arXiv:2602.00573cs.LGcs.CV2026-02

提出新任务:让模型学会识别同一类物种的形态变化。

When Classes Evolve: A Benchmark and Framework for Stage-Aware Class-Incremental Learning

  • 将类别学习分为不同形态阶段,显式建模类内演化过程。
  • 在10个领域、两阶段数据集上测试,发现传统方法严重遗忘阶段特征。
  • 设计记忆池分离身份与演化,可从早期形态预测后期形态。

类别增量学习(CIL)旨在逐步学习新类别,同时缓解对旧知识的灾难性遗忘。传统方法隐含假设类别形态恒定,主要关注保留已有表征。然而现实中,同一语义类别的实例可能经历显著形态演变,如幼虫变蝴蝶。因此,模型需既区分不同类别,又能适应单类别内的形态演化。为此,我们提出阶段感知增量学习(Stage-CIL),即每个类别通过多个形态阶段逐步学习。我们构建了涵盖10个领域的双阶段基准(Stage-Bench)及评估协议,用于衡量跨类别遗忘和类内阶段退化。此外,提出STAGE模型,通过固定大小的记忆池解耦语义身份与演化动态,实现从早期表征预测后期形态。大量实验表明,传统CIL方法及现有持续学习基线在该设定下表现不足,而STAGE持续优于强竞争模型,证明显式建模演化的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to sequentially learn new classes while mitigating catastrophic forgetting of previously learned knowledge. Conventional CIL approaches implicitly assume that classes are morphologically static, focusing primarily on preserving previously learned representations as new classes are introduced. In practice, however, instances of the same semantic class may undergo substantial morphological evolution, such as a larva turning into a butterfly. Consequently, a model must both discriminate between classes and adapt to evolving appearances within a single class. To systematically address this challenge, we formalize Stage-Aware CIL (Stage-CIL), a paradigm in which each class is learned progressively through distinct morphological stages. We further introduce Stage-Bench, a 10-domain, two-stage benchmark and protocol for evaluating both inter-class forgetting and stage-level degradation within classes. Finally, we propose STAGE, an evolution-aware reference baseline that disentangles semantic identity from evolution dynamics through a fixed-size memory pool, enabling stage-aware prediction of later morphological forms from earlier representations. Extensive experiments show that conventional CIL reductions and existing continual-learning baselines remain insufficient under Stage-CIL, while STAGE consistently outperforms strong competitors, demonstrating the promise of explicit evolution-aware modeling for this new setting.

增量学习形态演化记忆机制

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