论文详情
- 英文标题
- Random Anchors with Low-rank Decorrelated Learning: A Minimalist Pipeline for Class-Incremental Medical Image Classification
- 作者
- Xinyao Wu, Zhe Xu, Raymond Kai-yu Tong
- 期刊/会议
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- 发表年份
- 2026 年
- 研究方向
- trustworthy medical AI
ICLR 2026 Poster accepted paper at ICLR 2026. Class-incremental learning (CIL) in medical image-guided diagnosis requires models to preserve knowledge of historical disease classes while adapting to emerging categories. Pre-trained models (PTMs) with well-generalized features provide a strong foundation, yet most PTM-based CIL strategies, such as prompt tuning, task-specific adapters and model mixtures, rely on increasingly complex designs. While effective in general-domain benchmarks, these methods falter in medical imaging, where low intra-class variability and high inter-domain shifts (from scanners, protocols and institutions) make CIL particularly prone to representation collapse and domain misalignment. Under such conditions, we find that lightweight representation calibration strategies, often dismissed in general-domain CIL for their modest gains, can be remarkably effective for adapting PTMs in medical settings.
