Adaptive Decision Boundary for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

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Autori principali: Li, Linhao, Tan, Yongzhang, Yang, Siyuan, Cheng, Hao, Dong, Yongfeng, Yang, Liang
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Li, Linhao
Tan, Yongzhang
Yang, Siyuan
Cheng, Hao
Dong, Yongfeng
Yang, Liang
author_facet Li, Linhao
Tan, Yongzhang
Yang, Siyuan
Cheng, Hao
Dong, Yongfeng
Yang, Liang
contents Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims to continuously learn new classes from a limited set of training samples without forgetting knowledge of previously learned classes. Conventional FSCIL methods typically build a robust feature extractor during the base training session with abundant training samples and subsequently freeze this extractor, only fine-tuning the classifier in subsequent incremental phases. However, current strategies primarily focus on preventing catastrophic forgetting, considering only the relationship between novel and base classes, without paying attention to the specific decision spaces of each class. To address this challenge, we propose a plug-and-play Adaptive Decision Boundary Strategy (ADBS), which is compatible with most FSCIL methods. Specifically, we assign a specific decision boundary to each class and adaptively adjust these boundaries during training to optimally refine the decision spaces for the classes in each session. Furthermore, to amplify the distinctiveness between classes, we employ a novel inter-class constraint loss that optimizes the decision boundaries and prototypes for each class. Extensive experiments on three benchmarks, namely CIFAR100, miniImageNet, and CUB200, demonstrate that incorporating our ADBS method with existing FSCIL techniques significantly improves performance, achieving overall state-of-the-art results.
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spellingShingle Adaptive Decision Boundary for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
Li, Linhao
Tan, Yongzhang
Yang, Siyuan
Cheng, Hao
Dong, Yongfeng
Yang, Liang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) aims to continuously learn new classes from a limited set of training samples without forgetting knowledge of previously learned classes. Conventional FSCIL methods typically build a robust feature extractor during the base training session with abundant training samples and subsequently freeze this extractor, only fine-tuning the classifier in subsequent incremental phases. However, current strategies primarily focus on preventing catastrophic forgetting, considering only the relationship between novel and base classes, without paying attention to the specific decision spaces of each class. To address this challenge, we propose a plug-and-play Adaptive Decision Boundary Strategy (ADBS), which is compatible with most FSCIL methods. Specifically, we assign a specific decision boundary to each class and adaptively adjust these boundaries during training to optimally refine the decision spaces for the classes in each session. Furthermore, to amplify the distinctiveness between classes, we employ a novel inter-class constraint loss that optimizes the decision boundaries and prototypes for each class. Extensive experiments on three benchmarks, namely CIFAR100, miniImageNet, and CUB200, demonstrate that incorporating our ADBS method with existing FSCIL techniques significantly improves performance, achieving overall state-of-the-art results.
title Adaptive Decision Boundary for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10976