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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
    BPG: Balancing Plasticity and Generalization for Domain Incremental LearningQiang Wang, Songlin Dong, Shaokun Wang … Yihong GongarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Is Parameter Isolation Better for Prompt-Based Continual Learning?Jiangyang Li, Chenhao Ding, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongCVPR
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  3. 2026
    Incremental Vision–Language Object Detection via Sparse Frequency TransformXiang Song, Ziye Yang, Yuhang He … Yihong GongTIP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +2
  4. 2025
    Learn by Reasoning: Analogical Weight Generation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJizhou Han, Chenhao Ding, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Shenzhen University · +2
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  5. 2025
    Max-Informative Unlabeled Sample Replay for Semi-Supervised Class-Incremental Learning in Audio ClassificationQiang Wang, Ao Shen, Dawei Feng … Huaimin WangIEEE International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing (JCC) · National University of Defense Technology
  6. 2025
    Boosting Domain Incremental Learning: Selecting the Optimal Parameters is All You NeedQiang Wang, Xiang Song, Yuhang He … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  7. 2025
    Dynamic Integration of Task-Specific Adapters for Class Incremental LearningJiashuo Li, Shaokun Wang, Bo Qian … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  8. 2025
    Learning Endogenous Attention for Incremental Object DetectionXiang Song, Yuhang He, Jingyuan Li … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  10. 2025
    Memory replay with unlabeled data for semi-supervised class-incremental learning via temporal consistencyQiang Wang, Kele Xu, Dawei Feng … Huaimin WangFrontiers of Computer Science · National University of Defense Technology
  11. 2025
    Distribution-aware Forgetting Compensation for Exemplar-Free Lifelong Person Re-identificationShiben Liu, Huijie Fan, Qiang Wang … Liang-Qiong QuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  13. 2024
    Incremental Learning for Object Detection Based on Self-Supervised LearningH. Y. Sheng, Jiapeng Zhang, Lu Wan … Qiang WangIEEE International Conference on Progress in Informatics… · Wanfang Data (China) · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
  14. 2024
    Non-exemplar Domain Incremental Learning via Cross-Domain Concept IntegrationQiang Wang, Yuhang He, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongECCV · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  15. 2024
    Domain Consistency Representation Learning for Lifelong Person Re-IdentificationShiben Liu, Huijie Fan, Qiang Wang … Yang CongIEEE TCSVT
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  17. 2024
    Traceable Federated Continual LearningQiang Wang, Bingyan Liu, Yawen LiCVPR · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  18. 2024
    Uncertainty-aware enhanced dark experience replay for continual learningQiang Wang, Zhong Ji, Yanwei Pang, Zhongfei ZhangApplied Intelligence · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
  19. 2025
    Imbalance Mitigation for Continual Learning via Knowledge Decoupling and Dual Enhanced Contrastive LearningZhong Ji, Zhanyu Jiao, Qiang Wang … Jungong HanTNNLS · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
  20. 2023
    Mutual mentor: Online contrastive distillation network for general continual learningQiang Wang, Zhong Ji, Jin Li, Yanwei PangNeurocomputing · Tianjin University · Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology
  21. 2023
    Sampled Feature Replay and Multilayer Knowledge Distillation for Class-Incremental learningWen An, Yina Yang, Ruqiao Xu … Qiang Wang2023 9th International Conference on Computing and Artifi… · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
  22. 2022
    Complementary Calibration: Boosting General Continual Learning With Collaborative Distillation and Self-SupervisionZhong Ji, Jin Li, Qiang Wang, Zhongfei ZhangTIP · Tianjin University · Binghamton University
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  23. 2022
    Learning from Students: Online Contrastive Distillation Network for General Continual LearningJin Li, Zhong Ji, Gang Wang … Feng GaoIJCAI · Tianjin University
  24. 2022
    Hierarchical Correlations Replay for Continual LearningQiang Wang, Jiayi Liu, Zhong Ji … Zhongfei ZhangKnowledge-Based Systems · Tianjin University · Shanghai Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Technology · +1
  25. 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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  26. 2021
    Coordinating Experience Replay: A Harmonious Experience Retention approach for Continual LearningZhong Ji, Jiayi Liu, Qiang Wang, Zhongfei ZhangKnowledge-Based Systems · Tianjin University · State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics · +1
  27. 2021
    Continuous Multi-View Human Action RecognitionQiang Wang, Gan Sun, Jiahua Dong … Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Shenyang University · +3
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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