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Federated Class-Incremental Learning (FCIL) focuses on continually transferring the previous knowledge to learn new classes in dynamic Federated Learning (FL). However, existing methods do not consider the trustworthiness of FCIL, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xin Gao , Xin Yang , Hao Yu , Yan Kang , Tianrui Li

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…

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally learn models from a small amount of novel data, which requires strong representation and adaptation ability of models learned under few-example supervision to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kexin Bao , Yong Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

Class-incremental learning (CIL) has achieved remarkable successes in learning new classes consecutively while overcoming catastrophic forgetting on old categories. However, most existing CIL methods unreasonably assume that all old…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Jiahua Dong , Wenqi Liang , Yang Cong , Gan Sun

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) is a critical yet largely underexplored issue that deals with the dynamic incorporation of new classes within federated learning (FL). Existing methods often employ generative adversarial networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Naibo Wang , Yuchen Deng , Wenjie Feng , Jianwei Yin , See-Kiong Ng

Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning (efCIL) aims to continuously incorporate the knowledge from new classes while retaining previously learned information, without storing any old-class exemplars (i.e., samples). For this purpose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Libo Huang , Zhulin An , Yan Zeng , Chuanguang Yang , Xinqiang Yu , Yongjun Xu

Federated Learning has been introduced as a new machine learning paradigm enhancing the use of local devices. At a server level, FL regularly aggregates models learned locally on distributed clients to obtain a more general model. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Anastasiia Usmanova , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

In Federated Learning (FL), the data in each client is typically assumed fixed or static. However, data often comes in an incremental manner in real-world applications, where the data domain may increase dynamically. In this work, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yichen Li , Qunwei Li , Haozhao Wang , Ruixuan Li , Wenliang Zhong , Guannan Zhang

Federated learning is a technique that enables a centralized server to learn from distributed clients via communications without accessing the client local data. However, existing federated learning works mainly focus on a single task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Daiqing Qi , Handong Zhao , Sheng Li

In the scenario of class-incremental learning (CIL), deep neural networks have to adapt their model parameters to non-stationary data distributions, e.g., the emergence of new classes over time. However, CIL models are challenged by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Depeng Li , Zhigang Zeng

Federated Class Incremental Learning (FCIL) aims to collaboratively process continuously increasing incoming tasks across multiple clients. Among various approaches, data replay has become a promising solution, which can alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zhuang Qi , Ying-Peng Tang , Lei Meng , Han Yu , Xiaoxiao Li , Xiangxu Meng

Federated Class-Incremental Learning (FCIL) enables Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) from distributed data. Existing FCIL methods typically integrate old knowledge preservation into local client training. However, these methods cannot avoid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zenghao Guan , Guojun Zhu , Yucan Zhou , Wu Liu , Weiping Wang , Jiebo Luo , Xiaoyan Gu

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

Federated Class-Incremental Learning (FCIL) is an underexplored yet pivotal issue, involving the dynamic addition of new classes in the context of federated learning. In this field, Data-Free Knowledge Transfer (DFKT) plays a crucial role…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Minh-Tuan Tran , Trung Le , Xuan-May Le , Mehrtash Harandi , Dinh Phung

Federated continual learning (FCL) enables distributed client devices to learn from streaming data across diverse and evolving tasks. A major challenge to continual learning, catastrophic forgetting, is exacerbated in decentralized settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Seohyeon Cha , Huancheng Chen , Haris Vikalo

Federated continual learning (FCL) allows each client to continually update its knowledge from task streams, enhancing the applicability of federated learning in real-world scenarios. However, FCL needs to address not only spatial data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hao Yu , Xin Yang , Le Zhang , Hanlin Gu , Tianrui Li , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) faces a critical challenge: balancing the retention of prior knowledge with the acquisition of new classes. Existing methods either freeze the backbone to prevent catastrophic forgetting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Xiaojie Li , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

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

Federated learning encounters a critical challenge of data heterogeneity, adversely affecting the performance and convergence of the federated model. Various approaches have been proposed to address this issue, yet their effectiveness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu , Qinghai Zheng

Continual learning (CL) for Foundation Models (FMs) is an essential yet underexplored challenge, especially in Federated Continual Learning (FCL), where each client learns from a private, evolving task stream under strict data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hao Yu , Xin Yang , Boyang Fan , Xuemei Cao , Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang