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We consider class incremental learning (CIL) problem, in which a learning agent continuously learns new classes from incrementally arriving training data batches and aims to predict well on all the classes learned so far. The main challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Hongjoon Ahn , Jihwan Kwak , Subin Lim , Hyeonsu Bang , Hyojun Kim , Taesup Moon

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

Incremental learning is useful if an AI agent needs to integrate data from a stream. The problem is non trivial if the agent runs on a limited computational budget and has a bounded memory of past data. In a deep learning approach, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Eden Belouadah , Adrian Popescu

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among participants while guaranteeing the privacy of raw data. Mainstream FL methodologies overlook the dynamic nature of real-world data, particularly its tendency to grow in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhiyuan Wu , Tianliu He , Sheng Sun , Yuwei Wang , Min Liu , Bo Gao , Xuefeng Jiang

Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) is one of the most successful meta-learning techniques for few-shot learning. It uses gradient descent to learn commonalities between various tasks, enabling the model to learn the meta-initialization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Lin Ding , Peng Liu , Wenfeng Shen , Weijia Lu , Shengbo Chen

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

In this paper, we propose to tackle the challenging few-shot learning (FSL) problem by learning global class representations using both base and novel class training samples. In each training episode, an episodic class mean computed from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Tiange Luo , Aoxue Li , Tao Xiang , Weiran Huang , Liwei Wang

Despite the outstanding performance in many individual tasks, deep neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when learning from continuous data streams in real-world scenarios. Current Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Liang Bai , Hong Song , Yucong Lin , Tianyu Fu , Deqiang Xiao , Danni Ai , Jingfan Fan , Jian Yang

Online Class Incremental Learning (OCIL) aims to train models incrementally, where data arrive in mini-batches, and previous data are not accessible. A major challenge in OCIL is Catastrophic Forgetting, i.e., the loss of previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Huiping Zhuang , Yuchen Liu , Run He , Kai Tong , Ziqian Zeng , Cen Chen , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) trains a model to continually recognize new classes from non-stationary data while retaining learned knowledge. A major challenge of CIL arises when applying to real-world data characterized by non-uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiangpeng He , Fengqing Zhu

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

Object recognition in the real-world requires handling long-tailed or even open-ended data. An ideal visual system needs to recognize the populated head visual concepts reliably and meanwhile efficiently learn about emerging new tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Han-Jia Ye , Hexiang Hu , De-Chuan Zhan

Reinforcement learning for multi-goal robot manipulation tasks poses significant challenges due to the diversity and complexity of the goal space. Techniques such as Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) have been introduced to improve learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yingyi Kuang , Luis J. Manso , George Vogiatzis

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize new classes incrementally while maintaining the discriminability of old classes. Most existing CIL methods are exemplar-based, i.e., storing a part of old data for retraining. Without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Fei Zhu , Xu-Yao Zhang , Zhen Cheng , Cheng-Lin Liu

Continual learning aims to acquire new knowledge while retaining past information. Class-incremental learning (CIL) presents a challenging scenario where classes are introduced sequentially. For video data, the task becomes more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tieyuan Chen , Huabin Liu , Chern Hong Lim , John See , Xing Gao , Junhui Hou , Weiyao Lin

Despite significant progress in continual learning ranging from architectural novelty to clever strategies for mitigating catastrophic forgetting most existing methods rest on a strong but unrealistic assumption the availability of labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla , K S Ananth , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

We uncover an ever-overlooked deficiency in the prevailing Few-Shot Learning (FSL) methods: the pre-trained knowledge is indeed a confounder that limits the performance. This finding is rooted from our causal assumption: a Structural Causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Zhongqi Yue , Hanwang Zhang , Qianru Sun , Xian-Sheng Hua

In many real-world problems, collecting a large number of labeled samples is infeasible. Few-shot learning (FSL) is the dominant approach to address this issue, where the objective is to quickly adapt to novel categories in presence of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Learning to imitate expert behavior from demonstrations can be challenging, especially in environments with high-dimensional, continuous observations and unknown dynamics. Supervised learning methods based on behavioral cloning (BC) suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Siddharth Reddy , Anca D. Dragan , Sergey Levine

Data-Free Class Incremental Learning (DFCIL) aims to enable models to continuously learn new classes while retraining knowledge of old classes, even when the training data for old classes is unavailable. Although explored primarily with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zhenyu Lu , Hao Tang