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The foundational work on continual learning, 1980 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  2. 2025
    D3Net: Dual-Path Decoupling-Distillation for Adaptive Fusion in Continual Egocentric LearningChenghao Qi, Heqian Qiu, Zhaofeng Shi … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  3. 2025
    DBAB: A Dual-Branch Adaptive Balance Framework with Optimized Plasticity Branch for Class-Incremental LearningXinyu Chen, Heqian Qiu, Chenghao Qi … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    OrthCal: Synergizing Orthogonal Contrastive Learning and Prototype Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningRuisong Dai, Hanwen Zhang, Xinyu Chen … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  5. 2025
    R^2MoE: Redundancy-Removal Mixture of Experts for Lifelong Concept LearningXiaohan Guo, Yusong Cai, Ze-Jia Liu … Hongliang LiarXiv
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    Enhancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Frozen Feature AugmentationShimou Ling, Shengkai Gan, Caoxin Wang … Hongliang LiCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    LoRA-Based Continual Learning with Constraints on Critical Parameter ChangesShimou Ling, Liang Zhang, Jiangwei Zhao … Hongliang LiPattern Recognition
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    Leveraging Pre-Trained Models for Multimodal Class-Incremental Learning under Adaptive FusionYukun Chen, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Qingbo WuICASSP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Adaptively forget with crossmodal and textual distillation for class-incremental video captioningHuiyu Xiong, Lanxiao Wang, Heqian Qiu … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    MINGLE: Mixture of Null-Space Gated Low-Rank Experts for Test-Time Continual Model MergingZihuan Qiu, Yidong Xu, Chiyuan He … Hongliang LiNeurIPS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Amazon (Germany) · +1
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    Multi-Stage LLM Fine-Tuning with a Continual Learning SettingChanghao Guan, Chao Huang, Hongliang Li … Jian LiuNAACL · Beijing Jiaotong University · University of Science and Technology Beijing
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    Geodesic-Aligned Gradient Projection for Continual Task LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Haitao Wen … Hongliang LiTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Distribution-Level Memory Recall for Continual Learning: Preserving Knowledge and Avoiding ConfusionShaoxu Cheng, Kanglei Geng, Chiyuan He … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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