针对卫星联邦增量学习遗忘问题,提出多层级缓解框架
MLFCIL: A Multi-Level Forgetting Mitigation Framework for Federated Class-Incremental Learning in LEO Satellites

- 分解遗忘成三类源,在本地/跨任务/聚合层分别应对
- 在NWPU-RESISC45上准确率更高,遗忘率显著降低
- 适合资源受限的低轨卫星分布式学习场景
低地球轨道(LEO)卫星星座正日益承担机载计算任务。然而,在严格内存与通信约束下,新类别持续涌现,给协同训练带来挑战。联邦增量学习(FCIL)可在不共享原始数据的前提下实现分布式增量学习,但面临三大LEO特有难题:由轨道动力学导致的数据非独立同分布异质性、聚合过程中加剧的灾难性遗忘,以及在资源有限条件下难以平衡稳定与可塑性。为此,我们提出MLFCIL——一种多层级遗忘缓解框架,将灾难性遗忘分解为三类来源,并在不同层面进行应对:通过类别加权损失减少本地偏差,结合特征回放与原型引导的漂移补偿进行知识蒸馏以保留跨任务知识,采用类别感知聚合策略缓解联邦过程中的遗忘。此外,设计双粒度协调策略,融合轮次级自适应损失平衡与步骤级梯度投影,进一步优化稳定-可塑性权衡。在NWPU-RESISC45数据集上的实验表明,MLFCIL在准确率与遗忘缓解方面均显著优于基线,且引入极小资源开销。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are increasingly performing on-board computing. However, the continuous emergence of new classes under strict memory and communication constraints poses major challenges for collaborative training. Federated class-incremental learning (FCIL) enables distributed incremental learning without sharing raw data, but faces three LEO-specific challenges: non-independent and identically distributed data heterogeneity caused by orbital dynamics, amplified catastrophic forgetting during aggregation, and the need to balance stability and plasticity under limited resources. To tackle these challenges, we propose MLFCIL, a multi-level forgetting mitigation framework that decomposes catastrophic forgetting into three sources and addresses them at different levels: class-reweighted loss to reduce local bias, knowledge distillation with feature replay and prototype-guided drift compensation to preserve cross-task knowledge, and class-aware aggregation to mitigate forgetting during federation. In addition, we design a dual-granularity coordination strategy that combines round-level adaptive loss balancing with step-level gradient projection to further enhance the stability-plasticity trade-off. Experiments on the NWPU-RESISC45 dataset show that MLFCIL significantly outperforms baselines in both accuracy and forgetting mitigation, while introducing minimal resource overhead.
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