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In order to learn quickly with few samples, meta-learning utilizes prior knowledge learned from previous tasks. However, a critical challenge in meta-learning is task uncertainty and heterogeneity, which can not be handled via globally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Huaxiu Yao , Ying Wei , Junzhou Huang , Zhenhui Li

Class-incremental with repetition (CIR), where previously trained classes repeatedly introduced in future tasks, is a more realistic scenario than the traditional class incremental setup, which assumes that each task contains unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Taeheon Kim , San Kim , Minhyuk Seo , Dongjae Jeon , Wonje Jeung , Jonghyun Choi

Large-scale pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, establish the correlation between texts and images, achieving remarkable success on various downstream tasks with fine-tuning. In existing fine-tuning methods, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Yi Zhang , Ce Zhang , Yushun Tang , Zhihai He

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

We introduce Neuro-Symbolic Continual Learning, where a model has to solve a sequence of neuro-symbolic tasks, that is, it has to map sub-symbolic inputs to high-level concepts and compute predictions by reasoning consistently with prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Emanuele Marconato , Gianpaolo Bontempo , Elisa Ficarra , Simone Calderara , Andrea Passerini , Stefano Teso

Multi-label class-incremental learning (MLCIL) continuously expands the label space while recognizing multiple co-occurring classes, making it prone to catastrophic forgetting and high false-positive rates (FPR). Extending CLIP to MLCIL is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kaile Du , Zihan Ye , Junzhou Xie , Yixi Shen , Yuyang Li , Fuyuan Hu , Ling Shao , Guangcan Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Fan Lyu

Vision-language models like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities in classification and retrieval. However, these models often struggle with compositional reasoning - the ability to understand the relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amit Peleg , Naman Deep Singh , Matthias Hein

In this paper, we propose a hierarchical contrastive learning framework, HiCL, which considers local segment-level and global sequence-level relationships to improve training efficiency and effectiveness. Traditional methods typically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Zhuofeng Wu , Chaowei Xiao , VG Vinod Vydiswaran

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn a classification model with the number of classes increasing phase-by-phase. An inherent problem in CIL is the stability-plasticity dilemma between the learning of old and new classes, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yaoyao Liu , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun

3D point cloud semantic segmentation technology has been widely used. However, in real-world scenarios, the environment is evolving. Thus, offline-trained segmentation models may lead to catastrophic forgetting of previously seen classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Haosheng Li , Yuecong Xu , Junjie Chen , Kemi Ding

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

Continual learning (or class incremental learning) is a realistic learning scenario for computer vision systems, where deep neural networks are trained on episodic data, and the data from previous episodes are generally inaccessible to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Aditya R. Bhattacharya , Debanjan Goswami , Shayok Chakraborty

Supervised contrastive learning (SCL) frameworks treat each class as independent and thus consider all classes to be equally important. This neglects the common scenario in which label hierarchy exists, where fine-grained classes under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Ruixue Lian , William A. Sethares , Junjie Hu

Class-incremental learning (CIL) with pre-trained models (PTMs) faces a critical trade-off between efficient adaptation and long-term stability. While analytic learning enables rapid, recursive closed-form updates, its efficacy is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Binyu Zhao , Wei Zhang , Xingrui Yu , Zhaonian Zou , Ivor Tsang

Continual learning is essential for medical image classification systems to adapt to dynamically evolving clinical environments. The integration of multimodal information can significantly enhance continual learning of image classes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Jiantao Tan , Peixian Ma , Kanghao Chen , Zhiming Dai , Ruixuan Wang

In rapidly evolving field of vision-language models (VLMs), contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) has made significant strides, becoming foundation for various downstream tasks. However, relying on one-to-one (image, text)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Haicheng Wang , Chen Ju , Weixiong Lin , Shuai Xiao , Mengting Chen , Yixuan Huang , Chang Liu , Mingshuai Yao , Jinsong Lan , Ying Chen , Qingwen Liu , Yanfeng Wang

Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (CI-UDA) aims to adapt a model from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, where the sets of potential target classes appearing at different time steps are disjoint and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Kerun Mi , Guoliang Kang , Guangyu Li , Lin Zhao , Tao Zhou , Chen Gong

Modern deep neural networks remain challenging to interpret due to the opacity of their latent representations, impeding model understanding, debugging, and debiasing. Concept Embedding Models (CEMs) address this by mapping inputs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Oscar Hill , Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga , Mateja Jamnik

The dynamic nature of open-world scenarios has attracted more attention to class incremental learning (CIL). However, existing CIL methods typically presume the availability of complete ground-truth labels throughout the training process,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jiaming Liu , Hongyuan Liu , Zhili Qin , Wei Han , Yulu Fan , Qinli Yang , Junming Shao

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