly performing on-board computing. However, the continuous emergence of new classes under strict memory and communication constraints poses major challenges for collaborative…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Heng Zhang , Xiaohong Deng , Sijing Duan , Wu Ouyang , KM Mahfujul , Yiqin Deng , Zhigang Chen

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize new classes incrementally while maintaining the discriminability of old classes. Most existing CIL methods are exemplar-based, i.e., storing a part of old data for retraining. Without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Fei Zhu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Zhen Cheng , Cheng-Lin Liu

Despite significant progress in continual learning ranging from architectural novelty to clever strategies for mitigating catastrophic forgetting most existing methods rest on a strong but unrealistic assumption the availability of labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla , K S Ananth , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Few-shot learning (FSL), purposing to resolve the problem of data-scarce, has attracted considerable attention in recent years. A popular FSL framework contains two phases: (i) the pre-train phase employs the base data to train a CNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Rui Xu , Lei Xing , Shuai Shao , Lifei Zhao , Baodi Liu , Weifeng Liu , Yicong Zhou

Exemplar-free class incremental learning (EF-CIL) is a nontrivial task that requires continuously enriching model capability with new classes while maintaining previously learned knowledge without storing and replaying any old class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tianqi Wang , Jingcai Guo , Depeng Li , Zhi Chen

Over the last couple of years few-shot learning (FSL) has attracted great attention towards minimizing the dependency on labeled training examples. An inherent difficulty in FSL is the handling of ambiguities resulting from having too few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Orhun Buğra Baran , Ramazan Gökberk Cinbiş

Few-shot classification (FSC) is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision that involves recognizing novel classes from limited data. While previous methods have focused on enhancing visual features or incorporating additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Fan Liu , Wenwen Cai , Jian Huo , Chuanyi Zhang , Delong Chen , Jun Zhou

Both generalized and incremental few-shot learning have to deal with three major challenges: learning novel classes from only few samples per class, preventing catastrophic forgetting of base classes, and classifier calibration across novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Anna Kukleva , Hilde Kuehne , Bernt Schiele

Incremental Few-Shot (IFS) segmentation aims to learn new categories over time from only a few annotations. Although widely studied in 2D, it remains underexplored for 3D point clouds. Existing methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Vishal Thengane , Zhaochong An , Tianjin Huang , Son Lam Phung , Abdesselam Bouzerdoum , Lu Yin , Na Zhao , Xiatian Zhu

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to build classification models from data streams. At each step of the CIL process, new classes must be integrated into the model. Due to catastrophic forgetting, CIL is particularly challenging when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Grégoire Petit , Michael Soumm , Eva Feillet , Adrian Popescu , Bertrand Delezoide , David Picard , Céline Hudelot

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) has been widely studied under the setting of starting from a small number of classes (base classes). Instead, we explore an understudied real-world setting of CIL that starts with a strong model pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Tz-Ying Wu , Gurumurthy Swaminathan , Zhizhong Li , Avinash Ravichandran , Nuno Vasconcelos , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

In class-incremental learning, the objective is to learn a number of classes sequentially without having access to the whole training data. However, due to a problem known as catastrophic forgetting, neural networks suffer substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Sobirdzhon Bobiev , Adil Khan , Syed Muhammad Ahsan Raza Kazmi

Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Guowei Yin , Sheng Huang , Luwen Huangfu , Yi Zhang , Xiaohong Zhang