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Exemplar-free class-incremental learning using a backbone trained from scratch and starting from a small first task presents a significant challenge for continual representation learning. Prototype-based approaches, when continually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Alex Gomez-Villa , Dipam Goswami , Kai Wang , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Bartlomiej Twardowski , Joost van de Weijer

We introduce a rehearsal-free federated domain incremental learning framework, RefFiL, based on a global prompt-sharing paradigm to alleviate catastrophic forgetting challenges in federated domain-incremental learning, where unseen domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rui Sun , Haoran Duan , Jiahua Dong , Varun Ojha , Tejal Shah , Rajiv Ranjan

Incremental Learning (IL) is useful when artificial systems need to deal with streams of data and do not have access to all data at all times. The most challenging setting requires a constant complexity of the deep model and an incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu , Ioannis Kanellos

Continual Learning is an unresolved challenge, whose relevance increases when considering modern applications. Unlike the human brain, trained deep neural networks suffer from a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting, wherein they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shahar Shaul-Ariel , Daphna Weinshall

Different from fine-tuning models pre-trained on a large-scale dataset of preset classes, class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize novel classes over time without forgetting pre-trained classes. However, a given model will be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiang Xiang , Yuwen Tan , Qian Wan , Jing Ma

In class-incremental learning, a learning agent faces a stream of data with the goal of learning new classes while not forgetting previous ones. Neural networks are known to suffer under this setting, as they forget previously acquired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Claudio Baecchi , Francesco Turchini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is a paradigm where a model, initially trained on a dataset of base classes, must adapt to an expanding problem space by recognizing novel classes with limited data. We focus on the challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jack Foster , Kirill Paramonov , Mete Ozay , Umberto Michieli

Humans are capable of learning new tasks without forgetting previous ones, while neural networks fail due to catastrophic forgetting between new and previously-learned tasks. We consider a class-incremental setting which means that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xialei Liu , Chenshen Wu , Mikel Menta , Luis Herranz , Bogdan Raducanu , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Shangling Jui , Joost van de Weijer

Incremental Learning (IL) is an interesting AI problem when the algorithm is assumed to work on a budget. This is especially true when IL is modeled using a deep learning approach, where two com- plex challenges arise due to limited memory,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu

To tackle the issues of catastrophic forgetting and overfitting in few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), previous work has primarily concentrated on preserving the memory of old knowledge during the incremental phase. The role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Wenhao Jiang , Duo Li , Menghan Hu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiaokang Yang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) models aim to incrementally learn new classes with scarce samples while preserving knowledge of old ones. Existing FSCIL methods usually fine-tune the entire backbone, leading to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenxi Liu , Zhenyi Wang , Tianyi Xiong , Ruibo Chen , Yihan Wu , Junfeng Guo , Heng Huang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) under an exemplar-free constraint has presented a significant challenge. Existing methods adhering to this constraint are prone to catastrophic forgetting, far more so than replay-based techniques that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Huiping Zhuang , Run He , Kai Tong , Ziqian Zeng , Cen Chen , Zhiping Lin

In contrast to the incremental classification task, the incremental detection task is characterized by the presence of data ambiguity, as an image may have differently labeled bounding boxes across multiple continuous learning stages. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Ziyue Huang , Yupeng He , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn new classes over time without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. The emergence of foundation models (FM) pretrained on large datasets presents new opportunities for CIL by offering rich,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mohamed Elkhayat , Mohamed Mahmoud , Jamil Fayyad , Nourhan Bayasi

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) enables machine learning systems to expand their inference capabilities to new classes using only a few labeled examples, without forgetting the previously learned classes. Classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yoga Esa Wibowo , Cristian Cioflan , Thorir Mar Ingolfsson , Michael Hersche , Leo Zhao , Abbas Rahimi , Luca Benini

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to continually learn a sequence of tasks, with each task consisting of a set of unique classes. Graph CIL (GCIL) follows the same setting but needs to deal with graph tasks (e.g., node classification in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen , Bing Liu

Class-Incremental Learning aims to update a deep classifier to learn new categories while maintaining or improving its accuracy on previously observed classes. Common methods to prevent forgetting previously learned classes include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim , Murat Onur Yildirim , Mert Kilickaya , Joaquin Vanschoren

Continual learning aims to improve the ability of modern learning systems to deal with non-stationary distributions, typically by attempting to learn a series of tasks sequentially. Prior art in the field has largely considered supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Dushyant Rao , Francesco Visin , Andrei A. Rusu , Yee Whye Teh , Razvan Pascanu , Raia Hadsell

Recent advances in deep learning for processing point clouds hold increased interest in Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) for 3D computer vision. This paper introduces a new method to tackle the Few-Shot Continual Incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sahar Ahmadi , Ali Cheraghian , Morteza Saberi , Md. Towsif Abir , Hamidreza Dastmalchi , Farookh Hussain , Shafin Rahman

Few-shot class incremental learning implies the model to learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned classes with a small number of training instances. Existing frameworks typically freeze the parameters of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Parinita Nema , Vinod K Kurmi