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Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to prevent catastrophic forgetting of previously learned classes while sequentially incorporating new ones. The more challenging Few-shot CIL (FSCIL) setting further complicates this by providing only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhiwu Wang , Yichen Wu , Renzhen Wang , Haokun Lin , Quanziang Wang , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

Class-incremental learning (CIL) is typically evaluated under predefined schedules with equal-sized tasks, leaving more realistic and complex cases unexplored. However, a practical CIL system should learns immediately when any number of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhiming Xu , Baile Xu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen , Suorong Yang

To imitate the ability of keeping learning of human, continual learning which can learn from a never-ending data stream has attracted more interests recently. In all settings, the online class incremental learning (OCIL), where incoming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Guoqiang Liang , Zhaojie Chen , Zhaoqiang Chen , Shiyu Ji , Yanning Zhang

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) represents a cutting-edge paradigm within the broader scope of machine learning, designed to empower models with the ability to assimilate new classes of data with limited examples while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Marinela Adam

Few Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) with few examples per class for each incremental session is the realistic setting of continual learning since obtaining large number of annotated samples is not feasible and cost effective. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Anant Khandelwal

Continual learning enables incremental learning of new tasks without forgetting those previously learned, resulting in positive knowledge transfer that can enhance performance on both new and old tasks. However, continual learning poses new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Dawid Rymarczyk , Joost van de Weijer , Bartosz Zieliński , Bartłomiej Twardowski

Incremental multi-view clustering aims to achieve stable clustering results while addressing the stability-plasticity dilemma (SPD) in view-incremental scenarios. The core challenge is that the model must have enough plasticity to quickly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zisen Kong , Bo Zhong , Pengyuan Li , Dongxia Chang , Yiming Wang , Yongyong Chen

Real-world scenarios are usually accompanied by continuously appearing classes with scare labeled samples, which require the machine learning model to incrementally learn new classes and maintain the knowledge of base classes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qi-Wei Wang , Da-Wei Zhou , Yi-Kai Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) enables the continual learning of new concepts with only a few training examples. In FSCIL, the model undergoes substantial updates, making it prone to forgetting previous concepts and overfitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Juntae Lee , Munawar Hayat , Sungrack Yun

Exemplar-based class-incremental learning (CIL) finetunes the model with all samples of new classes but few-shot exemplars of old classes in each incremental phase, where the "few-shot" abides by the limited memory budget. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zilin Luo , Yaoyao Liu , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to learn progressively about new classes with very few labeled samples, without forgetting the knowledge of already learnt classes. FSCIL suffers from two major challenges: (i) over-fitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jayateja Kalla , Soma Biswas

Class-incremental learning (CIL) seeks to enable a model to sequentially learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned ones. Balancing flexibility and stability remains a significant challenge, particularly when the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Fangwen Wu , Lechao Cheng , Shengeng Tang , Xiaofeng Zhu , Chaowei Fang , Dingwen Zhang , Meng Wang

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to mitigate the catastrophic forgetting issue when a model is incrementally trained on limited data. However, many of these works lack effective exploration of prior knowledge, rendering them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Wan Xu , Tianyu Huang , Tianyu Qu , Guanglei Yang , Yiwen Guo , Wangmeng Zuo

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) requires an agent to learn distinct tasks consecutively with knowledge retention against forgetting. Problems impeding the practical applications of CIL methods are twofold: (1) non-i.i.d batch streams and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Junda Wang , Minghui Hu , Ning Li , Abdulaziz Al-Ali , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

Plasticity and stability are needed in class-incremental learning in order to learn from new data while preserving past knowledge. Due to catastrophic forgetting, finding a compromise between these two properties is particularly challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Grégoire Petit , Adrian Popescu , Eden Belouadah , David Picard , Bertrand Delezoide

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is designed to incrementally recognize novel classes with only few training samples after the (pre-)training on base classes with sufficient samples, which focuses on both base-class performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Most fine-grained fashion image retrieval (FIR) methods assume a static setting, requiring full retraining when new attributes appear, which is costly and impractical for dynamic scenarios. Although pretrained models support zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ling Xiao , Toshihiko Yamasaki

New objects are continuously emerging in the dynamically changing world and a real-world artificial intelligence system should be capable of continual and effectual adaptation to new emerging classes without forgetting old ones. In view of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Xuejun Han , Yuhong Guo

We propose a new method for exemplar-free class incremental training of ViTs. The main challenge of exemplar-free continual learning is maintaining plasticity of the learner without causing catastrophic forgetting of previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Marco Cotogni , Fei Yang , Claudio Cusano , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Joost van de Weijer