Consistency-Driven Calibration and Matching for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Qinzhe, Chen, Zixuan, Huang, Keke, Su, Xiu, Yang, Chunhua, Xu, Chang
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author Wang, Qinzhe
Chen, Zixuan
Huang, Keke
Su, Xiu
Yang, Chunhua
Xu, Chang
author_facet Wang, Qinzhe
Chen, Zixuan
Huang, Keke
Su, Xiu
Yang, Chunhua
Xu, Chang
contents Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is crucial for adapting to the complex open-world environments. Contemporary prospective learning-based space construction methods struggle to balance old and new knowledge, as prototype bias and rigid structures limit the expressive capacity of the embedding space. Different from these strategies, we rethink the optimization dilemma from the perspective of feature-structure dual consistency, and propose a Consistency-driven Calibration and Matching (ConCM) framework that systematically mitigates the knowledge conflict inherent in FSCIL. Specifically, inspired by hippocampal associative memory, we design a memory-aware prototype calibration that extracts generalized semantic attributes from base classes and reintegrates them into novel classes to enhance the conceptual center consistency of features. Further, to consolidate memory associations, we propose dynamic structure matching, which adaptively aligns the calibrated features to a session-specific optimal manifold space, ensuring cross-session structure consistency. This process requires no class-number priors and is theoretically guaranteed to achieve geometric optimality and maximum matching. On large-scale FSCIL benchmarks including mini-ImageNet, CIFAR100 and CUB200, ConCM achieves state-of-the-art performance, with harmonic accuracy gains of up to 3.41% in incremental sessions. Code is available at: https://github.com/wire-wqz/ConCM
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spellingShingle Consistency-Driven Calibration and Matching for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
Wang, Qinzhe
Chen, Zixuan
Huang, Keke
Su, Xiu
Yang, Chunhua
Xu, Chang
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
68T40
I.2.6; I.4.9
Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning (FSCIL) is crucial for adapting to the complex open-world environments. Contemporary prospective learning-based space construction methods struggle to balance old and new knowledge, as prototype bias and rigid structures limit the expressive capacity of the embedding space. Different from these strategies, we rethink the optimization dilemma from the perspective of feature-structure dual consistency, and propose a Consistency-driven Calibration and Matching (ConCM) framework that systematically mitigates the knowledge conflict inherent in FSCIL. Specifically, inspired by hippocampal associative memory, we design a memory-aware prototype calibration that extracts generalized semantic attributes from base classes and reintegrates them into novel classes to enhance the conceptual center consistency of features. Further, to consolidate memory associations, we propose dynamic structure matching, which adaptively aligns the calibrated features to a session-specific optimal manifold space, ensuring cross-session structure consistency. This process requires no class-number priors and is theoretically guaranteed to achieve geometric optimality and maximum matching. On large-scale FSCIL benchmarks including mini-ImageNet, CIFAR100 and CUB200, ConCM achieves state-of-the-art performance, with harmonic accuracy gains of up to 3.41% in incremental sessions. Code is available at: https://github.com/wire-wqz/ConCM
title Consistency-Driven Calibration and Matching for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
68T40
I.2.6; I.4.9
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19558