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Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a new direction in continual learning (CL) for addressing catastrophic forgetting and non-IID data distribution simultaneously. Existing FCIL methods call for high communication costs and…

Machine learning classifiers are often trained to recognize a set of pre-defined classes. However, in many applications, it is often desirable to have the flexibility of learning additional concepts, with limited data and without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Mengye Ren , Renjie Liao , Ethan Fetaya , Richard S. Zemel

Continual learning (or class incremental learning) is a realistic learning scenario for computer vision systems, where deep neural networks are trained on episodic data, and the data from previous episodes are generally inaccessible to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Aditya R. Bhattacharya , Debanjan Goswami , Shayok Chakraborty

Class-incremental learning is a challenging problem, where the goal is to train a model that can classify data from an increasing number of classes over time. With the advancement of vision-language pre-trained models such as CLIP, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Linlan Huang , Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Xialei Liu

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn a classification model with the number of classes increasing phase-by-phase. An inherent problem in CIL is the stability-plasticity dilemma between the learning of old and new classes, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yaoyao Liu , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun

In few-shot imitation learning (FSIL), using behavioral cloning (BC) to solve unseen tasks with few expert demonstrations becomes a popular research direction. The following capabilities are essential in robotics applications: (1) Behaving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jia-Fong Yeh , Chi-Ming Chung , Hung-Ting Su , Yi-Ting Chen , Winston H. Hsu

With the memory-resource-limited constraints, class-incremental learning (CIL) usually suffers from the "catastrophic forgetting" problem when updating the joint classification model on the arrival of newly added classes. To cope with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Hanbin Zhao , Hui Wang , Yongjian Fu , Fei Wu , Xi Li

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) receives significant attention from the public to perform classification continuously with a few training samples, which suffers from the key catastrophic forgetting problem. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kexin Bao , Daichi Zhang , Hansong Zhang , Yong Li , Yutao Yue , Shiming Ge

Few-shot learning aims to classify unseen classes with a few training examples. While recent works have shown that standard mini-batch training with a carefully designed training strategy can improve generalization ability for unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jin-Woo Seo , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to acquire knowledge from novel classes with limited samples while retaining information about base classes. Existing methods address catastrophic forgetting and overfitting by freezing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Haichen Zhou , Yixiong Zou , Ruixuan Li , Yuhua Li , Kui Xiao

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

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

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 recognize new concepts using a limited number of visual samples. Existing approaches attempt to incorporate semantic information into the limited visual data for category understanding. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Mushui Liu , Fangtai Wu , Bozheng Li , Ziqian Lu , Yunlong Yu , Xi Li

Exemplar-free Class Incremental Learning (EFCIL) aims to learn from a sequence of tasks without having access to previous task data. In this paper, we consider the challenging Cold Start scenario in which insufficient data is available in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Simone Magistri , Tomaso Trinci , Albin Soutif-Cormerais , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

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

Non-exemplar class incremental learning aims to learn both the new and old tasks without accessing any training data from the past. This strict restriction enlarges the difficulty of alleviating catastrophic forgetting since all techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jiang-Tian Zhai , Xialei Liu , Lu Yu , Ming-Ming Cheng

Few-shot semantic segmentation aims to segment novel-class objects in a given query image with only a few labeled support images. Most advanced solutions exploit a metric learning framework that performs segmentation through matching each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jiacheng Chen , Bin-Bin Gao , Zongqing Lu , Jing-Hao Xue , Chengjie Wang , Qingmin Liao

In the context of few-shot classification, the goal is to train a classifier using a limited number of samples while maintaining satisfactory performance. However, traditional metric-based methods exhibit certain limitations in achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Fatemeh Askari , Amirreza Fateh , Mohammad Reza Mohammadi

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