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Deep networks have shown remarkable results in the task of object detection. However, their performance suffers critical drops when they are subsequently trained on novel classes without any sample from the base classes originally used to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

In this paper, we consider the problem of fine-grained image retrieval in an incremental setting, when new categories are added over time. On the one hand, repeatedly training the representation on the extended dataset is time-consuming. On…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Wei Chen , Yu Liu , Weiping Wang , Tinne Tuytelaars , Erwin M. Bakker , Michael Lew

Incremental learning is a form of online learning. Incremental learning can modify the parameters and structure of the deep learning model so that the model does not forget the old knowledge while learning new knowledge. Preventing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Sheng Ren , Yan He , Neal N. Xiong , Kehua Guo

Recent studies suggest that Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) is inherently more resilient to catastrophic forgetting than Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). However, whether RFT (e.g., GRPO) can effectively overcome forgetting in challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Meng Lou , Hanzhong Guo , Linwei Chen , Yizhou Yu

Large Language Models demonstrate strong reasoning capabilities, which can be effectively compressed into smaller models. However, existing datasets and fine-tuning approaches still face challenges that lead to catastrophic forgetting,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lanxue Zhang , Yuqiang Xie , Fang Fang , Fanglong Dong , Rui Liu , Yanan Cao

Distribution shifts in attack patterns within RPL-based IoT networks pose a critical threat to the reliability and security of large-scale connected systems. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) trained on static datasets often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sourasekhar Banerjee , David Bergqvist , Salman Toor , Christian Rohner , Andreas Johnsson

Task-incremental continual learning refers to continually training a model in a sequence of tasks while overcoming the problem of catastrophic forgetting (CF). The issue arrives for the reason that the learned representations are forgotten…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yun Luo , Xiaotian Lin , Zhen Yang , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou , Yue Zhang

To address the problem of catastrophic forgetting due to the invisibility of old categories in sequential input, existing work based on relatively simple categorization tasks has made some progress. In contrast, video captioning is a more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Huiyu Xiong , Lanxiao Wang , Heqian Qiu , Taijin Zhao , Benliu Qiu , Hongliang Li

Continual learning (CL) empowers AI systems to progressively acquire knowledge from non-stationary data streams. However, catastrophic forgetting remains a critical challenge. In this work, we identify attention drift in Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Yue Lu , Xiangyu Zhou , Shizhou Zhang , Yinghui Xing , Guoqiang Liang , Wencong Zhang

The ability of artificial agents to increment their capabilities when confronted with new data is an open challenge in artificial intelligence. The main challenge faced in such cases is catastrophic forgetting, i.e., the tendency of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu , Ioannis Kanellos

Class-Incremental learning (CIL) refers to the ability of artificial agents to integrate new classes as they appear in a stream. It is particularly interesting in evolving environments where agents have limited access to memory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Eden Belouadah , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Incremental learning (IL) suffers from catastrophic forgetting of old tasks when learning new tasks. This can be addressed by replaying previous tasks' data stored in a memory, which however is usually prone to size limits and privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiangtao Kong , Zhenyu Zong , Tianyi Zhou , Huajie Shao

Object detection limits its recognizable categories during the training phase, in which it can not cover all objects of interest for users. To satisfy the practical necessity, the incremental learning ability of the detector becomes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zhenwei He , Lei Zhang

Mitigating catastrophic forgetting is a key hurdle in continual learning. Deep Generative Replay (GR) provides techniques focused on generating samples from prior tasks to enhance the model's memory capabilities using generative AI models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Khanh Doan , Quyen Tran , Tung Lam Tran , Tuan Nguyen , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Catastrophic forgetting in deep neural networks occurs when learning new tasks degrades performance on previously learned tasks due to knowledge overwriting. Among the approaches to mitigate this issue, regularization techniques aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Idan Mashiach , Oren Glickman , Tom Tirer

Detecting players from sports broadcast videos is essential for intelligent event analysis. However, existing methods assume fixed player categories, incapably accommodating the real-world scenarios where categories continue to evolve.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Liang Bai , Hangjie Yuan , Tao Feng , Hong Song , Jian Yang

In the field of class incremental learning (CIL), generative replay has become increasingly prominent as a method to mitigate the catastrophic forgetting, alongside the continuous improvements in generative models. However, its application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Junsu Kim , Hoseong Cho , Jihyeon Kim , Yihalem Yimolal Tiruneh , Seungryul Baek

This paper considers incremental few-shot learning, which requires a model to continually recognize new categories with only a few examples provided. Our study shows that existing methods severely suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Guangyuan Shi , Jiaxin Chen , Wenlong Zhang , Li-Ming Zhan , Xiao-Ming Wu

Traditional Incremental Learning (IL) targets to handle sequential fully-supervised learning problems where novel classes emerge from time to time. However, due to inherent annotation uncertainty and ambiguity, collecting high-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Rui Wang , Mingxuan Xia , Chang Yao , Lei Feng , Junbo Zhao , Gang Chen , Haobo Wang

Continual Learning research typically focuses on tackling the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. Catastrophic forgetting is associated with an abrupt loss of knowledge previously learned by a model when the task, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 MohammadReza Davari , Nader Asadi , Sudhir Mudur , Rahaf Aljundi , Eugene Belilovsky