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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. 2026
    Is One Score Enough? Rethinking the Evaluation of Sequentially Evolving LLM MemorySongwei Dong, Zihan Chen, Chengshuai Shi … Cong ShenarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Better Matching, Less Forgetting: A Quality-Guided Matcher for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Peng WangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Medrobotics (United States)
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  3. 2023
    Teacher Agent: A Knowledge Distillation-Free Framework for Rehearsal-Based Video Incremental LearningShengqin Jiang, Yaoyu Fang, Haokui Zhang … Peng WangIJCV · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +3
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  4. 2026
    Ability Transfer and Recovery via Modularized Parameters LocalizationSongyao Jin, Kun Zhou, Wenqi Li … Biwei HuangarXiv
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  5. 2026
    Continual Low-Rank Adaptation Via Cumulative Unified Optimization.Yue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  6. 2026
    Lifelong person re-identification via dynamically knowledge adaptation and retentionZhiyu Chen, Bingliang Jiao, Wenxuan Wang, Peng WangNeural Networks
  7. 2026
    Towards understanding memory buffer based continual learningGuodong Zheng, Peng Wang, Tao Sun, Li ShenNeural Networks · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
  8. 2026
    VPT-NSP2++: Importance-Aware Visual Prompt Tuning in Null Space for Continual LearningShizhou Zhang, Yue Lu, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  9. 2025
    Evaluating Forgetting in Pretrained Robotic Policy Networks: A Continual Learning Study with OctoYu Ding, Lingqiao Liu, Peng Wang, Lei WangInternational Conference on Digital Image Computing: Tech… · University of Wollongong · The University of Adelaide · +1
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  11. 2025
    Gradient Decomposition and Alignment for Incremental Object DetectionWenlong Luo, Xicheng Zhang, De Cheng … Y ZhangICCV · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  12. 2025
    CoLeCLIP: Open-Domain Continual Learning via Joint Task Prompt and Vocabulary LearningYukun Li, Guansong Pang, Wei Suo … Peng WangTNNLS · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Singapore Management University · +2
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  14. 2025
    Enhancing Feature Learning With Hard Samples in Mutual Learning for Online Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Shibin Su, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  15. 2024
    Dynamic Textual Prompt For Rehearsal-free Lifelong Person Re-identificationHongyu Chen, Bingliang Jiao, Wenxuan Wang, Peng WangarXiv
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  16. 2024
    Sustainable Self-evolution Adversarial TrainingWenxuan Wang, Chenglei Wang, Huihui Qi … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University
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  17. 2024
    Towards Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding via Incremental DistillationJiajun Liu, Wenjun Ke, Peng Wang … Yanhe LiuAAAI · Southeast University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  18. 2024
    Unify Named Entity Recognition Scenarios via Contrastive Real-Time Updating PrototypeYanhe Liu, Peng Wang, Wenjun Ke … Ziyu ShangAAAI · Southeast University · Nanjing University of Finance and Economics
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  19. 2023
    Optimal Policy Replay: A Simple Method to Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Incremental Visual NavigationXinting Li, Shizhou Zhang, Yue Lu … Yanning ZhangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Northwestern Polytechnical University
  20. 2023
    Online Noisy Continual Relation LearningGuozheng Li, Peng Wang, Qiqing Luo … Wenjun KeAAAI · Southeast University
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  21. 2023
    Continual Learning for Anthropomorphic Hand GraspingWanyi Li, Wei Wei, Peng WangIEEE TCDS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +3
  22. 2023
    Neuro-inspired continual anthropomorphic graspingWanyi Li, Wei Wei, Peng WangiScience · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +3
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  23. 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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  24. 2021
    Continual Neural Mapping: Learning An Implicit Scene Representation from Sequential ObservationsZike Yan, Yuxin Tian, Xuesong Shi … Hongbin ZhaICCV · King University · Peking University · +1
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  25. 2021
    Selecting Useful Knowledge from Previous Tasks for Future Learning in a Single NetworkFeifei Shi, Peng Wang, Zhongchao Shi, Yong RuiICPR · Lenovo (China)
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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