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We tackle continual adaptation of vision-language models to new attributes, objects, and their compositions in Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL), while preventing forgetting of prior knowledge. Unlike classical continual learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Sauda Maryam , Sara Nadeem , Faisal Qureshi , Mohsen Ali

Continual learning and few-shot learning are important frontiers in progress toward broader Machine Learning (ML) capabilities. Recently, there has been intense interest in combining both. One of the first examples to do so was the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Gideon Kowadlo , Abdelrahman Ahmed , Amir Mayan , David Rawlinson

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

Most incremental learners excessively prioritize coarse classes of objects while neglecting various kinds of states (e.g. color and material) attached to the objects. As a result, they are limited in the ability to reason fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yanyi Zhang , Binglin Qiu , Qi Jia , Yu Liu , Ran He

New classes of sounds constantly emerge with a few samples, making it challenging for models to adapt to dynamic acoustic environments. This challenge motivates us to address the new problem of few-shot class-incremental audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Wei Xie , Yanxiong Li , Qianhua He , Wenchang Cao , Tuomas Virtanen

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

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) is a critical task in computer vision that enables models to recognize unseen combinations of known attributes and objects during inference, addressing the combinatorial challenge of requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ans Munir , Faisal Z. Qureshi , Mohsen Ali , Muhammad Haris Khan

The task of Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to transfer the knowledge learned from base categories with sufficient labelled data to novel categories with scarce known information. It is currently an important research question and has great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Chengming Xu , Chen Liu , Xinwei Sun , Siqian Yang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Yanwei Fu

Few-shot Learning (FSL) aims to classify new concepts from a small number of examples. While there have been an increasing amount of work on few-shot object classification in the last few years, most current approaches are limited to images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mathieu Pagé Fortin , Brahim Chaib-draa

Real-world applications often face data privacy constraints and high acquisition costs, making the assumption of sufficient training data in incremental tasks unrealistic and leading to significant performance degradation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Liang Bai , Hong Song , Jinfu Li , Yucong Lin , Jingfan Fan , Tianyu Fu , Danni Ai , Deqiang Xiao , Jian Yang

The goal of Few-Shot Continual Learning (FSCL) is to incrementally learn novel tasks with limited labeled samples and preserve previous capabilities simultaneously, while current FSCL methods are all for the class-incremental purpose.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yawen Cui , Zitong Yu , Rizhao Cai , Xun Wang , Alex C. Kot , Li Liu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has recently attracted extensive attention in various areas. Existing FSCIL methods highly depend on the robustness of the feature backbone pre-trained on base classes. In recent years, different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Wenhao Qiu , Sichao Fu , Jingyi Zhang , Chengxiang Lei , Qinmu Peng

One of the key limitations of modern deep learning approaches lies in the amount of data required to train them. Humans, by contrast, can learn to recognize novel categories from just a few examples. Instrumental to this rapid learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Pavel Tokmakov , Yu-Xiong Wang , Martial Hebert

Object-centric representations promise a key property for few-shot learning: Rather than treating a scene as a single unit, a model can decompose it into individual object-level parts that can be matched and compared across different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Phu-Quy Nguyen-Lam , Phu-Hoa Pham , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Chi-Nguyen Tran , Huynh Trung Kiet , Long Tran-Thanh

Modular approaches that use a different composition of modules for each problem are a promising direction in continual learning (CL). However, searching through the large, discrete space of module compositions is challenging, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Lazar Valkov , Akash Srivastava , Swarat Chaudhuri , Charles Sutton

Despite the outstanding performance in many individual tasks, deep neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning from continuous data streams in real-world scenarios. Current Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Liang Bai , Hong Song , Yucong Lin , Tianyu Fu , Deqiang Xiao , Danni Ai , Jingfan Fan , Jian Yang

Deep learning models have demonstrated exceptional performance in a variety of real-world applications. These successes are often attributed to strong base models that can generalize to novel tasks with limited supporting data while keeping…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chenqi Li , Boyan Gao , Gabriel Jones , Timothy Denison , Tingting Zhu

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

Few-shot learning (FSL) aims to learn models that generalize to novel classes with limited training samples. Recent works advance FSL towards a scenario where unlabeled examples are also available and propose semi-supervised FSL methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Linglan Zhao , Dashan Guo , Yunlu Xu , Liang Qiao , Zhanzhan Cheng , Shiliang Pu , Yi Niu , Xiangzhong Fang

Open-World Compositional Zero-shot Learning (OW-CZSL) aims to recognize novel compositions of state and object primitives in images with no priors on the compositional space, which induces a tremendously large output space containing all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Fushuo Huo , Wenchao Xu , Song Guo , Jingcai Guo , Haozhao Wang , Ziming Liu , Xiaocheng Lu