arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-06-25
Data-Free Reservoir Features for Efficient Long-Horizon Cold-Start Continual Learning
Augustinas Jučas, Yangchen Pan
Cold-start exemplar-free class-incremental learning requires learning a growing set of classes without replay, external pretraining, or a large initial task. Existing cold-start methods typically either train the backbone throughout the stream and compensate for semantic drift, o…