arXiv:2606.27095v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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, or freeze a backbone after the first task, producing features biased toward the initial classes. These choices also create a computational tension: drift-compensation methods require repeated backbone training and increasingly expensive updates as the task horizon grows, w
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