提出几何锚定框架,让模型在不记忆旧样本时仍能稳定学习新类。
Geometry-Anchored Transport Framework for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning

- 训练中内嵌几何约束,动态调整特征分布以应对漂移。
- 在多个数据集上超越现有方法,准确率提升1.2%-3.5%。
- 适合无记忆旧样本的持续学习场景,如资源受限设备。
无示例类增量学习(EFCIL)要求在变化的特征空间中保持稳定的决策边界。尽管维持类别条件高斯统计量是一种合理的分类策略,但这些参数化摘要对各向异性表征漂移仍敏感。现有方法通常采用解耦的后处理范式传输统计量:在无显式几何约束下优化主干网络会扭曲历史流形,限制回溯对齐的精度。本文将特征传输视为内生训练约束而非独立的后期步骤,提出几何锚定传输框架。首先,通过马氏距离对齐回归推导解析几何锚点,缓解宏观各向异性漂移;其次,引入拓扑感知演化目标,在校准残差网络的同时正则化局部流形退化。通过在主训练阶段耦合流形演化与传输约束,本框架在无需解耦微调的情况下缓解评估误差。在CIFAR-100、TinyImageNet和ImageNet-100上的实验表明,该框架在严格的无示例约束下始终优于现有后处理方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Exemplar-free class-incremental learning (EFCIL) requires stable decision boundaries within a shifting feature space. While maintaining class-conditional Gaussian statistics provides a principled classification strategy, these parametric summaries remain sensitive to anisotropic representation drift. Existing methods often transport these statistics across tasks using a decoupled, post-hoc paradigm: optimizing a backbone without explicit geometric constraints can distort the legacy manifold, limiting the precision of retroactive alignment. In this paper, we formulate feature transport as an endogenous training constraint rather than a separate post-task step, presenting the Geometry-Anchored Transport Framework. First, we derive an Analytic Geometric Anchor via Mahalanobis-aligned regression to mitigate macroscopic anisotropic drift. Second, we introduce a Topology-Aware Evolution objective that regularizes localized manifold degradation while calibrating a residual network against the analytic prior. By coupling manifold evolution with transport constraints during the primary training phase, our framework mitigates evaluation errors without requiring decoupled fine-tuning. Experiments across CIFAR-100, TinyImageNet, and ImageNet-100 demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently improves upon existing post-hoc alternatives under strict exemplar-free constraints.
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