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Continual learning remains constrained by the need for repeated retraining, high computational costs, and the persistent challenge of forgetting. These factors significantly limit the applicability of continuous learning in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shishir Muralidhara , Didier Stricker , René Schuster

Class incremental learning (CIL) aims to incrementally update a trained model with the new classes of samples (plasticity) while retaining previously learned ability (stability). To address the most challenging issue in this goal, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yuhang Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Feng Hong , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

In class-incremental learning (CIL) scenarios, the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting caused by the classifier's bias towards the current task has long posed a significant challenge. It is mainly caused by the characteristic of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Xusheng Cao , Haori Lu , Linlan Huang , Xialei Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

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

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to enable AI models to continuously learn from sequentially arriving data of different classes over time while retaining previously acquired knowledge. Recently, Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Huaijie Wang , De Cheng , Lingfeng He , Yan Li , Jie Li , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to continually learn a sequence of tasks, with each task consisting of a set of unique classes. Graph CIL (GCIL) follows the same setting but needs to deal with graph tasks (e.g., node classification in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen , Bing Liu

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially acquire knowledge of new classes without forgetting previously learned ones. Despite recent progress, current CIL methods still exhibit significant performance gaps compared to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Zihuan Qiu , Yi Xu , Fanman Meng , Runtong Zhang , Linfeng Xu , Qingbo Wu , Hongliang Li

Catastrophic forgetting remains a fundamental challenge in continual learning, in which models often forget previous knowledge when fine-tuned on a new task. This issue is especially pronounced in class incremental learning (CIL), which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amirhosein Javadi , Tuomas Oikarinen , Tara Javidi , Tsui-Wei Weng

Class incremental learning (CIL) trains a network on sequential tasks with separated categories in each task but suffers from catastrophic forgetting, where models quickly lose previously learned knowledge when acquiring new tasks. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Huiping Zhuang , Yizhu Chen , Di Fang , Run He , Kai Tong , Hongxin Wei , Ziqian Zeng , Cen Chen

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

Continual Imitation Learning (CiL) involves extracting and accumulating task knowledge from demonstrations across multiple stages and tasks to achieve a multi-task policy. With recent advancements in foundation models, there has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Daehee Lee , Minjong Yoo , Woo Kyung Kim , Wonje Choi , Honguk Woo

Classifying pill categories from real-world images is crucial for various smart healthcare applications. Although existing approaches in image classification might achieve a good performance on fixed pill categories, they fail to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Trong-Tung Nguyen , Hieu H. Pham , Phi Le Nguyen , Thanh Hung Nguyen , Minh Do

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of AI systems, particularly by bridging visual input with human-understandable concepts, effectively acting as a form of multimodal interpretability model. However, existing CBMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Songning Lai , Mingqian Liao , Zhangyi Hu , Jiayu Yang , Wenshuo Chen , Hongru Xiao , Jianheng Tang , Haicheng Liao , Yutao Yue

This paper investigates the problem of class-incremental object detection for agricultural applications where a model needs to learn new plant species and diseases incrementally without forgetting the previously learned ones. We adapt two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mathieu Pagé Fortin

Continual learning is a challenging problem in which models need to be trained on non-stationary data across sequential tasks for class-incremental learning. While previous methods have focused on using either regularization or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shentong Mo , Weiguo Pian , Yapeng Tian

Continual learning aims to accumulate knowledge over a data stream while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. In Non-exemplar Class Incremental Learning (NECIL), forgetting arises during incremental optimization because old classes are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Haori Lu , Xusheng Cao , Linlan Huang , Enguang Wang , Fei Yang , Xialei Liu

With the explosion of digital data in recent years, continuously learning new tasks from a stream of data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge has become increasingly important. In this paper, we propose a new continual learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Shixiang Tang , Dapeng Chen , Hakan Bilen , Rui Zhao

Continual learning (CL) has emerged as a pivotal paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt to evolving knowledge and sequential tasks while mitigating catastrophic forgetting-a critical limitation of the static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hongyang Chen , Zhongwu Sun , Hongfei Ye , Kunchi Li , Xuemin Lin

Continual learning (CL) enables models to adapt to new tasks and environments without forgetting previously learned knowledge. While current CL setups have ignored the relationship between labels in the past task and the new task with or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Byung Hyun Lee , Okchul Jung , Jonghyun Choi , Se Young Chun

Real-world data streams naturally include the repetition of previous concepts. From a Continual Learning (CL) perspective, repetition is a property of the environment and, unlike replay, cannot be controlled by the agent. Nowadays, the…