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Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) portrays the problem of learning new concepts gradually, where only a few examples per concept are available to the learner. Due to the limited number of examples for training, the techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ali Cheraghian , Shafin Rahman , Pengfei Fang , Soumava Kumar Roy , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is crucial for adapting to the complex open-world environments. Contemporary prospective learning-based space construction methods struggle to balance old and new knowledge, as prototype bias and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Qinzhe Wang , Zixuan Chen , Keke Huang , Xiu Su , Chunhua Yang , Chang Xu

Efforts to overcome catastrophic forgetting in Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) have primarily focused on developing more effective gradient-based optimization strategies. In contrast, little attention has been paid to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Haidong Kang , Ketong Qian , Yi Lu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) struggles to incrementally recognize novel classes from few examples without catastrophic forgetting of old classes or overfitting to new classes. We propose TLCE, which ensembles multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Shuangmei Wang , Yang Cao , Tieru Wu

It is an important yet challenging setting to continually learn new tasks from a few examples. Although numerous efforts have been devoted to either continual learning or few-shot learning, little work has considered this new setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Liyuan Wang , Qian Li , Yi Zhong , Jun Zhu

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces a critical challenge: balancing the retention of prior knowledge with the acquisition of new classes. Existing methods either freeze the backbone to prevent catastrophic forgetting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xiaojie Li , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Few-shot class-incremental Learning (FSCIL) enables models to learn new classes from limited data while retaining performance on previously learned classes. Traditional FSCIL methods often require fine-tuning parameters with limited new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Songlin Dong , Qiang Wang , Xinyuan Gao , Yihong Gong

For most real-world applications, robots need to adapt and learn continually with limited data in their environments. In this paper, we consider the problem of Few-Shot class Incremental Learning (FSIL), in which an AI agent is required to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

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

Given a model well-trained with a large-scale base dataset, Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims at incrementally learning novel classes from a few labeled samples by avoiding overfitting, without catastrophically forgetting all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yawen Cui , Wanxia Deng , Haoyu Chen , Li Liu

As a challenging problem, few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) continually learns a sequence of tasks, confronting the dilemma between slow forgetting of old knowledge and fast adaptation to new knowledge. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Hanbin Zhao , Yongjian Fu , Mintong Kang , Qi Tian , Fei Wu , Xi Li

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) must contend with the dual challenge of learning new classes from scarce samples while preserving old class knowledge. Existing methods use the frozen feature extractor and class-averaged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zeyu He , Shuai Huang , Yuwu Lu , Ming Zhao

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to design machine learning algorithms that can continually learn new concepts from a few data points, without forgetting knowledge of old classes. The difficulty lies in that limited data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hao Chen , Linyan Li , Fan Lyu , Fuyuan Hu , Zhenping Xia , Fenglei Xu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has been proposed aiming to enable a deep learning system to incrementally learn new classes with limited data. Recently, a pioneer claims that the commonly used replay-based method in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Huan Liu , Li Gu , Zhixiang Chi , Yang Wang , Yuanhao Yu , Jun Chen , Jin Tang

Few-shot continual learning (FSCL) has attracted intensive attention and achieved some advances in recent years, but now it is difficult to again make a big stride in accuracy due to the limitation of only few-shot incremental samples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ziqi Gu , Chunyan Xu , Zihan Lu , Xin Liu , Anbo Dai , Zhen Cui

Learning from large-scale pre-trained models with strong generalization ability has shown remarkable success in a wide range of downstream tasks recently, but it is still underexplored in the challenging few-shot class-incremental learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Linpu He , Yanan Li , Bingze Li , Elvis Han Cui , Donghui 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

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims to enable deep neural networks to learn new tasks incrementally from a small number of labeled samples without forgetting previously learned tasks, closely mimicking human learning patterns.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Songsong Tian , Lusi Li , Weijun Li , Hang Ran , Li Li , Xin Ning

For real-world applications, robots will need to continually learn in their environments through limited interactions with their users. Toward this, previous works in few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) and active class selection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Christopher McClurg , Ali Ayub , Harsh Tyagi , Sarah M. Rajtmajer , Alan R. Wagner