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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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  4. 2026
    Multi-Task Unified Domain Incremental Learning With Domain Difference AdaptersXiang Song, Yuhang He, Lin Peng, Yihong GongTIP · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  5. 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
  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 2025
    Learning Endogenous Attention for Incremental Object DetectionXiang Song, Yuhang He, Jingyuan Li … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  12. 2025
    Class-Independent Increment: An Efficient Approach for Multi-label Class-Incremental LearningDing, Chenhao, Songlin Dong, Zhengdong Zhou … Yihong GongarXiv
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  13. 2025
    Analogical Augmentation and Significance Analysis for Online Task-Free Continual LearningSonglin Dong, Yingjie Chen, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Nanyang Technological University
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  14. 2025
    ExPaMoE: An Expandable Parallel Mixture of Experts for Continual Test-Time AdaptationJianchao Zhao, Chenhao Ding, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongarXiv
  15. 2024
    CEAT: Continual Expansion and Absorption Transformer for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningSonglin Dong, Xinyuan Gao, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Nanyang Technological University
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  16. 2024
    Non-exemplar Domain Incremental Learning via Cross-Domain Concept IntegrationQiang Wang, Yuhang He, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongECCV · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  18. 2024
    DYSON: Dynamic Feature Space Self-Organization for Online Task-Free Class Incremental LearningYuhang He, Yingjie Chen, Yuhan Jin … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  19. 2024
    Evolving Parameterized Prompt Memory for Continual LearningMuhammad Rifki Kurniawan, Xiang Song, Zhiheng Ma … Xing WeiAAAI · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  20. 2024
    Non-exemplar Domain Incremental Object Detection via Learning Domain BiasXiang Song, Yuhang He, Songlin Dong, Yihong GongAAAI · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  21. 2024
    Analogical Learning-Based Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJiashuo Li, Songlin Dong, Yihong Gong … Xing WeiIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  22. 2024
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting for Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningXiang Song, Kuang Shu, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongWACV · Xi'an Jiaotong University · China Power Engineering Consulting Group (China) · +1
  23. 2023
    Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental Learning via Adaptive Old Class ReconstructionShaokun Wang, Weiwei Shi, Yuhang He … Yihong GongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Xi'an University of Technology
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  24. 2023
    Domain Incremental Object Detection Based on Feature Space Topology Preserving StrategyLi Ding, Xiang Song, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  25. 2023
    DKT: Diverse Knowledge Transfer Transformer for Class Incremental LearningXinyuan Gao, Yuhang He, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Huawei Technologies (China)
  26. 2023
    Semantic Knowledge Guided Class-Incremental LearningShaokun Wang, Weiwei Shi, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  27. 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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  28. 2023
    Model Behavior Preserving for Class-Incremental LearningYu Liu, Xiaopeng Hong, Xiaoyu Tao … Yihong GongTNNLS · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  29. 2021
    Structural Knowledge Organization and Transfer for Class-Incremental LearningYu Liu, Xiaopeng Hong, Xiaoyu Tao … Yihong GongACM MM · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  31. 2021
    Class Incremental Learning for Video Action ClassificationJiawei Ma, Xiaoyu Tao, Jianxing Ma … Yihong GongICIP · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  32. 2021
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Relation Knowledge DistillationSonglin Dong, Xiaopeng Hong, Xiaoyu Tao … Yihong GongAAAI · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  33. 2021
    Class-Incremental Learning with Topological Schemas of Memory SpacesXinyuan Chang, Xiaoyu Tao, Xiaopeng Hong … Yihong GongICPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  34. 2020
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXiaoyu Tao, Xiaopeng Hong, Xinyuan Chang … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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  35. 2020
    Bi-Objective Continual Learning: Learning 'New' While Consolidating 'Known'Xiaoyu Tao, Xiaopeng Hong, Xinyuan Chang, Yihong GongAAAI · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  36. 2020
    Topology-Preserving Class-Incremental LearningXiaoyu Tao, Xinyuan Chang, Xiaopeng Hong … Yihong GongECCV · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  37. 2020
    Supplementary Material for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXiaoyu Tao, Xiaopeng Hong, Xinyuan Chang … Peng ChengPreprint
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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