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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
    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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  2. 2026
    Continual Low-Rank Adaptation Via Cumulative Unified Optimization.Yue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  3. 2026
    Multi-Level Collaborative Distillation Meets Global Workspace Model: A Unified Framework for OCILShibin Su, Guoqiang Liang, De Cheng … Lingyan RanTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  4. 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
  5. 2025
    Boosting Multi-Modal Alignment: Geometric Feature Separation for Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Chuan Qin, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  6. 2025
    Revisiting Generative Replay for Class Incremental Object DetectionShizhou Zhang, Xueqiang Lv, Yinghui Xing … Yanning ZhangCVPR · Northwestern Polytechnical University
  7. 2025
    Training Consistent Mixture-of-Experts-Based Prompt Generator for Continual LearningYue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  8. 2025
    Joint Memory Optimization for Continual LearningZhiheng Ma, Yaohui Ma, Xiaopeng Hong … Shizhou ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +2
  9. 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
  10. 2024
    Dual Supervised Contrastive Learning Based on Perturbation Uncertainty for Online Class Incremental LearningShibin Su, Zhaojie Chen, Guoqiang Liang … Yanning ZhangSpringer LNCS · Northwestern Polytechnical University
  11. 2024
    A masking, linkage and guidance framework for online class incremental learningGuoqiang Liang, Zhaojie Chen, Shibin Su … Yanning ZhangPattern Recognition · Northwestern Polytechnical University
  12. 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
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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