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Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to prevent catastrophic forgetting of previously learned classes while sequentially incorporating new ones. The more challenging Few-shot CIL (FSCIL) setting further complicates this by providing only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Zhiwu Wang , Yichen Wu , Renzhen Wang , Haokun Lin , Quanziang Wang , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

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

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally recognize new classes using a few samples while maintaining the performance on previously learned classes. One of the effective methods to solve this challenge is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

Aiming to incrementally learn new classes with only few samples while preserving the knowledge of base (old) classes, few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) faces several challenges, such as overfitting and catastrophic forgetting.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junghun Oh , Sungyong Baik , Kyoung Mu Lee

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to design machine learning algorithms that can continually learn new concepts from a few data points, without forgetting knowledge of old classes. The difficulty lies in that limited data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Hao Chen , Linyan Li , Fan Lyu , Fuyuan Hu , Zhenping Xia , Fenglei Xu

The ability to incrementally learn new classes from limited samples is crucial to the development of artificial intelligence systems for real clinical application. Although existing incremental learning techniques have attempted to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Hao Yang , Weijian Huang , Jiarun Liu , Cheng Li , Shanshan Wang

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to acquire knowledge from novel classes with limited samples while retaining information about base classes. Existing methods address catastrophic forgetting and overfitting by freezing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Haichen Zhou , Yixiong Zou , Ruixuan Li , Yuhua Li , Kui Xiao

Few-shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) presents a unique challenge in Machine Learning (ML), as it necessitates the Incremental Learning (IL) of new classes from sparsely labeled training samples without forgetting previous knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jinghua Zhang , Li Liu , Olli Silvén , Matti Pietikäinen , Dewen Hu

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to incrementally learn novel classes from limited examples while preserving knowledge of previously learned classes. Existing methods face a critical dilemma: static architectures rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiaojie Li , Yibo Yang , Jianlong Wu , Yue Yu , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Liqiang Nie , Min Zhang

Class-incremental learning (CIL) is typically evaluated under predefined schedules with equal-sized tasks, leaving more realistic and complex cases unexplored. However, a practical CIL system should learns immediately when any number of new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhiming Xu , Baile Xu , Jian Zhao , Furao Shen , Suorong Yang

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to continually learn new classes using a few samples while not forgetting the old classes. The key of this task is effective knowledge transfer from the base session to the incremental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ye Wang , Yaxiong Wang , Guoshuai Zhao , Xueming Qian

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) faces challenges of memorizing old class distributions and estimating new class distributions given few training samples. In this study, we propose a learnable distribution calibration (LDC)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Binghao Liu , Boyu Yang , Lingxi Xie , Ren Wang , Qi Tian , Qixiang Ye

Few-shot class-incremental Learning (FSCIL) enables models to learn new classes from limited data while retaining performance on previously learned classes. Traditional FSCIL methods often require fine-tuning parameters with limited new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jizhou Han , Chenhao Ding , Yuhang He , Songlin Dong , Qiang Wang , Xinyuan Gao , Yihong Gong

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to adapt to continuously emerging new classes while preserving knowledge of previously learned ones. Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) presents a greater challenge that requires the model to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shiwon Kim , Dongjun Hwang , Sungwon Woo , Rita Singh

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims at learning to classify new classes continually from limited samples without forgetting the old classes. The mainstream framework tackling FSCIL is first to adopt the cross-entropy (CE) loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Zeyin Song , Yifan Zhao , Yujun Shi , Peixi Peng , Li Yuan , Yonghong Tian

Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) poses significant challenges, primarily due to catastrophic forgetting, necessitating a delicate balance between stability and plasticity to accurately recognize both new and previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Eduard Hogea , Adrian Popescu , Darian Onchis , Grégoire Petit

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

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) has addressed challenging real-world scenarios where unseen novel classes continually arrive with few samples. In these scenarios, it is required to develop a model that recognizes the novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Learning from large-scale pre-trained models with strong generalization ability has shown remarkable success in a wide range of downstream tasks recently, but it is still underexplored in the challenging few-shot class-incremental learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Linpu He , Yanan Li , Bingze Li , Elvis Han Cui , Donghui Wang

In this paper, we propose to tackle Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) from a new perspective, i.e., relation disentanglement, which means enhancing FSCIL via disentangling spurious relation between categories. The challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuan Zhou , Richang Hong , Yanrong Guo , Lin Liu , Shijie Hao , Hanwang Zhang