Balancing the Causal Effects in Class-Incremental Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10063v1
• Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:30:45 GMT
• Title: Balancing the Causal Effects in Class-Incremental Learning
• Authors: Junhao Zheng, Ruiyan Wang, Chongzhi Zhang, Huawen Feng, Qianli Ma
• Abstract summary: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is a practical and challenging problem for achieving general artificial intelligence. We show that the crux lies in the imbalanced causal effects between new and old data. We propose Balancing the Causal Effects (BaCE) in CIL to alleviate this problem.
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• Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) is a practical and challenging problem for achieving general artificial intelligence. Recently, Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) have led to breakthroughs in both visual and natural language processing tasks. Despite recent studies showing PTMs' potential ability to learn sequentially, a plethora of work indicates the necessity of alleviating the catastrophic forgetting of PTMs. Through a pilot study and a causal analysis of CIL, we reveal that the crux lies in the imbalanced causal effects between new and old data. Specifically, the new data encourage models to adapt to new classes while hindering the adaptation of old classes. Similarly, the old data encourages models to adapt to old classes while hindering the adaptation of new classes. In other words, the adaptation process between new and old classes conflicts from the causal perspective. To alleviate this problem, we propose Balancing the Causal Effects (BaCE) in CIL. Concretely, BaCE proposes two objectives for building causal paths from both new and old data to the prediction of new and classes, respectively. In this way, the model is encouraged to adapt to all classes with causal effects from both new and old data and thus alleviates the causal imbalance problem. We conduct extensive experiments on continual image classification, continual text classification, and continual named entity recognition. Empirical results show that BaCE outperforms a series of CIL methods on different tasks and settings.

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