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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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  1. 2025PDF ↗
  2. 2025
    SMoLoRa: Exploring and Defying Dual Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Visual Instruction TuningZiqi Wang, C. Che, Qi Wang … Meng WangICCV · Hefei University of Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
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  3. 2025
    STCKGE: Continual knowledge graph embedding based on spatial transformationXinyan Wang, Jinshuo Liu, Kaijian Xie … Jeff Z. PanKnowledge-Based Systems · Wuhan University of Technology · Wuhan University · +1
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  4. 2025
    MLLM-CL: Continual Learning for Multimodal Large Language ModelsHongbo Zhao, Fei Zhu, Meng Wang … Zhaoxiang ZhangarXiv
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  5. 2025
    Knowledge Swapping via Learning and UnlearningXing, Mingyu, Lechao Cheng, S Y Tang … Meng WangICML
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  6. 2025
    Navigating Semantic Drift in Task-Agnostic Class-Incremental LearningFangwen Wu, Lechao Cheng, Shengeng Tang … Meng WangICML
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  7. 2024
    Densely Distilling Cumulative Knowledge for Continual LearningZenglin Shi, Pei Liu, Tong Su … Meng WangarXiv
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  8. 2022
    Continual Referring Expression Comprehension via Dual Modular MemorizationHeng Tao Shen, Cheng Chen, Peng Wang … Jingkuan SongTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  9. 2022
    CLFM: Few-Shot Object Detection via Low-Resource Contrastive Learning and Fisher Matrix Updating for Overcoming Catastrophic ForgettingMeng Wang, Qiang Wang, Haipeng LiuIEEE Access · Kunming University of Science and Technology
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  10. 2021
    A dynamic routing CapsNet based on increment prototype clustering for overcoming catastrophic forgettingMeng Wang, Zhengbing Guo, Huafeng LiIET Computer Vision · Kunming University of Science and Technology · Kunming University · +1
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  11. 2021
    Multi-task continuous learning modelZhengbing Guo, Meng WangJournal of Physics Conference Series · Kunming University of Science and Technology
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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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