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Topology-Preserving Class-Incremental Learning

  • Xiaoyu Tao
  • , Xinyuan Chang
  • , Xiaopeng Hong
  • , Xing Wei
  • , Yihong Gong*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University
  • Peng Cheng Laboratory

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Abstract

A well-known issue for class-incremental learning is the catastrophic forgetting phenomenon, where the network’s recognition performance on old classes degrades severely when incrementally learning new classes. To alleviate forgetting, we put forward to preserve the old class knowledge by maintaining the topology of the network’s feature space. On this basis, we propose a novel topology-preserving class-incremental learning (TPCIL) framework. TPCIL uses an elastic Hebbian graph (EHG) to model the feature space topology, which is constructed with the competitive Hebbian learning rule. To maintain the topology, we develop the topology-preserving loss (TPL) that penalizes the changes of EHG’s neighboring relationships during incremental learning phases. Comprehensive experiments on CIFAR100, ImageNet, and subImageNet datasets demonstrate the power of the TPCIL for continuously learning new classes with less forgetting. The code will be released.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2020 - 16th European Conference, 2020, Proceedings
EditorsAndrea Vedaldi, Horst Bischof, Thomas Brox, Jan-Michael Frahm
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages254-270
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030585280
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: 23 Aug 202028 Aug 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12364 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period23/08/2028/08/20

Keywords

  • Class-Incremental Learning (CIL)
  • Elastic Hebbian Graph (EHG)
  • Topology-Preserving Class-Incremental Learning (TPCIL)
  • Topology-Preserving Loss (TPL)

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