CALA: A Class-Aware Logit Adapter for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

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Main Authors: Liu, Chengyan, Zhao, Linglan, Lyu, Fan, Du, Kaile, Hu, Fuyuan, Zhou, Tao
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author Liu, Chengyan
Zhao, Linglan
Lyu, Fan
Du, Kaile
Hu, Fuyuan
Zhou, Tao
author_facet Liu, Chengyan
Zhao, Linglan
Lyu, Fan
Du, Kaile
Hu, Fuyuan
Zhou, Tao
contents Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) defines a practical but challenging task where models are required to continuously learn novel concepts with only a few training samples. Due to data scarcity, existing FSCIL methods resort to training a backbone with abundant base data and then keeping it frozen afterward. However, the above operation often causes the backbone to overfit to base classes while overlooking the novel ones, leading to severe confusion between them. To address this issue, we propose Class-Aware Logit Adapter (CALA). Our method involves a lightweight adapter that learns to rectify biased predictions through a pseudo-incremental learning paradigm. In the real FSCIL process, we use the learned adapter to dynamically generate robust balancing factors. These factors can adjust confused novel instances back to their true label space based on their similarity to base classes. Specifically, when confusion is more likely to occur in novel instances that closely resemble base classes, greater rectification is required. Notably, CALA operates on the classifier level, preserving the original feature space, thus it can be flexibly plugged into most of the existing FSCIL works for improved performance. Experiments on three benchmark datasets consistently validate the effectiveness and flexibility of CALA. Codes will be available upon acceptance.
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spellingShingle CALA: A Class-Aware Logit Adapter for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
Liu, Chengyan
Zhao, Linglan
Lyu, Fan
Du, Kaile
Hu, Fuyuan
Zhou, Tao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) defines a practical but challenging task where models are required to continuously learn novel concepts with only a few training samples. Due to data scarcity, existing FSCIL methods resort to training a backbone with abundant base data and then keeping it frozen afterward. However, the above operation often causes the backbone to overfit to base classes while overlooking the novel ones, leading to severe confusion between them. To address this issue, we propose Class-Aware Logit Adapter (CALA). Our method involves a lightweight adapter that learns to rectify biased predictions through a pseudo-incremental learning paradigm. In the real FSCIL process, we use the learned adapter to dynamically generate robust balancing factors. These factors can adjust confused novel instances back to their true label space based on their similarity to base classes. Specifically, when confusion is more likely to occur in novel instances that closely resemble base classes, greater rectification is required. Notably, CALA operates on the classifier level, preserving the original feature space, thus it can be flexibly plugged into most of the existing FSCIL works for improved performance. Experiments on three benchmark datasets consistently validate the effectiveness and flexibility of CALA. Codes will be available upon acceptance.
title CALA: A Class-Aware Logit Adapter for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12654