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Feature Distillation (FD) strategies are proven to be effective in mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting (CF) seen in Class Incremental Learning (CIL). However, current FD approaches enforce strict alignment of feature magnitudes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 S Balasubramanian , Yedu Krishna P , Talasu Sai Sriram , M Sai Subramaniam , Manepalli Pranav Phanindra Sai , Darshan Gera

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 2021-04-08 Chi Zhang , Nan Song , Guosheng Lin , Yun Zheng , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu

This paper studies class incremental learning (CIL) of continual learning (CL). Many approaches have been proposed to deal with catastrophic forgetting (CF) in CIL. Most methods incrementally construct a single classifier for all classes of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Gyuhak Kim , Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

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

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to continuously learn new categories while retaining the knowledge of old ones. Pre-trained models (PTMs) show promising capabilities in CIL. However, existing approaches that apply lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Kai Jiang , Zhengyan Shi , Dell Zhang , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Few-shot learning (FSL), which aims to recognise new classes by adapting the learned knowledge with extremely limited few-shot (support) examples, remains an important open problem in computer vision. Most of the existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Li Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

This paper introduces a novel perspective about error in machine learning and proposes inverse feature learning (IFL) as a representation learning approach that learns a set of high-level features based on the representation of error for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Behzad Ghazanfari , Fatemeh Afghah

Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) models excel at understanding image-text relationships but struggle with adapting to new data without forgetting prior knowledge. To address this, models are typically fine-tuned using both new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ryan King , Gang Li , Bobak Mortazavi , Tianbao Yang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to enable models to continuously learn new classes while overcoming catastrophic forgetting. The introduction of pre-trained models has brought new tuning paradigms to CIL. In this paper, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Qinhao Zhou , Yuwen Tan , Boqing Gong , Xiang Xiang

We consider class incremental learning (CIL) problem, in which a learning agent continuously learns new classes from incrementally arriving training data batches and aims to predict well on all the classes learned so far. The main challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hongjoon Ahn , Jihwan Kwak , Subin Lim , Hyeonsu Bang , Hyojun Kim , Taesup Moon

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually fit new classes with limited training data, while maintaining the performance of previously learned classes. The main challenges are overfitting the rare new training samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Mingli Zhu , Zihao Zhu , Sihong Chen , Chen Chen , Baoyuan Wu

Class-incremental continual learning is a core step towards developing artificial intelligence systems that can continuously adapt to changes in the environment by learning new concepts without forgetting those previously learned. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Evelyn Chee , Mong Li Lee , Wynne Hsu

This paper studies the problem of class-incremental learning (CIL), a core setting within continual learning where a model learns a sequence of tasks, each containing a distinct set of classes. Traditional CIL methods, which do not leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Saleh Momeni , Changnan Xiao , Bing Liu

In this paper, we focus on a new and challenging decentralized machine learning paradigm in which there are continuous inflows of data to be addressed and the data are stored in multiple repositories. We initiate the study of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Xiaohan Zhang , Songlin Dong , Jinjie Chen , Qi Tian , Yihong Gong , Xiaopeng Hong

Invariance learning methods aim to learn invariant features in the hope that they generalize under distributional shifts. Although many tasks are naturally characterized by continuous domains, current invariance learning techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yong Lin , Fan Zhou , Lu Tan , Lintao Ma , Jiameng Liu , Yansu He , Yuan Yuan , Yu Liu , James Zhang , Yujiu Yang , Hao Wang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among participants while guaranteeing the privacy of raw data. Mainstream FL methodologies overlook the dynamic nature of real-world data, particularly its tendency to grow in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhiyuan Wu , Tianliu He , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Min Liu , Bo Gao , Xuefeng Jiang

Incremental learning attempts to develop a classifier which learns continuously from a stream of data segregated into different classes. Deep learning approaches suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning classes incrementally, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Ali Ayub , Alan Wagner

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

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) challenges models to sequentially learn new classes from minimal examples without forgetting prior knowledge, a task complicated by the stability-plasticity dilemma and data scarcity. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ruitao Wu , Yifan Zhao , Guangyao Chen , Jia Li

Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is a challenging continual learning task, where limited training examples are available during several learning sessions. To succeed in this task, it is necessary to avoid over-fitting new classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Marco D'Alessandro , Alberto Alonso , Enrique Calabrés , Mikel Galar