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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. 2026PDF ↗
  2. 2026
    CL-VISTA: Benchmarking Continual Learning in Video Large Language ModelsHaiyang Guo, Yichen Shi, Fei Zhu … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  3. 2025
    C-NAV: Towards Self-Evolving Continual Object Navigation in Open WorldMingming Yu, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Jing LiuNeurIPS
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  4. 2025
    Federated Continual Instruction TuningHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuICCV · Advanced Engineering (Czechia) · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics · +1
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  5. 2025
    MCITlib: Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning Library and BenchmarkHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Hongbo Zhao … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  6. 2025PDF ↗
  7. 2025
    Continual Learning for Generative AI: From LLMs to MLLMs and BeyondHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuarXiv
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  8. 2025
    LLaVA-c: Continual Improved Visual Instruction TuningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Haiyang Guo … Cheng‐Lin LiuarXiv
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  9. 2025
    Global Convergence of Continual Learning on Non-IID DataFei Zhu, Yujing Liu, Wenzhuo Liu, Zhaoxiang ZhangarXiv
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  10. 2025
    Branch-Tuning: Balancing Stability and Plasticity for Continual Self-Supervised LearningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Cheng‐Lin LiuTNNLS · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  11. 2025
    C-CLIP: Multimodal Continual Learning for Vision-Language ModelWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Longhui Wei, Qi TianICLR
  12. 2024
    PILoRA: Prototype Guided Incremental LoRA for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Cheng‐Lin LiuECCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
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  13. 2024
    Happy: A Debiased Learning Framework for Continual Generalized Category DiscoveryShi-Jie Ma, Fei Zhu, Zhun Zhong … Chenglin LiuNeurIPS
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  14. 2024
    Towards Non-Exemplar Semi-Supervised Class-Incremental LearningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Cheng‐Lin LiuarXiv
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  15. 2024
    Federated Class-Incremental Learning with Prototype Guided TransformerHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Cheng-Lin LiuarXiv
  16. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning with Self-Supervised Pre-Training and Prototype LearningWenzhuo Liu, WU Xin-jian, Fei Zhu … Cheng‐Lin LiuPattern Recognition
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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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