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Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) or continual learning is a desired capability in the real world, which requires a learning system to adapt to new tasks without forgetting former ones. While traditional CIL methods focus on visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Da-Wei Zhou , Yuanhan Zhang , Yan Wang , Jingyi Ning , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu

Catastrophic forgetting is a significant challenge in continual learning, in which a model loses prior knowledge when it is fine-tuned on new tasks. This problem is particularly critical for large language models (LLMs) undergoing continual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Süalp , Mina Rezaei

Distributed model training suffers from communication bottlenecks due to frequent model updates transmitted across compute nodes. To alleviate these bottlenecks, practitioners use gradient compression techniques like sparsification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Saurabh Agarwal , Hongyi Wang , Kangwook Lee , Shivaram Venkataraman , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates external knowledge to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs), yet systems remain susceptible to two critical flaws: providing correct answers without explicit grounded evidence and producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yibo Zhao , Jiapeng Zhu , Zichen Ding , Xiang Li

Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to adapt to emerging new classes without forgetting old ones. Traditional CIL models are trained from scratch to continually acquire knowledge as data evolves. Recently, pre-training has achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Da-Wei Zhou , Zi-Wen Cai , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan , Ziwei Liu

Prior work on fine-grained image recognition (FGIR) has established the importance of the backbone selection, but has neglected the accuracy-vs-cost trade-offs under different training and evaluation settings. In this work we conduct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Edwin Arkel Rios , Augusto Christian Surya , Oswin Gosal , Fernando Mikael , Mary Madeline Nicole , Kisoon Jang , Bo-Cheng Lai , Min-Chun Hu

Deep neural networks (DNNS) excel at learning from static datasets but struggle with continual learning, where data arrives sequentially. Catastrophic forgetting, the phenomenon of forgetting previously learned knowledge, is a primary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 S Balasubramanian , M Sai Subramaniam , Sai Sriram Talasu , Yedu Krishna P , Manepalli Pranav Phanindra Sai , Ravi Mukkamala , Darshan Gera

To effectively manage the complexities of real-world dynamic environments, continual learning must incrementally acquire, update, and accumulate knowledge from a stream of tasks of different nature without suffering from catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Chinmay Savadikar , Michelle Dai , Tianfu Wu

Class-incremental learning is dedicated to the development of deep learning models that are capable of acquiring new knowledge while retaining previously learned information. Most methods focus on balanced data distribution for each task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Linjie Li , Zhenyu Wu , Jiaming Liu , Yang Ji

Exemplar-based class-incremental learning (CIL) finetunes the model with all samples of new classes but few-shot exemplars of old classes in each incremental phase, where the "few-shot" abides by the limited memory budget. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zilin Luo , Yaoyao Liu , Bernt Schiele , Qianru Sun

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially learn new classes while avoiding catastrophic forgetting of previous knowledge. We propose to use Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) as efficient learners for CIL. MAEs were originally designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Jiang-Tian Zhai , Xialei Liu , Andrew D. Bagdanov , Ke Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Fixed representational capacity is a fundamental constraint in continual learning: practitioners must guess an appropriate model width before training, without knowing how many distinct concepts the data contains. We propose LACE…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shivnath Tathe

Class-incremental learning (CIL) has emerged as a means to learn new classes incrementally without catastrophic forgetting of previous classes. Recently, CIL has undergone a paradigm shift towards dynamic architectures due to their superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Sunyuan Qiang , Yanyan Liang , Jun Wan , Du Zhang

Continual Learning is an unresolved challenge, whose relevance increases when considering modern applications. Unlike the human brain, trained deep neural networks suffer from a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting, wherein they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shahar Shaul-Ariel , Daphna Weinshall

Catastrophic forgetting is a notorious issue in deep learning, referring to the fact that Deep Neural Networks (DNN) could forget the knowledge about earlier tasks when learning new tasks. To address this issue, continual learning has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Li Yang , Sen Lin , Junshan Zhang , Deliang Fan

This paper proposes Meta-SAGE, a novel approach for improving the scalability of deep reinforcement learning models for combinatorial optimization (CO) tasks. Our method adapts pre-trained models to larger-scale problems in test time by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jiwoo Son , Minsu Kim , Hyeonah Kim , Jinkyoo Park

Rehearsal approaches in class incremental learning (CIL) suffer from decision boundary overfitting to new classes, which is mainly caused by two factors: insufficiency of old classes data for knowledge distillation and imbalanced data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kunchi Li , Jun Wan , Shan Yu

In class-incremental learning, a model learns continuously from a sequential data stream in which new classes occur. Existing methods often rely on static architectures that are manually crafted. These methods can be prone to capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Shenyang Huang , Vincent François-Lavet , Guillaume Rabusseau

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to continuously acquire new classes without forgetting previously learned ones. A dominant paradigm involves freezing a pre-trained model and training lightweight, task-specific adapters.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Ruiqi Liu , Boyu Diao , Zijia An , Zhulin An , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

This paper studies the problem of class-incremental learning (CIL), a core setting within continual learning where a model learns a sequence of tasks, each containing a distinct set of classes. Traditional CIL methods, which do not leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Saleh Momeni , Changnan Xiao , Bing Liu