CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

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Autores principales: Bao, Kexin, Zhang, Daichi, Zhang, Hansong, Li, Yong, Yue, Yutao, Ge, Shiming
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author Bao, Kexin
Zhang, Daichi
Zhang, Hansong
Li, Yong
Yue, Yutao
Ge, Shiming
author_facet Bao, Kexin
Zhang, Daichi
Zhang, Hansong
Li, Yong
Yue, Yutao
Ge, Shiming
contents Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) receives significant attention from the public to perform classification continuously with a few training samples, which suffers from the key catastrophic forgetting problem. Existing methods usually employ an external memory to store previous knowledge and treat it with incremental classes equally, which cannot properly preserve previous essential knowledge. To solve this problem and inspired by recent distillation works on knowledge transfer, we propose a framework termed \textbf{C}onstrained \textbf{D}ataset \textbf{D}istillation (\textbf{CD$^2$}) to facilitate FSCIL, which includes a dataset distillation module (\textbf{DDM}) and a distillation constraint module~(\textbf{DCM}). Specifically, the DDM synthesizes highly condensed samples guided by the classifier, forcing the model to learn compacted essential class-related clues from a few incremental samples. The DCM introduces a designed loss to constrain the previously learned class distribution, which can preserve distilled knowledge more sufficiently. Extensive experiments on three public datasets show the superiority of our method against other state-of-the-art competitors.
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spellingShingle CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
Bao, Kexin
Zhang, Daichi
Zhang, Hansong
Li, Yong
Yue, Yutao
Ge, Shiming
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) receives significant attention from the public to perform classification continuously with a few training samples, which suffers from the key catastrophic forgetting problem. Existing methods usually employ an external memory to store previous knowledge and treat it with incremental classes equally, which cannot properly preserve previous essential knowledge. To solve this problem and inspired by recent distillation works on knowledge transfer, we propose a framework termed \textbf{C}onstrained \textbf{D}ataset \textbf{D}istillation (\textbf{CD$^2$}) to facilitate FSCIL, which includes a dataset distillation module (\textbf{DDM}) and a distillation constraint module~(\textbf{DCM}). Specifically, the DDM synthesizes highly condensed samples guided by the classifier, forcing the model to learn compacted essential class-related clues from a few incremental samples. The DCM introduces a designed loss to constrain the previously learned class distribution, which can preserve distilled knowledge more sufficiently. Extensive experiments on three public datasets show the superiority of our method against other state-of-the-art competitors.
title CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08519