AMR-CCR: Anchored Modular Retrieval for Continual Chinese Character Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07497v1
• Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:48:32 GMT
• Title: AMR-CCR: Anchored Modular Retrieval for Continual Chinese Character Recognition
• Abstract summary: Continual Chinese Character Recognition (Continual CCR) is a script-staged, class-incremental setting.<n>We propose AMR- CCR, an anchored modular retrieval framework that performs recognition via embedding-based dictionary matching.<n>A lightweight script-conditioned injection module (SIA+SAR) calibrates newly onboarded scripts while preserving cross-stage embedding compatibility.
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• Abstract: Ancient Chinese character recognition is a core capability for cultural heritage digitization, yet real-world workflows are inherently non-stationary: newly excavated materials are continuously onboarded, bringing new classes in different scripts, and expanding the class space over time. We formalize this process as Continual Chinese Character Recognition (Continual CCR), a script-staged, class-incremental setting that couples two challenges: (i) scalable learning under continual class growth with subtle inter-class differences and scarce incremental data, and (ii) pronounced intra-class diversity caused by writing-style variations across writers and carrier conditions. To overcome the limitations of conventional closed-set classification, we propose AMR-CCR, an anchored modular retrieval framework that performs recognition via embedding-based dictionary matching in a shared multimodal space, allowing new classes to be added by simply extending the dictionary. AMR-CCR further introduces a lightweight script-conditioned injection module (SIA+SAR) to calibrate newly onboarded scripts while preserving cross-stage embedding compatibility, and an image-derived multi-prototype dictionary that clusters within-class embeddings to better cover diverse style modes. To support systematic evaluation, we build EvoCON, a six-stage benchmark for continual script onboarding, covering six scripts (OBC, BI, SS, SAC, WSC, CS), augmented with meaning/shape descriptions and an explicit zero-shot split for unseen characters without image exemplars.

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