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Transfer learning refers to the use of knowledge gained while solving a machine learning task and applying it to the solution of a closely related problem. Such an approach has enabled scientific breakthroughs in computer vision and natural…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-11 Kyle Sprague , Juan Carrasquilla , Steve Whitelam , Isaac Tamblyn

Lifelong learning aims to preserve knowledge acquired from previous tasks while incorporating knowledge from a sequence of new tasks. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xuerui Zhang , Xuehao Wang , Zhan Zhuang , Linglan Zhao , Ziyue Li , Xinmin Zhang , Zhihuan Song , Yu Zhang

Continual learning is a setting where machine learning models learn novel concepts from continuously shifting training data, while simultaneously avoiding degradation of knowledge on previously seen classes which may disappear from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 James Seale Smith , Junjiao Tian , Shaunak Halbe , Yen-Chang Hsu , Zsolt Kira

Open-World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (OW-CZSL) aims to recognize new compositions of seen attributes and objects. In OW-CZSL, methods built on the conventional closed-world setting degrade severely due to the unconstrained OW test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yun Li , Zhe Liu , Saurav Jha , Sally Cripps , Lina Yao

Continual learning (CL) in deep neural networks (DNNs) involves incrementally accumulating knowledge in a DNN from a growing data stream. A major challenge in CL is that non-stationary data streams cause catastrophic forgetting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Md Yousuf Harun , Jhair Gallardo , Junyu Chen , Christopher Kanan

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

Pathological examination of the placenta is an effective method for detecting and mitigating health risks associated with childbirth. Recent advancements in AI have enabled the use of photographs of the placenta and pathology reports for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Manas Mehta , Yimu Pan , Kelly Gallagher , Alison D. Gernand , Jeffery A. Goldstein , Delia Mwinyelle , Leena Mithal , James Z. Wang

The task of Long-tailed Class Incremental Learning (LT-CIL) addresses the sequential learning of new classes from datasets with imbalanced class distributions. This scenario intensifies the fundamental problem of catastrophic forgetting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Taigo Sakai , Kazuhiro Hotta

Knowledge distillation (KD) has witnessed its powerful capability in learning compact models in object detection. Previous KD methods for object detection mostly focus on imitating deep features within the imitation regions instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhaohui Zheng , Rongguang Ye , Ping Wang , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

A common scenario of Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) is that each translation task arrives in a sequential manner, and the training data of previous tasks is unavailable. In this scenario, the current methods suffer heavily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Zhao , Junnan Zhu , Lu Xiang , Jiajun Zhang , Yu Zhou , Feifei Zhai , Chengqing Zong

The field of Continual Learning (CL) has inspired numerous researchers over the years, leading to increasingly advanced countermeasures to the issue of catastrophic forgetting. Most studies have focused on the single-class scenario, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Martin Menabue , Emanuele Frascaroli , Matteo Boschini , Lorenzo Bonicelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara

Knowledge distillation has been successfully applied to Continual Learning Named Entity Recognition (CLNER) tasks, by using a teacher model trained on old-class data to distill old-class entities present in new-class data as a form of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhe Ren

This paper studies the problem of pre-training for small models, which is essential for many mobile devices. Current state-of-the-art methods on this problem transfer the representational knowledge of a large network (as a Teacher) into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingsheng Li , Lin Zhang , Mingzhen Zhu , Zilong Huang , Gang Yu , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

Continual Learning (CL) focuses on developing algorithms with the ability to adapt to new environments and learn new skills. This very challenging task has generated a lot of interest in recent years, with new solutions appearing rapidly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jinxiang Lai , Wenlong Liu , Jun Liu

This paper presents the FuzzyDistillViT-MobileNet model, a novel approach for lung cancer (LC) classification, leveraging dynamic fuzzy logic-driven knowledge distillation (KD) to address uncertainty and complexity in disease diagnosis.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Saif Ur Rehman Khan , Muhammad Nabeel Asim , Sebastian Vollmer , Andreas Dengel

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in efficient image super-resolution. However, for CNN-based methods, performance gains often require deeper networks and larger feature maps, which increase complexity and inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Xinning Chai , Yao Zhang , Yuxuan Zhang , Zhengxue Cheng , Yingsheng Qin , Yucai Yang , Li Song

Deep neural networks often suffer performance degradation upon deployment due to distribution shifts. Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) aims to address this issue in an unsupervised manner. However, existing methods that rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Xiao Chen , Jiazhen Huang , Zhiming Liu , Qinting Jiang , Fanding Huang , Jingyan Jiang , Zhi Wang

Spoken question answering (SQA) is a challenging task that requires the machine to fully understand the complex spoken documents. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) plays a significant role in the development of QA systems. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Chenyu You , Nuo Chen , Yuexian Zou

We propose Deep Companion Learning (DCL), a novel training method for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that enhances generalization by penalizing inconsistent model predictions compared to its historical performance. To achieve this, we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Ruizhao Zhu , Venkatesh Saligrama

General Continual Learning (GCL) aims at learning from non independent and identically distributed stream data without catastrophic forgetting of the old tasks that don't rely on task boundaries during both training and testing stages. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhong Ji , Jin Li , Qiang Wang , Zhongfei Zhang