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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026PDF ↗
  2. 2026
    Reasoning Portability: Guiding Continual Learning for MLLMs in the RLVR Era红秋 何, Yuyang Liu, Shuo Yang … Yonghong TianarXiv
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  3. 2026
    CL-VISTA: Benchmarking Continual Learning in Video Large Language ModelsHaiyang Guo, Yichen Shi, Fei Zhu … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  4. 2025
    C-NAV: Towards Self-Evolving Continual Object Navigation in Open WorldMingming Yu, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Jing LiuNeurIPS
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  5. 2025
    Federated Continual Instruction TuningHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuICCV · Advanced Engineering (Czechia) · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics · +1
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  6. 2025
    MCITlib: Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning Library and BenchmarkHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Hongbo Zhao … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  7. 2025PDF ↗
  8. 2025
    Continual Learning for Generative AI: From LLMs to MLLMs and BeyondHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuarXiv
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  9. 2025
    LLaVA-c: Continual Improved Visual Instruction TuningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Haiyang Guo … Cheng‐Lin LiuarXiv
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  10. 2025
    MLLM-CL: Continual Learning for Multimodal Large Language ModelsHongbo Zhao, Fei Zhu, Meng Wang … Zhaoxiang ZhangarXiv
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  11. 2025
    PASS++: A Dual Bias Reduction Framework for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhen Cheng, Cheng‐Lin LiuTPAMI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  12. 2025PDF ↗
  13. 2025
    Pareto Continual Learning: Preference-Conditioned Learning and Adaption for Dynamic Stability-Plasticity Trade-offSong Lai, Zhe Zhao, Fei Zhu … Gaofeng MengAAAI · City University of Hong Kong · City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute · +4
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  14. 2025
    Global Convergence of Continual Learning on Non-IID DataFei Zhu, Yujing Liu, Wenzhuo Liu, Zhaoxiang ZhangarXiv
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  15. 2025
    Branch-Tuning: Balancing Stability and Plasticity for Continual Self-Supervised LearningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Cheng‐Lin LiuTNNLS · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  16. 2025
    Gradient-Guided Epsilon Constraint Method for Online Continual LearningSong Lai, Changyi Ma, Fei Zhu … Qingfu ZhangNeurIPS · City University of Hong Kong · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +4
  17. 2025
    C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language ModelWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Longhui Wei, Qi TianICLR
  18. 2024
    DESIRE: Dynamic Knowledge Consolidation for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Fanhu Zeng … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  19. 2024
    PILoRA: Prototype Guided Incremental LoRA for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Cheng‐Lin LiuECCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
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  20. 2024
    Happy: A Debiased Learning Framework for Continual Generalized Category DiscoveryShi-Jie Ma, Fei Zhu, Zhun Zhong … Chenglin LiuNeurIPS
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  21. 2024
    Towards Non-Exemplar Semi-Supervised Class-Incremental LearningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Cheng‐Lin LiuarXiv
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  22. 2024
    Open-world Machine Learning: A Review and New OutlooksFei Zhu, Shijie Ma, Zhen Cheng … Liu, Cheng-LinarXiv
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  23. 2024
  24. 2024
    Federated Class-Incremental Learning with Prototype Guided TransformerHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Cheng-Lin LiuarXiv
  25. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning with Self-Supervised Pre-Training and Prototype LearningWenzhuo Liu, WU Xin-jian, Fei Zhu … Cheng‐Lin LiuPattern Recognition
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  26. 2023
    Imitating the oracle: Towards calibrated model for class incremental learningFei Zhu, Zhen Cheng, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuNeural Networks · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
  27. 2022
    HLifeRL: A hierarchical lifelong reinforcement learning frameworkFan Ding, Fei ZhuInformation Sciences · Soochow University
  28. 2021
    Calibration for Non-Exemplar Based Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  29. 2021
    Prototype Augmentation and Self-Supervision for Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Chuang Wang … Cheng‐Lin LiuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  30. 2021
    Class-Incremental Learning via Dual AugmentationFei Zhu, Zhen Cheng, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng-Lin LiuNeurIPS
About this index

We keep this list because we read the field and wanted one place to see it. It covers work on continual learning itself, in the core areas of machine learning, and leaves out papers that apply it inside another field, such as medical imaging or fault diagnosis. It lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. It is seeded from the community lists kept by ContinualAI and by Xialei Liu, then filled out from OpenAlex, and every week a script looks for new papers on OpenAlex and arXiv. A model reads each candidate and decides whether it belongs; a person reviews the additions before they go live. Authors and affiliations come from OpenAlex, so a recent preprint can lack its institutions for a week or two.

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