arXiv:2607.04984cs.CV2026-07中稿 · ECCV

用虚拟类别缓解模糊样本干扰,提升持续发现新类的准确性。

Virtual Category-Guided Continual Generalized Category Discovery

论文配图:Virtual Category-Guided Continual Generalized Category Discovery
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  • 将虚拟类别思想引入持续学习,为不确定样本分配临时类别
  • 在多个数据集上优于现有方法,新类识别率显著提升
  • 适合开放世界视觉学习与持续增量学习场景

持续广义类别发现(C-GCD)旨在从连续的无标签数据中增量识别新类别,同时保留对已知类别的识别能力,是开放世界视觉学习的关键。其主要瓶颈在于难以判断归属的模糊样本,导致伪标签不可靠,易使模型偏向熟悉类别。本文提出虚拟类别引导的持续广义类别发现方法,通过引入虚拟类别学习(VCL),将不确定样本归入临时虚拟类别,实现安全且信息丰富的无标签学习,避免噪声标签干扰,提升无标签数据利用率并减轻预测偏差。为进一步稳定跨会话发现性能、增强类别分离,我们结合扩展邻域对比学习(ENCL),利用扩展邻域关系和自适应边距,学习更具区分性且分布更清晰的特征表示。在CIFAR-100、Tiny ImageNet和ImageNet-100上的大量实验表明,该方法持续优于当前最优方法,为C-GCD提供了可扩展、高效的解决方案。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Continual Generalized Category Discovery (C-GCD) aims to incrementally identify novel categories from sequential unlabeled data while preserving recognition of known classes, which is an essential capability for open-world visual learning. A major bottleneck lies in ambiguous unlabeled samples that cannot be confidently assigned to known classes nor reliably grouped as novel ones, making pseudo-labeling brittle and often biasing learning toward familiar categories. In this work, we introduce Virtual Category-Guided Continual Generalized Category Discovery by adapting Virtual Category Learning (VCL) to the continual setting. Our method identifies uncertain samples and assigns them to temporary virtual categories, enabling safe and informative learning from unlabeled streams without injecting noisy labels, while improving unlabeled data utilization and mitigating prediction bias. To further stabilize discovery across sessions and enhance class separation, we augment VCL with Expanded Neighborhood Contrastive Learning (ENCL), which exploits extended neighborhood relations and an adaptive margin to learn more discriminative and well-separated representations for both old and emerging classes. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-100, Tiny ImageNet, and ImageNet-100 demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, establishing a scalable and effective solution for C-GCD.

持续学习类别发现虚拟类别开放世界

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