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Few Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) with few examples per class for each incremental session is the realistic setting of continual learning since obtaining large number of annotated samples is not feasible and cost effective. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Anant Khandelwal

Continually learning new classes from fresh data without forgetting previous knowledge of old classes is a very challenging research problem. Moreover, it is imperative that such learning must respect certain memory and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Michael Hersche , Geethan Karunaratne , Giovanni Cherubini , Luca Benini , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

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

Feature quality is paramount for classification performance, particularly in few-shot scenarios. Contrastive learning, a widely adopted technique for enhancing feature quality, leverages sample relations to extract intrinsic features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Guowei Yin , Sheng Huang , Luwen Huangfu , Yi Zhang , Xiaohong Zhang

Synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition (SAR-ATR) systems have rapidly evolved to tackle incremental recognition challenges in operational settings. Data scarcity remains a major hurdle that conventional SAR-ATR techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 George Karantaidis , Athanasios Pantsios , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

Few-Shot learning aims to train and optimize a model that can adapt to unseen visual classes with only a few labeled examples. The existing few-shot learning (FSL) methods, heavily rely only on visual data, thus fail to capture the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Mohamed Afham , Ranga Rodrigo

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims at learning to classify new classes continually from limited samples without forgetting the old classes. The mainstream framework tackling FSCIL is first to adopt the cross-entropy (CE) loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zeyin Song , Yifan Zhao , Yujun Shi , Peixi Peng , Li Yuan , Yonghong Tian

Few-shot class incremental learning (FSCIL) enables the continual learning of new concepts with only a few training examples. In FSCIL, the model undergoes substantial updates, making it prone to forgetting previous concepts and overfitting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Juntae Lee , Munawar Hayat , Sungrack Yun

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

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 is crucial for developing scalable and adaptive intelligent systems, as it enables models to acquire new classes with minimal annotated data while safeguarding the previously accumulated knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Cuiwei Liu , Siang Xu , Huaijun Qiu , Jing Zhang , Zhi Liu , Liang Zhao

New classes arise frequently in our ever-changing world, e.g., emerging topics in social media and new types of products in e-commerce. A model should recognize new classes and meanwhile maintain discriminability over old classes. Under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Da-Wei Zhou , Han-Jia Ye , Liang Ma , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , De-Chuan Zhan

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) has gained considerable attention in recent years for its pivotal role in addressing continuously arriving classes. However, it encounters additional challenges. The scarcity of samples in new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Biqing Qi , Junqi Gao , Xingquan Chen , Dong Li , Jianxing Liu , Ligang Wu , Bowen Zhou

The ability to incrementally learn new classes is crucial to the development of real-world artificial intelligence systems. In this paper, we focus on a challenging but practical few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) problem. FSCIL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiaoyu Tao , Xiaopeng Hong , Xinyuan Chang , Songlin Dong , Xing Wei , Yihong Gong

Few-shot text classification has recently been promoted by the meta-learning paradigm which aims to identify target classes with knowledge transferred from source classes with sets of small tasks named episodes. Despite their success,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Junfan Chen , Richong Zhang , Yongyi Mao , Jie Xu

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) represents a cutting-edge paradigm within the broader scope of machine learning, designed to empower models with the ability to assimilate new classes of data with limited examples while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Marinela Adam

Class incremental learning consists in training discriminative models to classify an increasing number of classes over time. However, doing so using only the newly added class data leads to the known problem of catastrophic forgetting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Quentin Ferdinand , Gilles Le Chenadec , Benoit Clement , Panagiotis Papadakis , Quentin Oliveau

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL), which targets at continuously expanding model's representation capacity under few supervisions, is an important yet challenging problem. On the one hand, when fitting new tasks (novel classes),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Boyu Yang , Mingbao Lin , Binghao Liu , Mengying Fu , Chang Liu , Rongrong Ji , Qixiang Ye

Recent advancements in deep learning have demonstrated remarkable performance comparable to human capabilities across various supervised computer vision tasks. However, the prevalent assumption of having an extensive pool of training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Anurag Kumar , Chinmay Bharti , Saikat Dutta , Srikrishna Karanam , Biplab Banerjee

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu