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Hierarchical prompt composition for memory-efficient open-world continual learning in vision-language foundation models

Jul 2026 · Pattern Analysis and Applications · Vol 29 · 0 citations · 33 references
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The Hierarchical Prompt Composition Network (HPC-NET) is introduced, a parameter-efficient architecture for continual learning in open-world environments that decomposes learnable prompts into three tiers: foundational prompts that encode broad visual primitives, compositional prompts that aggregate mid-level patterns, and instance prompts that capture category-specific features.

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