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Incremental semantic segmentation aims to continually learn the segmentation of new coming classes without accessing the training data of previously learned classes. However, most current methods fail to address catastrophic forgetting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Wei Cong , Yang Cong , Jiahua Dong , Gan Sun , Henghui Ding

The performance of autoregressive models on natural language generation tasks has dramatically improved due to the adoption of deep, self-attentive architectures. However, these gains have come at the cost of hindering inference speed,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Alexander Lin , Jeremy Wohlwend , Howard Chen , Tao Lei

Distributed learning on the edge often comprises self-centered devices (SCD) which learn local tasks independently and are unwilling to contribute to the performance of other SDCs. How do we achieve forward transfer at zero cost for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Antonio Carta , Andrea Cossu , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Davide Bacciu , Joost van de Weijer

Class-incremental with repetition (CIR), where previously trained classes repeatedly introduced in future tasks, is a more realistic scenario than the traditional class incremental setup, which assumes that each task contains unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Taeheon Kim , San Kim , Minhyuk Seo , Dongjae Jeon , Wonje Jeung , Jonghyun Choi

In class-incremental learning, the model is expected to learn new classes continually while maintaining knowledge on previous classes. The challenge here lies in preserving the model's ability to effectively represent prior classes in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Arjun Ashok , K J Joseph , Vineeth Balasubramanian

Continual learning aims to acquire new knowledge while retaining past information. Class-incremental learning (CIL) presents a challenging scenario where classes are introduced sequentially. For video data, the task becomes more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Chern Hong Lim , John See , Xing Gao , Junhui Hou , Weiyao Lin

Image-text contrastive models like CLIP have wide applications in zero-shot classification, image-text retrieval, and transfer learning. However, they often struggle on compositional visio-linguistic tasks (e.g., attribute-binding or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Samyadeep Basu , Shell Xu Hu , Maziar Sanjabi , Daniela Massiceti , Soheil Feizi

Post-training endows pretrained LLMs with a variety of desirable skills, including instruction-following, reasoning, and others. However, these post-trained LLMs only encode knowledge up to a cut-off date, necessitating continual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Shankar Padmanabhan , Mustafa Omer Gul , Tanya Goyal

Exemplar-free incremental learning is extremely challenging due to inaccessibility of data from old tasks. In this paper, we attempt to exploit the knowledge encoded in a previously trained classification model to handle the catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Fanfan Ye , Liang Ma , Qiaoyong Zhong , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

We study the new task of class-incremental Novel Class Discovery (class-iNCD), which refers to the problem of discovering novel categories in an unlabelled data set by leveraging a pre-trained model that has been trained on a labelled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Subhankar Roy , Mingxuan Liu , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Neural networks notoriously suffer from the problem of catastrophic forgetting, the phenomenon of forgetting the past knowledge when acquiring new knowledge. Overcoming catastrophic forgetting is of significant importance to emulate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Christian Simon , Piotr Koniusz , Mehrtash Harandi

This paper studies continual learning (CL) of a sequence of aspect sentiment classification(ASC) tasks in a particular CL setting called domain incremental learning (DIL). Each task is from a different domain or product. The DIL setting is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu , Hu Xu , Lei Shu

We investigate the problem of incremental learning for object counting, where a method must learn to count a variety of object classes from a sequence of datasets. A na\"ive approach to incremental object counting would suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Chenshen Wu , Joost van de Weijer

Referring image segmentation (RIS) requires accurate segmentation of target regions in images according to language descriptions, which is a cross-modal task integrating vision and language. Existing RIS methods typically employ large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chen Yang

Unsupervised Continual Learning (UCL) is a burgeoning field in machine learning, focusing on enabling neural networks to sequentially learn tasks without explicit label information. Catastrophic Forgetting (CF), where models forget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Mohammadreza Sadeghi , Zihan Wang , Narges Armanfard

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to develop a learning system that can continually learn new classes from a data stream without forgetting previously learned classes. When learning classes incrementally, the classifier must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Minqian Liu , Lifu Huang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) enables continuous learning of new classes while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of old ones. For the performance breakthrough of CIL, it is essential yet challenging to effectively refine past knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yuanzhi Su , Siyuan Chen , Yuan-Gen Wang

Multi-task learns multiple tasks, while sharing knowledge and computation among them. However, it suffers from catastrophic forgetting of previous knowledge when learned incrementally without access to the old data. Most existing object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xialei Liu , Hao Yang , Avinash Ravichandran , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been shown to improve zero-shot generalization capabilities of language and vision models. In this paper, we extend CLIP for efficient knowledge distillation, by utilizing embeddings as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Lakshmi Nair

This paper presents a practical and simple yet efficient method to effectively deal with the catastrophic forgetting for Class Incremental Learning (CIL) tasks. CIL tends to learn new concepts perfectly, but not at the expense of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Bahram Mohammadi , Mohammad Sabokrou