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Existing Class Incremental Learning (CIL) methods are based on a supervised classification framework sensitive to data labels. When updating them based on the new class data, they suffer from catastrophic forgetting: the model cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zixuan Ni , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims at learning a multi-class classifier in a phase-by-phase manner, in which only data of a subset of the classes are provided at each phase. Previous works mainly focus on mitigating forgetting in phases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yujun Shi , Kuangqi Zhou , Jian Liang , Zihang Jiang , Jiashi Feng , Philip Torr , Song Bai , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Lifelong or continual learning remains to be a challenge for artificial neural network, as it is required to be both stable for preservation of old knowledge and plastic for acquisition of new knowledge. It is common to see previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Song Zhang , Gehui Shen , Jinsong Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng

Class-incremental learning (CIL) enables models to continuously learn new categories from sequential tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. While recent advances in vision-language models such as CLIP have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Haoran Chen , Houze Xu , Micah Goldblum , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu

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

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is a practical and challenging problem for achieving general artificial intelligence. Recently, Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) have led to breakthroughs in both visual and natural language processing tasks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Junhao Zheng , Ruiyan Wang , Chongzhi Zhang , Huawen Feng , Qianli Ma

Imitation learning (IL) is a general learning paradigm for tackling sequential decision-making problems. Interactive imitation learning, where learners can interactively query for expert demonstrations, has been shown to achieve provably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yichen Li , Chicheng Zhang

Instance-incremental learning (IIL) focuses on learning continually with data of the same classes. Compared to class-incremental learning (CIL), the IIL is seldom explored because IIL suffers less from catastrophic forgetting (CF). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Qiang Nie , Weifu Fu , Yuhuan Lin , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Lei Zhu , Chengjie Wang

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

Imitation Learning (IL) has proven highly effective for robotic and control tasks where manually designing reward functions or explicit controllers is infeasible. However, standard IL methods implicitly assume that the environment dynamics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rishabh Agrawal , Yusuf Alvi , Rahul Jain , Ashutosh Nayyar

Class-incremental learning (CIL) is a particularly challenging variant of continual learning, where the goal is to learn to discriminate between all classes presented in an incremental fashion. Existing approaches often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Michał Zając , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

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

Modern machine learning suffers from catastrophic forgetting when learning new classes incrementally. The performance dramatically degrades due to the missing data of old classes. Incremental learning methods have been proposed to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Yue Wu , Yinpeng Chen , Lijuan Wang , Yuancheng Ye , Zicheng Liu , Yandong Guo , Yun Fu

Class incremental learning (CIL) requires an agent to learn distinct tasks consecutively with knowledge retention against forgetting. Problems impeding the practical applications of CIL methods are twofold: (1) non-i.i.d batch streams and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Junda Wang , Minghui Hu , Ning Li , Abdulaziz Al-Ali , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan

Continual learning (CL) studies the problem of learning a sequence of tasks, one at a time, such that the learning of each new task does not lead to the deterioration in performance on the previously seen ones while exploiting previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Ammar Shaker , Francesco Alesiani , Shujian Yu , Wenzhe Yin

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to continuously acquire new categories while preserving previously learned knowledge. Recently, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trained (CLIP) models have shown strong potential for CIL due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tianqi Wang , Jingcai Guo

Class-incremental learning (CIL) enables models to learn new classes progressively while preserving knowledge of previously learned ones. Recent advances in this field have shifted towards parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Haoran Chen , Ping Wang , Zihan Zhou , Xu Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Class incremental learning (CIL) aims to enable models to continuously learn new classes without catastrophically forgetting old ones. A promising direction is to learn and use prototypes of classes during incremental updates. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Huitong Chen , Yu Wang , Yan Fan , Guosong Jiang , Qinghua Hu

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) enables machine learning systems to expand their inference capabilities to new classes using only a few labeled examples, without forgetting the previously learned classes. Classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yoga Esa Wibowo , Cristian Cioflan , Thorir Mar Ingolfsson , Michael Hersche , Leo Zhao , Abbas Rahimi , Luca Benini

This paper investigates a new, practical, but challenging problem named Non-exemplar Online Class-incremental continual Learning (NO-CL), which aims to preserve the discernibility of base classes without buffering data examples and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Fushuo Huo , Wenchao Xu , Jingcai Guo , Haozhao Wang , Yunfeng Fan , Song Guo