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Recent advances in deep learning for processing point clouds hold increased interest in Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) for 3D computer vision. This paper introduces a new method to tackle the Few-Shot Continual Incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sahar Ahmadi , Ali Cheraghian , Morteza Saberi , Md. Towsif Abir , Hamidreza Dastmalchi , Farookh Hussain , Shafin Rahman

This paper focuses on an under-explored yet important problem: Federated Class-Continual Learning (FCCL), where new classes are dynamically added in federated learning. Existing FCCL works suffer from various limitations, such as requiring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jie Zhang , Chen Chen , Weiming Zhuang , Lingjuan Lv

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually learn new classes using a few samples while not forgetting the old classes. The key of this task is effective knowledge transfer from the base session to the incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

Domain-Incremental Learning (DIL) focuses on continual learning in non-stationary environments, requiring models to adjust to evolving domains while preserving historical knowledge. DIL faces two critical challenges in the context of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Lan Li , Da-Wei Zhou , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan

The rehearsal strategy is widely used to alleviate the catastrophic forgetting problem in class incremental learning (CIL) by preserving limited exemplars from previous tasks. With imbalanced sample numbers between old and new classes, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Xiuwei Chen , Xiaobin Chang

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is a critical capability for real-world applications, enabling learning systems to adapt to new tasks while retaining knowledge from previous ones. Recent advancements in pre-trained models (PTMs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Kun He , Zijian Song , Shuoxi Zhang , John E. Hopcroft

Continual learning (CL) learns a sequence of tasks incrementally. There are two popular CL settings, class incremental learning (CIL) and task incremental learning (TIL). A major challenge of CL is catastrophic forgetting (CF). While a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Gyuhak Kim , Changnan Xiao , Tatsuya Konishi , Zixuan Ke , Bing Liu

As Web technology continues to develop, it has become increasingly common to use data stored on different clients. At the same time, federated learning has received widespread attention due to its ability to protect data privacy when let…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Xin Luo , Fang-Yi Liang , Jiale Liu , Yu-Wei Zhan , Zhen-Duo Chen , Xin-Shun Xu

Class-incremental learning (CIL) poses significant challenges in open-world scenarios, where models must not only learn new classes over time without forgetting previous ones but also handle inputs from unknown classes that a closed-set…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Srishti Gupta , Daniele Angioni , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Lea Schönherr , Battista Biggio , Fabio Roli

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to enable models to continuously learn new classes while overcoming catastrophic forgetting. The introduction of pre-trained models has brought new tuning paradigms to CIL. In this paper, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Qinhao Zhou , Yuwen Tan , Boqing Gong , Xiang Xiang

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) presents the primary challenge of balancing underfitting to a new session's task and forgetting the tasks from previous sessions. To address this challenge, we develop a simple yet powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 In-Ug Yoon , Tae-Min Choi , Young-Min Kim , Jong-Hwan Kim

Real-world scenarios are usually accompanied by continuously appearing classes with scare labeled samples, which require the machine learning model to incrementally learn new classes and maintain the knowledge of base classes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Qi-Wei Wang , Da-Wei Zhou , Yi-Kai Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

We propose Exemplar-Condensed federated class-incremental learning (ECoral) to distil the training characteristics of real images from streaming data into informative rehearsal exemplars. The proposed method eliminates the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Rui Sun , Yumin Zhang , Varun Ojha , Tejal Shah , Haoran Duan , Bo Wei , Rajiv Ranjan

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

Despite the great success of pre-trained language models, it is still a challenge to use these models for continual learning, especially for the class-incremental learning (CIL) setting due to catastrophic forgetting (CF). This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yijia Shao , Yiduo Guo , Dongyan Zhao , Bing Liu

This paper proposes a simple but highly efficient expansion-based model for continual learning. The recent feature transformation, masking and factorization-based methods are efficient, but they grow the model only over the global or shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Soumya Roy , Vinay K Verma , Deepak Gupta

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to handle the scenario where data of novel classes occur continuously and sequentially. The model should recognize the sequential novel classes while alleviating the catastrophic forgetting. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Xiaoshuang Chen , Zhongyi Sun , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding , Hongtao Lu

The problem of continual learning has attracted rising attention in recent years. However, few works have questioned the commonly used learning setup, based on a task curriculum of random class. This differs significantly from human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Yuzhao Chen , Zonghuan Li , Zhiyuan Hu , Nuno Vasconcelos

Existing continual learning (CL) research regards catastrophic forgetting (CF) as almost the only challenge. This paper argues for another challenge in class-incremental learning (CIL), which we call cross-task class discrimination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yiduo Guo , Bing Liu , Dongyan Zhao

Real-world applications require the classification model to adapt to new classes without forgetting old ones. Correspondingly, Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to train a model with limited memory size to meet this requirement. Typical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Da-Wei Zhou , Qi-Wei Wang , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan