ResearchResearch paperLarge Language Models · Multimodal Models1 source · Oct 19, 2026

Generalizing Multimodal Foundational Models in Context-Driven Class Incremental Learning

Motivated by this, we propose a framework that generalizes frozen MFMs to audio-visual CIL.

Key points

  • Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) aims to learn new classes continuously without forgetting the previously learned ones.
  • Recent works in CIL have significantly advanced across various modalities; however, at the intersection of audio-visual modality, this problem remains underexplored.
  • While representations from multimodal foundational models (MFMs) encapsulate rich static priors, our preliminary analysis shows that these representations struggle in incremental settings.
  • Specifically, we leverage their dense audio and visual representations and employ an attention-based contextual guidance module, in which the audio representations serve as task-stable contextual guidance for the visual representations, enabling effective class recognition in the incremental setting.

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