iCaRL: Incremental Classifier and Representation Learning

A major open problem on the road to artificial intelligence is the development of incrementally learning systems that learn about more and more concepts over time from a stream of data. In this work, we introduce a new training strategy, iCaRL, that allows learning in such a class-incremental way: only the training data for a small number of classes has to be present at the same time and new classes can be added progressively. iCaRL learns strong classifiers and a data representation simultaneously. This distinguishes it from earlier works that were fundamentally limited to fixed data representations and therefore incompatible with deep learning architectures. We show by experiments on CIFAR-100 and ImageNet ILSVRC 2012 data that iCaRL can learn many classes incrementally over a long period of time where other strategies quickly fail.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Class Incremental Learning cifar100 iCaRL 10-stage average accuracy 63.24 # 3
Incremental Learning CIFAR-100 - 50 classes + 2 steps of 25 classes iCaRL Average Incremental Accuracy 71.33 # 4
Incremental Learning CIFAR-100-B0(5steps of 20 classes) iCaRL Average Incremental Accuracy 71.14 # 6
Incremental Learning ImageNet-100 - 50 classes + 5 steps of 10 classes iCaRL* Average Incremental Accuracy 65.56 # 5
Incremental Learning ImageNet - 10 steps iCaRL Average Incremental Accuracy 38.40 # 8
Final Accuracy 22.70 # 5
Average Incremental Accuracy Top-5 63.70 # 7
Final Accuracy Top-5 44.00 # 7
# M Params 11.68 # 2

Results from Other Papers


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Rank Source Paper Compare
Incremental Learning CIFAR-100 - 50 classes + 10 steps of 5 classes iCaRL* Average Incremental Accuracy 52.57 # 13
Incremental Learning CIFAR-100 - 50 classes + 5 steps of 10 classes iCaRL* Average Incremental Accuracy 57.17 # 12
Incremental Learning ImageNet100 - 10 steps iCaRL Average Incremental Accuracy Top-5 83.60 # 10
Final Accuracy Top-5 63.80 # 10
# M Params 11.22 # 2

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