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Contrastive Learning (CL) has been proved to be a powerful self-supervised approach for a wide range of domains, including computer vision and graph representation learning. However, the incremental learning issue of CL has rarely been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Cheng Ji , Jianxin Li , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Phillip S. Yu

Exemplar-free class-incremental learning is very challenging due to the negative effect of catastrophic forgetting. A balance between stability and plasticity of the incremental process is needed in order to obtain good accuracy for past as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Grégoire Petit , Adrian Popescu , Hugo Schindler , David Picard , Bertrand Delezoide

To effectively manage the complexities of real-world dynamic environments, continual learning must incrementally acquire, update, and accumulate knowledge from a stream of tasks of different nature without suffering from catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Chinmay Savadikar , Michelle Dai , Tianfu Wu

Deep neural networks suffer from the major limitation of catastrophic forgetting old tasks when learning new ones. In this paper we focus on class incremental continual learning in semantic segmentation, where new categories are made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Umberto Michieli , Pietro Zanuttigh

We tackle the problem of class incremental learning (CIL) in the realm of landcover classification from optical remote sensing (RS) images in this paper. The paradigm of CIL has recently gained much prominence given the fact that data are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 S Divakar Bhat , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Avik Bhattacharya

Imitation learning has been a trend recently, yet training a generalist agent across multiple tasks still requires large-scale expert demonstrations, which are costly and labor-intensive to collect. To address the challenge of limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yifan Ye , Jun Cen , Jing Chen , Zhihe Lu

In real-world clinical settings, traditional deep learning-based classification methods struggle with diagnosing newly introduced disease types because they require samples from all disease classes for offline training. Class incremental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sana Ayromlou , Teresa Tsang , Purang Abolmaesumi , Xiaoxiao Li

Class-incremental learning (CIL) learns a classification model with training data of different classes arising progressively. Existing CIL either suffers from serious accuracy loss due to catastrophic forgetting, or invades data privacy by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Huiping Zhuang , Zhenyu Weng , Hongxin Wei , Renchunzi Xie , Kar-Ann Toh , Zhiping Lin

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) is proposed to continually learn from novel classes with only a few samples after the (pre-)training on base classes with sufficient data. However, this remains a challenge. In contrast, humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yixiong Zou , Shanghang Zhang , Haichen Zhou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Standard deep learning-based classification approaches require collecting all samples from all classes in advance and are trained offline. This paradigm may not be practical in real-world clinical applications, where new classes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Sana Ayromlou , Purang Abolmaesumi , Teresa Tsang , Xiaoxiao Li

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 is dedicated to the development of deep learning models that are capable of acquiring new knowledge while retaining previously learned information. Most methods focus on balanced data distribution for each task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Linjie Li , Zhenyu Wu , Jiaming Liu , Yang Ji

Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) aims to mitigate catastrophic forgetting in class-incremental learning (CIL) without available historical training samples as exemplars. Compared with its exemplar-based CIL counterpart that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Run He , Di Fang , Yizhu Chen , Kai Tong , Cen Chen , Yi Wang , Lap-pui Chau , Huiping Zhuang

Humans are capable of acquiring new knowledge and transferring learned knowledge into different domains, incurring a small forgetting. The same ability, called Continual Learning, is challenging to achieve when operating with neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jary Pomponi , Alessio Devoto , Simone Scardapane

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, particularly deep neural networks, have pushed the boundaries of what is achievable in complex tasks. Traditional methods for training neural networks in classification problems often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jaouad Dabounou

In robotic manipulation, acquiring samples is extremely expensive because it often requires interacting with the real world. Traditional image-level data augmentation has shown the potential to improve sample efficiency in various machine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Mingxi Jia , Dian Wang , Guanang Su , David Klee , Xupeng Zhu , Robin Walters , Robert Platt

Despite the recent success on image classification, self-training has only achieved limited gains on structured prediction tasks such as neural machine translation (NMT). This is mainly due to the compositionality of the target space, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Minkai Xu , Mingxuan Wang , Zhouhan Lin , Hao Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Lei Li

Catastrophic forgetting remains a central challenge in continual learning (CL) with pre-trained models. While existing approaches typically freeze the backbone and fine-tune a small number of parameters to mitigate forgetting, they still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiao Chen , Jiayi He , Fangfang Chen , Zuohong Lv , Jianhua Tang

Continual learning algorithms aim to learn from a sequence of tasks. In order to avoid catastrophic forgetting, most existing approaches rely on heuristics and do not provide computable learning guarantees. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jacob Comeau , Mathieu Bazinet , Pascal Germain , Cem Subakan

When incrementally trained on new classes, deep neural networks are subject to catastrophic forgetting which leads to an extreme deterioration of their performance on the old classes while learning the new ones. Using a small memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Quentin Jodelet , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata