CEAT: Continual Expansion and Absorption Transformer for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06670v2
• Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 03:04:15 GMT
• Title: CEAT: Continual Expansion and Absorption Transformer for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning
• Authors: Xinyuan Gao, Songlin Dong, Yuhang He, Xing Wei, Yihong Gong
• Abstract summary: In real-world applications, dynamic scenarios require the models to possess the capability to learn new tasks continuously without forgetting the old knowledge. We propose a new architecture, named continual expansion and absorption transformer(CEAT) The model can learn the novel knowledge by extending the expanded-fusion layers in parallel with the frozen previous parameters. To improve the learning ability of the model, we designed a novel prototype contrastive loss to reduce the overlap between old and new classes in the feature space.
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• Abstract: In real-world applications, dynamic scenarios require the models to possess the capability to learn new tasks continuously without forgetting the old knowledge. Experience-Replay methods store a subset of the old images for joint training. In the scenario of more strict privacy protection, storing the old images becomes infeasible, which leads to a more severe plasticity-stability dilemma and classifier bias. To meet the above challenges, we propose a new architecture, named continual expansion and absorption transformer~(CEAT). The model can learn the novel knowledge by extending the expanded-fusion layers in parallel with the frozen previous parameters. After the task ends, we losslessly absorb the extended parameters into the backbone to ensure that the number of parameters remains constant. To improve the learning ability of the model, we designed a novel prototype contrastive loss to reduce the overlap between old and new classes in the feature space. Besides, to address the classifier bias towards the new classes, we propose a novel approach to generate the pseudo-features to correct the classifier. We experiment with our methods on three standard Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning~(NECIL) benchmarks. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model gets a significant improvement compared with the previous works and achieves 5.38%, 5.20%, and 4.92% improvement on CIFAR-100, TinyImageNet, and ImageNet-Subset.

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