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Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) presents a core challenge in continual learning, requiring models to rapidly adapt to new classes with very limited samples while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Recent prompt-based methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shuai Huang , Xuhan Lin , Yuwu Lu

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

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) faces challenges of memorizing old class distributions and estimating new class distributions given few training samples. In this study, we propose a learnable distribution calibration (LDC)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Binghao Liu , Boyu Yang , Lingxi Xie , Ren Wang , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Inspired by Regularized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (RLTH), which hypothesizes that there exist smooth (non-binary) subnetworks within a dense network that achieve the competitive performance of the dense network, we propose a few-shot class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Haeyong Kang , Jaehong Yoon , Sultan Rizky Hikmawan Madjid , Sung Ju Hwang , Chang D. Yoo

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

Few-shot class-incremental learning(FSCIL) focuses on designing learning algorithms that can continually learn a sequence of new tasks from a few samples without forgetting old ones. The difficulties are that training on a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jinze Li , Yan Bai , Yihang Lou , Xiongkun Linghu , Jianzhong He , Shaoyun Xu , Tao Bai

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

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 in the context of limited personal labeled samples (few-shot) is critical for numerous real-world applications, such as smart home devices. A key challenge in these scenarios is balancing the trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Kirill Paramonov , Mete Ozay , Eunju Yang , Jijoong Moon , Umberto Michieli

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

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

The human visual system is remarkable in learning new visual concepts from just a few examples. This is precisely the goal behind few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL), where the emphasis is additionally placed on ensuring the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Viswanatha Reddy Gajjala , Subhadeep Koley , Rohit Kundu , Aneeshan Sain , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is challenging due to extremely limited training data; while aiming to reduce catastrophic forgetting and learn new information. We propose Diffusion-FSCIL, a novel approach that employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Junsu Kim , Yunhoe Ku , Seungryul Baek

Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) is a more realistic and challenging paradigm in continual learning to incrementally learn unseen classes and overcome catastrophic forgetting on base classes with only a few training examples.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Haidong Kang , Wei Wu , Hanling Wang

Real-world systems must continuously adapt to novel concepts from limited data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. While Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is established in computer vision, its application to tabular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Umid Suleymanov , Murat Kantarcioglu , Kevin S Chan , Michael De Lucia , Kevin Hamlen , Latifur Khan , Sharad Mehrotra , Ananthram Swami , Bhavani Thuraisingham

Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is a task that requires a model to learn new classes incrementally without forgetting when only a few samples for each class are given. FSCIL encounters two significant challenges: catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Keon-Hee Park , Kyungwoo Song , Gyeong-Moon Park

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continuously recognize novel classes under limited data, which suffers from the key stability-plasticity dilemma: balancing the retention of old knowledge with the acquisition of new…

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

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 class incremental learning -- the problem of updating a trained classifier to discriminate among an expanded set of classes with limited labeled data -- is a key challenge for machine learning systems deployed in non-stationary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Afra Feyza Akyürek , Ekin Akyürek , Derry Tanti Wijaya , Jacob Andreas