Controllable Forgetting Mechanism for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15998v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:31:50 GMT
• Title: Controllable Forgetting Mechanism for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning
• Authors: Kirill Paramonov, Mete Ozay, Eunju Yang, Jijoong Moon, Umberto Michieli,
• Abstract summary: Class-incremental learning is critical for numerous real-world applications, such as smart home devices. Fine-tuning the model on novel classes often leads to the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting. We propose a simple yet effective mechanism to address this challenge by controlling the trade-off between novel and base class accuracy.
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• Abstract: Class-incremental learning in the context of limited personal labeled samples (few-shot) is critical for numerous real-world applications, such as smart home devices. A key challenge in these scenarios is balancing the trade-off between adapting to new, personalized classes and maintaining the performance of the model on the original, base classes. Fine-tuning the model on novel classes often leads to the phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting, where the accuracy of base classes declines unpredictably and significantly. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective mechanism to address this challenge by controlling the trade-off between novel and base class accuracy. We specifically target the ultra-low-shot scenario, where only a single example is available per novel class. Our approach introduces a Novel Class Detection (NCD) rule, which adjusts the degree of forgetting a priori while simultaneously enhancing performance on novel classes. We demonstrate the versatility of our solution by applying it to state-of-the-art Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning (FSCIL) methods, showing consistent improvements across different settings. To better quantify the trade-off between novel and base class performance, we introduce new metrics: NCR@2FOR and NCR@5FOR. Our approach achieves up to a 30% improvement in novel class accuracy on the CIFAR100 dataset (1-shot, 1 novel class) while maintaining a controlled base class forgetting rate of 2%.

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