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20192026
most citedClass-incremental learning: survey and performance evaluation on image classification

58 citations · 163 across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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48 papers

cs.LG2026

On the Limits of Representation-Based Test-Time Adaptation for Multimodal LLMs

Mikołaj Piórczyński, Wojciech Masarczyk, Damian Sójka +2

Vision-language models suffer significant accuracy drops under common corruptions. While test-time adaptation (TTA) successfully mitigates these shifts in CLIP-like contrastive mod…

cs.CV2026

Does Physics Live in the Activations? Localizing Physical Quantities in Video Diffusion Models

Jonas Kneifl, Jakub Skalski, Bartłomiej Twardowski +1

Video generation models produce strikingly realistic sequences and are increasingly proposed as world models, yet recent benchmarks reveal pronounced deficits in their physical rea…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking the Teacher-Student Framework for Test-Time Adaptation

Damian Sójka, Marc Masana, Bartłomiej Twardowski +1

Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) has recently emerged as a promising strategy that allows the adaptation of pre-trained models to changing data distributions at deployment time, without…

cs.CV2026

Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Models

Sergi Masip, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen +4

Traditionally, continual learning has assumed access to labeled data, yet many real-world applications -- such as lifelong robotics -- require models to adapt continuously from unl…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Classification: Dynamic Adapter Routing for Continual Multimodal Retrieval

Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Filip Szatkowski, Sebastian Cygert +2

While retrieval is a core function of vision-language models, continually updating these models for retrieval tasks remains critically underexplored. Existing work often approaches…

cs.LG2026

Online Continual Learning with Dynamic Label Hierarchies

Xinrui Wang, Shao-Yuan Li, Bartłomiej Twardowski +2

Online Continual Learning (OCL) aims to learn from endless non\text{-}stationary data streams, yet most existing methods assume a flat label space and overlook the hierarchical org…

cs.CV2026

Project and Mix: Task-Semantic Prototypes for Few-Shot Image Classification

Dipam Goswami, Simone Magistri, Gido M. van de Ven +4

Vision-language models like CLIP are trained with the objective of aligning text and image pairs. Beyond text prompts alone, recent works show that exploiting few-shot image embedd…

cs.CV2026

IsoCLIP: Decomposing CLIP Projectors for Efficient Intra-modal Alignment

Simone Magistri, Dipam Goswami, Marco Mistretta +3

Vision-Language Models like CLIP are extensively used for inter-modal tasks which involve both visual and text modalities. However, when the individual modality encoders are applie…

cs.LG2025

Backdoor Vectors: a Task Arithmetic View on Backdoor Attacks and Defenses

Stanisław Pawlak, Jan Dubiński, Daniel Marczak +1

Model merging (MM) recently emerged as an effective method for combining large deep learning models. However, it poses significant security risks. Recent research shows that it is…

cs.CV2025

Accurate and Efficient Low-Rank Model Merging in Core Space

Aniello Panariello, Daniel Marczak, Simone Magistri +5

In this paper, we address the challenges associated with merging low-rank adaptations of large neural networks. With the rise of parameter-efficient adaptation techniques, such as…

cs.CR2025

Addressing The Devastating Effects Of Single-Task Data Poisoning In Exemplar-Free Continual Learning

Stanisław Pawlak, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Tomasz Trzciński +1

Our research addresses the overlooked security concerns related to data poisoning in continual learning (CL). Data poisoning - the intentional manipulation of training data to affe…

cs.IR2025

Query Drift Compensation: Enabling Compatibility in Continual Learning of Retrieval Embedding Models

Dipam Goswami, Liying Wang, Bartłomiej Twardowski +1

Text embedding models enable semantic search, powering several NLP applications like Retrieval Augmented Generation by efficient information retrieval (IR). However, text embedding…

cs.LG2025

No Task Left Behind: Isotropic Model Merging with Common and Task-Specific Subspaces

Daniel Marczak, Simone Magistri, Sebastian Cygert +3

Model merging integrates the weights of multiple task-specific models into a single multi-task model. Despite recent interest in the problem, a significant performance gap between…

cs.CV2024

The Art of Deception: Color Visual Illusions and Diffusion Models

Alex Gomez-Villa, Kai Wang, Alejandro C. Parraga +4

Visual illusions in humans arise when interpreting out-of-distribution stimuli: if the observer is adapted to certain statistics, perception of outliers deviates from reality. Rece…

cs.LG2024

Covariances for Free: Exploiting Mean Distributions for Training-free Federated Learning

Dipam Goswami, Simone Magistri, Kai Wang +3

Using pre-trained models has been found to reduce the effect of data heterogeneity and speed up federated learning algorithms. Recent works have explored training-free methods usin…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Task-recency bias strikes back: Adapting covariances in Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning

Grzegorz Rypeść, Sebastian Cygert, Tomasz Trzciński +1

Exemplar-Free Class Incremental Learning (EFCIL) tackles the problem of training a model on a sequence of tasks without access to past data. Existing state-of-the-art methods repre…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MagMax: Leveraging Model Merging for Seamless Continual Learning

Daniel Marczak, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Tomasz Trzciński +1

This paper introduces a continual learning approach named MagMax, which utilizes model merging to enable large pre-trained models to continuously learn from new data without forget…

cs.LG2024

Realistic Evaluation of Test-Time Adaptation Algorithms: Unsupervised Hyperparameter Selection

Sebastian Cygert, Damian Sójka, Tomasz Trzciński +1

Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) has recently emerged as a promising strategy for tackling the problem of machine learning model robustness under distribution shifts by adapting the mode…

cs.CV2024

Exemplar-free Continual Representation Learning via Learnable Drift Compensation

Alex Gomez-Villa, Dipam Goswami, Kai Wang +3

Exemplar-free class-incremental learning using a backbone trained from scratch and starting from a small first task presents a significant challenge for continual representation le…

cs.CV2024

Resurrecting Old Classes with New Data for Exemplar-Free Continual Learning

Dipam Goswami, Albin Soutif--Cormerais, Yuyang Liu +3

Continual learning methods are known to suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a phenomenon that is particularly hard to counter for methods that do not store exemplars of previous t…

cs.CV2024

Calibrating Higher-Order Statistics for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with Pre-trained Vision Transformers

Dipam Goswami, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Joost van de Weijer

Few-shot class-incremental learning (FSCIL) aims to adapt the model to new classes from very few data (5 samples) without forgetting the previously learned classes. Recent works in…

cs.LG2024

Improving Continual Learning Performance and Efficiency with Auxiliary Classifiers

Filip Szatkowski, Yaoyue Zheng, Fei Yang +3

Continual learning is crucial for applying machine learning in challenging, dynamic, and often resource-constrained environments. However, catastrophic forgetting - overwriting pre…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

GUIDE: Guidance-based Incremental Learning with Diffusion Models

Bartosz Cywiński, Kamil Deja, Tomasz Trzciński +2

We introduce GUIDE, a novel continual learning approach that directs diffusion models to rehearse samples at risk of being forgotten. Existing generative strategies combat catastro…

cs.LG2024★ 11 cited

Divide and not forget: Ensemble of selectively trained experts in Continual Learning

Grzegorz Rypeść, Sebastian Cygert, Valeriya Khan +3

Class-incremental learning is becoming more popular as it helps models widen their applicability while not forgetting what they already know. A trend in this area is to use a mixtu…