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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

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

Continual learning techniques employ simple replay sample selection processes and use them during subsequent tasks. Typically, they rely on labeled data. In this paper, we depart from this by automatically selecting prototypes stored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Agil Aghasanli , Yi Li , Plamen Angelov

Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) models aim to incrementally learn new classes with scarce samples while preserving knowledge of old ones. Existing FSCIL methods usually fine-tune the entire backbone, leading to overfitting and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chenxi Liu , Zhenyi Wang , Tianyi Xiong , Ruibo Chen , Yihan Wu , Junfeng Guo , Heng Huang

Continual Learning (CL, sometimes also termed incremental learning) is a flavor of machine learning where the usual assumption of stationary data distribution is relaxed or omitted. When naively applying, e.g., DNNs in CL problems, changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Benedikt Bagus , Alexander Gepperth , Timothée Lesort

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

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

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

This paper presents a CLIP-based unsupervised learning method for annotation-free multi-label image classification, including three stages: initialization, training, and inference. At the initialization stage, we take full advantage of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Rabab Abdelfattah , Qing Guo , Xiaoguang Li , Xiaofeng Wang , Song Wang

Continual Learning (CL) methods have traditionally focused on mitigating catastrophic forgetting through gradient-based retraining, an approach ill-suited for deployed agents that must adapt in real time. We introduce our Adaptive Teaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Aman Jaglan , Jarrod Barnes

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to develop a learning system that can continually learn new classes from a data stream without forgetting previously learned classes. When learning classes incrementally, the classifier must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Minqian Liu , Lifu Huang

The ability to incrementally learn new classes is vital to all real-world artificial intelligence systems. A large portion of high-impact applications like social media, recommendation systems, E-commerce platforms, etc. can be represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Zhen Tan , Kaize Ding , Ruocheng Guo , Huan Liu

Multi-modal class-incremental learning (MMCIL) seeks to leverage multi-modal data, such as audio-visual and image-text pairs, thereby enabling models to learn continuously across a sequence of tasks while mitigating forgetting. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Xianghu Yue , Yiming Chen , Xueyi Zhang , Xiaoxue Gao , Mengling Feng , Mingrui Lao , Huiping Zhuang , Haizhou Li

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn new classes sequentially while retaining the knowledge of previously learned classes. Recently, pre-trained models (PTMs) combined with parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jiangpeng He , Zhihao Duan , Fengqing Zhu

General-purpose learning systems should improve themselves in open-ended fashion in ever-changing environments. Conventional learning algorithms for neural networks, however, suffer from catastrophic forgetting (CF), i.e., previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Kazuki Irie , Róbert Csordás , Jürgen Schmidhuber

For most real-world applications, robots need to adapt and learn continually with limited data in their environments. In this paper, we consider the problem of Few-Shot class Incremental Learning (FSIL), in which an AI agent is required to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Ali Ayub , Alan R. Wagner

Continual learning aims to enable a model to incrementally learn knowledge from sequentially arrived data. Previous works adopt the conventional classification architecture, which consists of a feature extractor and a classifier. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Runqi Wang , Xiaoyue Duan , Guoliang Kang , Jianzhuang Liu , Shaohui Lin , Songcen Xu , Jinhu Lv , Baochang Zhang

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

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

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) struggles with catastrophic forgetting when learning new knowledge, and Data-Free CIL (DFCIL) is even more challenging without access to the training data of previously learned classes. Though recent DFCIL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Qiankun Gao , Chen Zhao , Bernard Ghanem , Jian Zhang