Class-incremental learning (CIL) learns a classification model with training data of different classes arising progressively. Existing CIL either suffers from serious accuracy loss due to catastrophic forgetting, or invades data privacy by revisiting used exemplars. Inspired by linear learning formulations, we propose an analytic class-incremental learning (ACIL) with absolute memorization of past knowledge while avoiding breaching of data privacy (i.e., without storing historical data). The absolute memorization is demonstrated in the sense that class-incremental learning using ACIL given present data would give identical results to that from its joint-learning counterpart which consumes both present and historical samples. This equality is theoretically validated. Data privacy is ensured since no historical data are involved during the learning process. Empirical validations demonstrate ACIL's competitive accuracy performance with near-identical results for various incremental task settings (e.g., 5-50 phases). This also allows ACIL to outperform the state-of-the-art methods for large-phase scenarios (e.g., 25 and 50 phases).

Artificial neural networks thrive in solving the classification problem for a particular rigid task, acquiring knowledge through generalized learning behaviour from a distinct training phase. The resulting network resembles a static entity of knowledge, with endeavours to extend this knowledge without targeting the original task resulting in a catastrophic forgetting. Continual learning shifts this paradigm towards networks that can continually accumulate knowledge over different tasks without the need to retrain from scratch. We focus on task incremental classification, where tasks arrive sequentially and are delineated by clear boundaries. Our main contributions concern (1) a taxonomy and extensive overview of the state-of-the-art; (2) a novel framework to continually determine the stability-plasticity trade-off of the continual learner; (3) a comprehensive experimental comparison of 11 state-of-the-art continual learning methods and 4 baselines. We empirically scrutinize method strengths and weaknesses on three benchmarks, considering Tiny Imagenet and large-scale unbalanced iNaturalist and a sequence of recognition datasets. We study the influence of model capacity, weight decay and dropout regularization, and the order in which the tasks are presented, and qualitatively compare methods in terms of required memory, computation time and storage.

Although deep learning approaches have stood out in recent years due to their state-of-the-art results, they continue to suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a dramatic decrease in overall performance when training with new classes added incrementally. This is due to current neural network architectures requiring the entire dataset, consisting of all the samples from the old as well as the new classes, to update the model-a requirement that becomes easily unsustainable as the number of classes grows. We address this issue with our approach to learn deep neural networks incrementally, using new data and only a small exemplar set corresponding to samples from the old classes. This is based on a loss composed of a distillation measure to retain the knowledge acquired from the old classes, and a cross-entropy loss to learn the new classes. Our incremental training is achieved while keeping the entire framework end-to-end, i.e., learning the data representation and the classifier jointly, unlike recent methods with no such guarantees. We evaluate our method extensively on the CIFAR-100 and Im-ageNet (ILSVRC 2012) image classification datasets, and show state-of-the-art performance.

Neural networks are prone to catastrophic forgetting when trained incrementally on different tasks. Popular incremental learning methods mitigate such forgetting by retaining a subset of previously seen samples and replaying them during the training on subsequent tasks. However, this is not always possible, e.g., due to data protection regulations. In such restricted scenarios, one can employ generative models to replay either artificial images or hidden features to a classifier. In this work, we propose Genifer (GENeratIve FEature-driven image Replay), where a generative model is trained to replay images that must induce the same hidden features as real samples when they are passed through the classifier. Our technique therefore incorporates the benefits of both image and feature replay, i.e.: (1) unlike conventional image replay, our generative model explicitly learns the distribution of features that are relevant for classification; (2) in contrast to feature replay, our entire classifier remains trainable; and (3) we can leverage image-space augmentations, which increase distillation performance while also mitigating overfitting during the training of the generative model. We show that Genifer substantially outperforms the previous state of the art for various settings on the CIFAR-100 and CUB-200 datasets.

深入学习模型遭受较旧阶段中课程的灾难性遗忘，因为它们在类增量学习设置中新阶段所引入的课程中受过培训。在这项工作中，我们表明灾难性忘记对模型预测的影响随着相同图像的方向的变化而变化，这是一种新的发现。基于此，我们提出了一种新的数据集合方法，该方法结合了图像的不同取向的预测，以帮助模型保留关于先前所见的类别的进一步信息，从而减少忘记模型预测的效果。但是，如果使用传统技术训练，我们无法直接使用数据集合方法。因此，我们还提出了一种新的双重增量学习框架，涉及共同培训网络，其中包括两个增量学习目标，即类渐进式学习目标以及我们提出的数据增量学习目标。在双增量学习框架中，每个图像属于两个类，即图像类（用于类增量学习）和方向类（用于数据增量学习）。在Class-Incremental学习中，每个新阶段都会引入一组新的类，并且模型无法从较旧阶段访问完整的培训数据。在我们提出的数据增量学习中，方向类在所有阶段保持相同，并且在类 - 增量学习中的新阶段引入的数据充当了这些方向类的新培训数据。我们经验证明双增量学习框架对数据集合方法至关重要。我们将拟议的课程逐步增量学习方法应用拟议方法，并经验表明我们的框架显着提高了这些方法的性能。

Continual Learning (CL) is a field dedicated to devise algorithms able to achieve lifelong learning. Overcoming the knowledge disruption of previously acquired concepts, a drawback affecting deep learning models and that goes by the name of catastrophic forgetting, is a hard challenge. Currently, deep learning methods can attain impressive results when the data modeled does not undergo a considerable distributional shift in subsequent learning sessions, but whenever we expose such systems to this incremental setting, performance drop very quickly. Overcoming this limitation is fundamental as it would allow us to build truly intelligent systems showing stability and plasticity. Secondly, it would allow us to overcome the onerous limitation of retraining these architectures from scratch with the new updated data. In this thesis, we tackle the problem from multiple directions. In a first study, we show that in rehearsal-based techniques (systems that use memory buffer), the quantity of data stored in the rehearsal buffer is a more important factor over the quality of the data. Secondly, we propose one of the early works of incremental learning on ViTs architectures, comparing functional, weight and attention regularization approaches and propose effective novel a novel asymmetric loss. At the end we conclude with a study on pretraining and how it affects the performance in Continual Learning, raising some questions about the effective progression of the field. We then conclude with some future directions and closing remarks.

在课堂增量学习（CIL）设置中，在每个学习阶段将类别组引入模型。目的是学习到目前为止观察到的所有类别的统一模型表现。鉴于视觉变压器（VIT）在常规分类设置中的最新流行，一个有趣的问题是研究其持续学习行为。在这项工作中，我们为CIL开发了一个伪造的双蒸馏变压器，称为$ \ textrm {d}^3 \ textrm {前} $。提出的模型利用混合嵌套的VIT设计，以确保数据效率和可扩展性对小数据集和大数据集。与最近的基于VIT的CIL方法相反，我们的$ \ textrm {d}^3 \ textrm {前} $在学习新任务并仍然适用于大量增量任务时不会动态扩展其体系结构。 $ \ textrm {d}^3 \ textrm {oft} $的CIL行为的改善归功于VIT设计的两个基本变化。首先，我们将增量学习视为一个长尾分类问题，其中大多数新课程的大多数样本都超过了可用于旧课程的有限范例。为了避免对少数族裔的偏见，我们建议动态调整逻辑，以强调保留与旧任务相关的表示形式。其次，我们建议在学习跨任务进行时保留空间注意图的配置。这有助于减少灾难性遗忘，通过限制模型以将注意力保留到最歧视区域上。 $ \ textrm {d}^3 \ textrm {以前} $在CIFAR-100，MNIST，SVHN和Imagenet数据集的增量版本上获得了有利的结果。

Modern machine learning suffers from catastrophic forgetting when learning new classes incrementally. The performance dramatically degrades due to the missing data of old classes. Incremental learning methods have been proposed to retain the knowledge acquired from the old classes, by using knowledge distilling and keeping a few exemplars from the old classes. However, these methods struggle to scale up to a large number of classes. We believe this is because of the combination of two factors: (a) the data imbalance between the old and new classes, and (b) the increasing number of visually similar classes. Distinguishing between an increasing number of visually similar classes is particularly challenging, when the training data is unbalanced. We propose a simple and effective method to address this data imbalance issue. We found that the last fully connected layer has a strong bias towards the new classes, and this bias can be corrected by a linear model. With two bias parameters, our method performs remarkably well on two large datasets: ImageNet (1000 classes) and MS-Celeb-1M (10000 classes), outperforming the state-of-the-art algorithms by 11.1% and 13.2% respectively.

基于正规化的方法有利于缓解类渐进式学习中的灾难性遗忘问题。由于缺乏旧任务图像，如果分类器在新图像上产生类似的输出，它们通常会假设旧知识得到很好的保存。在本文中，我们发现他们的效果很大程度上取决于旧课程的性质：它们在彼此之间容易区分的课程上工作，但可能在更细粒度的群体上失败，例如，男孩和女孩。在SPIRIT中，此类方法将新数据项目投入到完全连接层中的权重向量中跨越的特征空间，对应于旧类。由此产生的预测在细粒度的旧课程上是相似的，因此，新分类器将逐步失去这些课程的歧视能力。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一种无记忆生成的重播策略，通过直接从旧分类器生成代表性的旧图像并结合新的分类器培训的新数据来保留细粒度的旧阶级特征。为了解决所产生的样本的均化问题，我们还提出了一种分集体损失，使得产生的样品之间的Kullback Leibler（KL）发散。我们的方法最好是通过先前的基于正规化的方法补充，证明是为了易于区分的旧课程有效。我们验证了上述关于CUB-200-2011，CALTECH-101，CIFAR-100和微小想象的设计和见解，并表明我们的策略优于现有的无记忆方法，并具有清晰的保证金。代码可在https://github.com/xmengxin/mfgr获得

人类的持续学习（CL）能力与稳定性与可塑性困境密切相关，描述了人类如何实现持续的学习能力和保存的学习信息。自发育以来，CL的概念始终存在于人工智能（AI）中。本文提出了对CL的全面审查。与之前的评论不同，主要关注CL中的灾难性遗忘现象，本文根据稳定性与可塑性机制的宏观视角来调查CL。类似于生物对应物，“智能”AI代理商应该是I）记住以前学到的信息（信息回流）; ii）不断推断新信息（信息浏览:); iii）转移有用的信息（信息转移），以实现高级CL。根据分类学，评估度量，算法，应用以及一些打开问题。我们的主要贡献涉及I）从人工综合情报层面重新检查CL; ii）在CL主题提供详细和广泛的概述; iii）提出一些关于CL潜在发展的新颖思路。

本文在课堂增量学习中使用视觉变压器（VIT）研究。令人惊讶的是，天真地应用Vit替代卷积神经网络（CNNS）导致性能下降。我们的分析揭示了三个天然使用VIT的问题：（a）vit在课程中较小时具有非常缓慢的会聚，（b）在比CNN的模型中观察到新类的更多偏差，并且（c）适当的学习率Vit太低，无法学习良好的分类器。基于此分析，我们展示了这些问题可以简单地通过使用现有技术来解决：使用卷积杆，平衡FineTuning来纠正偏置，以及分类器的更高学习率。我们的简单解决方案名为Vitil（Vit用于增量学习），为所有三类增量学习设置实现了全新的最先进的保证金，为研究界提供了强大的基线。例如，在ImageNet-1000上，我们的体内体达到69.20％的前1个精度为500个初始类别的15个初始类别，5个增量步骤（每次100个新类），表现优于leulir + dde ​​1.69％。对于10个增量步骤（100个新课程）的更具挑战性的协议，我们的方法优于PODNet 7.27％（65.13％与57.86％）。

在这个不断变化的世界中，必须不断学习新概念的能力。但是，深层神经网络在学习新类别时会遭受灾难性的遗忘。已经提出了许多减轻这种现象的作品，而其中大多数要么属于稳定性困境，要么陷入了过多的计算或储存开销。受到梯度增强算法的启发，以逐渐适应目标模型和上一个合奏模型之间的残差，我们提出了一种新颖的两阶段学习范式寄养物，使该模型能够适应新的类别。具体而言，我们首先动态扩展新模块，以适合原始模型的目标和输出之间的残差。接下来，我们通过有效的蒸馏策略删除冗余参数和特征尺寸，以维护单个骨干模型。我们在不同的设置下验证CIFAR-100和Imagenet-100/1000的方法寄养。实验结果表明，我们的方法实现了最先进的性能。代码可在以下网址获得：https：//github.com/g-u-n/eccv22-foster。

深度学习模型在逐步学习新任务时遭受灾难性遗忘。已经提出了增量学习，以保留旧课程的知识，同时学习识别新课程。一种典型的方法是使用一些示例来避免忘记旧知识。在这种情况下，旧类和新课之间的数据失衡是导致模型性能下降的关键问题。由于数据不平衡，已经设计了几种策略来纠正新类别的偏见。但是，他们在很大程度上依赖于新旧阶层之间偏见关系的假设。因此，它们不适合复杂的现实世界应用。在这项研究中，我们提出了一种假设不足的方法，即多粒性重新平衡（MGRB），以解决此问题。重新平衡方法用于减轻数据不平衡的影响；但是，我们从经验上发现，他们将拟合新的课程。为此，我们进一步设计了一个新颖的多晶正式化项，该项使模型还可以考虑除了重新平衡数据之外的类别的相关性。类层次结构首先是通过将语义或视觉上类似类分组来构建的。然后，多粒性正则化将单热标签向量转换为连续的标签分布，这反映了基于构造的类层次结构的目标类别和其他类之间的关系。因此，该模型可以学习类间的关系信息，这有助于增强新旧课程的学习。公共数据集和现实世界中的故障诊断数据集的实验结果验证了所提出的方法的有效性。

人类智慧的主食是以不断的方式获取知识的能力。在Stark对比度下，深网络忘记灾难性，而且为此原因，类增量连续学习促进方法的子字段逐步学习一系列任务，将顺序获得的知识混合成综合预测。这项工作旨在评估和克服我们以前提案黑暗体验重播（Der）的陷阱，这是一种简单有效的方法，将排练和知识蒸馏结合在一起。灵感来自于我们的思想不断重写过去的回忆和对未来的期望，我们赋予了我的能力，即我的能力来修改其重播记忆，以欢迎有关过去数据II的新信息II）为学习尚未公开的课程铺平了道路。我们表明，这些策略的应用导致了显着的改进;实际上，得到的方法 - 被称为扩展-DAR（X-DER） - 优于标准基准（如CiFar-100和MiniimAgeNet）的技术状态，并且这里引入了一个新颖的。为了更好地了解，我们进一步提供了广泛的消融研究，以证实并扩展了我们以前研究的结果（例如，在持续学习设置中知识蒸馏和漂流最小值的价值）。

Data-Free Class Incremental Learning (DFCIL) aims to sequentially learn tasks with access only to data from the current one. DFCIL is of interest because it mitigates concerns about privacy and long-term storage of data, while at the same time alleviating the problem of catastrophic forgetting in incremental learning. In this work, we introduce robust saliency guidance for DFCIL and propose a new framework, which we call RObust Saliency Supervision (ROSS), for mitigating the negative effect of saliency drift. Firstly, we use a teacher-student architecture leveraging low-level tasks to supervise the model with global saliency. We also apply boundary-guided saliency to protect it from drifting across object boundaries at intermediate layers. Finally, we introduce a module for injecting and recovering saliency noise to increase robustness of saliency preservation. Our experiments demonstrate that our method can retain better saliency maps across tasks and achieve state-of-the-art results on the CIFAR-100, Tiny-ImageNet and ImageNet-Subset DFCIL benchmarks. Code will be made publicly available.

A major open problem on the road to artificial intelligence is the development of incrementally learning systems that learn about more and more concepts over time from a stream of data. In this work, we introduce a new training strategy, iCaRL, that allows learning in such a classincremental way: only the training data for a small number of classes has to be present at the same time and new classes can be added progressively.iCaRL learns strong classifiers and a data representation simultaneously. This distinguishes it from earlier works that were fundamentally limited to fixed data representations and therefore incompatible with deep learning architectures. We show by experiments on CIFAR-100 and ImageNet ILSVRC 2012 data that iCaRL can learn many classes incrementally over a long period of time where other strategies quickly fail.

最近的自我监督学习方法能够学习高质量的图像表示，并通过监督方法关闭差距。但是，这些方法无法逐步获取新的知识 - 事实上，它们实际上主要仅用为具有IID数据的预训练阶段。在这项工作中，我们在没有额外的记忆或重放的情况下调查持续学习制度的自我监督方法。为防止忘记以前的知识，我们提出了功能正规化的使用。我们将表明，朴素的功能正则化，也称为特征蒸馏，导致可塑性的低可塑性，因此严重限制了连续的学习性能。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了预测的功能正则化，其中一个单独的投影网络确保新学习的特征空间保留了先前的特征空间的信息，同时允许学习新功能。这使我们可以防止在保持学习者的可塑性时忘记。针对应用于自我监督的其他增量学习方法的评估表明我们的方法在不同场景和多个数据集中获得竞争性能。

受到正规彩票假说（RLTH）的启发，该假说假设在密集网络中存在平稳（非二进制）子网，以实现密集网络的竞争性能，我们提出了几个播放类增量学习（FSCIL）方法。 to as \ emph {soft-subnetworks（softnet）}。我们的目标是逐步学习一系列会议，每个会议在每个课程中只包含一些培训实例，同时保留了先前学到的知识。软网络在基本训练会议上共同学习模型权重和自适应非二进制软面具，每个面具由主要和次要子网组成；前者的目的是最大程度地减少训练期间的灾难性遗忘，而后者的目的是避免在每个新培训课程中过度拟合一些样本。我们提供了全面的经验验证，表明我们的软网络通过超越基准数据集的最先进基准的性能来有效地解决了几个弹药的学习问题。

Despite significant advances, the performance of state-of-the-art continual learning approaches hinges on the unrealistic scenario of fully labeled data. In this paper, we tackle this challenge and propose an approach for continual semi-supervised learning -- a setting where not all the data samples are labeled. An underlying issue in this scenario is the model forgetting representations of unlabeled data and overfitting the labeled ones. We leverage the power of nearest-neighbor classifiers to non-linearly partition the feature space and learn a strong representation for the current task, as well as distill relevant information from previous tasks. We perform a thorough experimental evaluation and show that our method outperforms all the existing approaches by large margins, setting a strong state of the art on the continual semi-supervised learning paradigm. For example, on CIFAR100 we surpass several others even when using at least 30 times less supervision (0.8% vs. 25% of annotations).

很少有人提出了几乎没有阶级的课程学习（FSCIL），目的是使深度学习系统能够逐步学习有限的数据。最近，一位先驱声称，通常使用的基于重播的课堂学习方法（CIL）是无效的，因此对于FSCIL而言并不是首选。如果真理，这对FSCIL领域产生了重大影响。在本文中，我们通过经验结果表明，采用数据重播非常有利。但是，存储和重播旧数据可能会导致隐私问题。为了解决此问题，我们或建议使用无数据重播，该重播可以通过发电机综合数据而无需访问真实数据。在观察知识蒸馏的不确定数据的有效性时，我们在发电机培训中强加了熵正则化，以鼓励更不确定的例子。此外，我们建议使用单速样标签重新标记生成的数据。这种修改使网络可以通过完全减少交叉渗透损失来学习，从而减轻了在常规知识蒸馏方法中平衡不同目标的问题。最后，我们对CIFAR-100，Miniimagenet和Cub-200展示了广泛的实验结果和分析，以证明我们提出的效果。