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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. 2026
    Energy-Structured Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual LearningLonghua Li, Lei Qi, Qi Tian, Xin GengICML
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  2. 2026
    Vision-Language Efficient Tuning for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multi-Modal LearningYaoming Wang, Yuchen Liu, Wenrui Dai … Hongkai XiongIJCV · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Huawei Technologies (China)
  3. 2025
    Revisiting Continual Semantic Segmentation with Pre-trained Vision ModelsDuzhen Zhang, Yong Ren, Wei Cong … Tie-Lin ZhangarXiv
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  4. 2025
    C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language ModelWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Longhui Wei, Qi TianICLR
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  6. 2023
    Rethinking Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning With Open-Set Hypothesis in Hyperbolic GeometryYawen Cui, Zitong Yu, Wei Peng … Li LiuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · Great Bay University · +3
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  9. 2023
    Learnable Distribution Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningBinghao Liu, Boyu Yang, Lingxi Xie … Qixiang YeTPAMI · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Huawei Technologies (China)
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  10. 2023
    On Representation-Level Forgetting in Class Incremental Learning: What's the Bottleneck?Zixuan Ni, Haizhou Shi, Longhui Wei … Siliang TangSocial Science Research Network · First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University
  11. 2024
    Deep Class-Incremental Learning From Decentralized DataXiaohan Zhang, Songlin Dong, Jinjie Chen … Xiaopeng HongTNNLS · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Huawei Technologies (China) · +1
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  12. 2020
    MgSvF: Multi-Grained Slow versus Fast Framework for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningHanbin Zhao, Yongjian Fu, Mintong Kang … Xi LiTPAMI · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Huawei Technologies (China)
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  13. 2019
    An End-to-End Architecture for Class-Incremental Object Detection with Knowledge DistillationHao Yu, Yanwei Fu, Yu–Gang Jiang, Qi TianIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Fudan University · Jilian Technology Group (China) · +1
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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