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Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a promising language-supervised visual pre-training framework. This paper aims to distill small CLIP models supervised by a large teacher CLIP model. We propose several distillation…

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Class-incremental learning aims to learn new classes in an incremental fashion without forgetting the previously learned ones. Several research works have shown how additional data can be used by incremental models to help mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Quentin Jodelet , Xin Liu , Yin Jun Phua , Tsuyoshi Murata

In visual search, the gallery set could be incrementally growing and added to the database in practice. However, existing methods rely on the model trained on the entire dataset, ignoring the continual updating of the model. Besides, as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Timmy S. T. Wan , Jun-Cheng Chen , Tzer-Yi Wu , Chu-Song Chen

The recent focus on Fine-Grained Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (FG-SBIR) has shifted towards generalising a model to new categories without any training data from them. In real-world applications, however, a trained FG-SBIR model is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Parth Shah , Animesh Gupta , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Class Incremental Learning (CIL) is challenging due to catastrophic forgetting. On top of that, Exemplar-free Class Incremental Learning is even more challenging due to forbidden access to previous task data. Recent exemplar-free CIL…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zichong Meng , Jie Zhang , Changdi Yang , Zheng Zhan , Pu Zhao , Yanzhi Wang

Multimodal biomedical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit immense potential in the field of Continual Learning (CL). However, they confront a core dilemma: how to preserve fine-grained intra-modality features while bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zizhi Chen , Yizhen Gao , Minghao Han , Yizhou Liu , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Lihua Zhang

CLIP has shown impressive results in aligning images and texts at scale. However, its ability to capture detailed visual features remains limited because CLIP matches images and texts at a global level. To address this issue, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Rui Xiao , Sanghwan Kim , Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu , Zeynep Akata , Stephan Alaniz

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

Modern computer vision applications suffer from catastrophic forgetting when incrementally learning new concepts over time. The most successful approaches to alleviate this forgetting require extensive replay of previously seen data, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 James Smith , Yen-Chang Hsu , Jonathan Balloch , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Zsolt Kira

The teacher-free online Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to train an ensemble of multiple student models collaboratively and distill knowledge from each other. Although existing online KD methods achieve desirable performance, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Helong Zhou , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yongjun Xu , Qian Zhan

Continual learning (CL) learns a sequence of tasks incrementally. This paper studies the challenging CL setting of class-incremental learning (CIL). CIL has two key challenges: catastrophic forgetting (CF) and inter-task class separation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Saleh Momeni , Sahisnu Mazumder , Bing Liu

Class-incremental learning (CIL) in medical image-guided diagnosis requires retaining prior diagnostic knowledge while adapting to newly emerging disease categories, which is critical for scalable clinical deployment. This problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xinyao Wu , Zhe Xu , Cheng Chen , Jiawei Ma , Yefeng Zheng , Raymond Kai-yu Tong

Continual learning requires learning incremental tasks with dynamic data distributions. So far, it has been observed that employing a combination of contrastive loss and distillation loss for training in continual learning yields strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Yichen Wen , Zhiquan Tan , Kaipeng Zheng , Chuanlong Xie , Weiran Huang

Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

Ensemble methods are arguably the most trustworthy techniques for boosting the performance of machine learning models. Popular independent ensembles (IE) relying on naive averaging/voting scheme have been of typical choice for most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Kimin Lee , Changho Hwang , KyoungSoo Park , Jinwoo Shin

Mainstream strategies for finetuning pretrained multimodal models often degrade out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness, a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework for multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hesam Asadollahzadeh , Feng Liu , Christopher Leckie , Sarah M. Erfani

Contrastive Learning (CL) has been proved to be a powerful self-supervised approach for a wide range of domains, including computer vision and graph representation learning. However, the incremental learning issue of CL has rarely been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Cheng Ji , Jianxin Li , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Phillip S. Yu

Due to the success of large-scale visual-language pretraining (VLP) models and the widespread use of image-text retrieval in industry areas, it is now critically necessary to reduce the model size and streamline their mobile-device…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Youbo Lei , Feifei He , Chen Chen , Yingbin Mo , Si Jia Li , Defeng Xie , Haonan Lu

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

Different from fine-tuning models pre-trained on a large-scale dataset of preset classes, class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to recognize novel classes over time without forgetting pre-trained classes. However, a given model will be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiang Xiang , Yuwen Tan , Qian Wan , Jing Ma