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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
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Trento · +5
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  2. 2026
    Continual Learning across multiple domains via a Dynamic Expandable and Mergeable ModelFei Ye, Ruilong Yu, Qihe Liu … Kun ZhangEng. Applications of AI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York · +2
  3. 2026
    Lifelong Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation LearningXudong Wang, Zebin Han, Zhiyu Liu … Zhi HanAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  4. 2026
    DeLo: Dual Decomposed Low-Rank Experts Collaboration for Continual Missing Modality LearningXiwei Liu, Yulong Li, Feilong Tang, Imran RazzakAAAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  5. 2026
    Learning From Each Other: Generalized Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +5
  6. 2026
    Lifelong Learning of Large Language Model Based Agents: A RoadmapJunhao Zheng, Chengming Shi, Xidi Cai … Qianli MaTPAMI · South China University of Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +2
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  7. 2026
    IAP: Improving Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Instance-Aware PromptingHao Fu, Hanbin Zhao, Jiahua Dong … Hui QianTIP · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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  8. 2026
    CRISP: Contrastive Residual Injection and Semantic Prompting for Continual Video Instance SegmentationBaichen Liu, Qi Lyu, Xudong Wang … Zhi HanTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  9. 2026
    Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Xiuyi Chen … Dong YuIEEE TAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Kyoto University · +2
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  10. 2025
    Hierarchical Visual Prompt Learning for Continual Video Instance SegmentationJiahua Dong, Hui Yin, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanICCV · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Hunan University · +3
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  11. 2025
    Rehearsal-free Federated Domain-incremental LearningRui Sun, Haoran Duan, Jiahua Dong … Rajiv RanjanIEEE 45th International Conference on Distributed Computi… · Newcastle University · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  12. 2025
    Hyperbolic Uncertainty-Aware Few-Shot Incremental Point Cloud SegmentationTanuj Sur, Samrat Kumar Mukherjee, Kaizer Rahaman … Biplab BanerjeeCVPR · Chennai Mathematical Institute · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · +2
  13. 2025
    Information-Theoretic Complementary Prompts for Improved Continual Text ClassificationDuzhen Zhang, Duzhen Zhang, Yong Ren … Tielin ZhangNeural Networks · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tencent (China) · +2
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  14. 2025
    PECTP: Parameter-Efficient Cross-Task Prompts for Incremental Vision TransformerQian Feng, Hanbin Zhao, Chao Zhang … Hui QianIEEE TCSVT · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University · +2
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  15. 2025
    Continual Unsupervised Generative Modelling via Online Optimal TransportFei Ye, Adrian G. Borş, Kun ZhangAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York · +2
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  16. 2025
    MuseumMaker: Continual Style Customization Without Catastrophic ForgettingChanglan Liu, Gan Sun, Wenqi Liang … Yang CongTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  17. 2025
    Exploring Stability-Plasticity Trade-Offs for Continual Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Chenxing Li, Jiahua Dong … Dong YuIEEE Transactions · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tencent (China) · +3
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  18. 2025
    Evolving and Regularizing Meta-Environment Learner for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningLi-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Yongxin Wang … Xin-Shun XuNeurIPS · Shandong University · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  19. 2024
    Continual Learning and Unknown Object Discovery in 3D Scenes via Self-distillationMohamed El Amine Boudjoghra, Jean Lahoud, Hisham Cholakkal … Fahad Shahbaz KhanECCV · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Aalto University · +2
  20. 2024
    Continual Learning From a Stream of APIsEnneng Yang, Zhenyi Wang, Li Shen … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · Northeastern University · University of Maryland, College Park · +4
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  21. 2024
    Create Your World: Lifelong Text-to-Image DiffusionGan Sun, Wenqi Liang, Jiahua Dong … Yang CongTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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  22. 2024
    Contrastive Continual Learning with Importance Sampling and Prototype-Instance Relation DistillationJiyong Li, Dilshod Azizov, Yang Li, Shangsong LiangAAAI · Sun Yat-sen University · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  23. 2024
    Semi-supervised Open-World Object DetectionSahal Shaji Mullappilly, Abhishek Singh Gehlot, Rao Muhammad Anwer … Hisham CholakkalAAAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Linköping University
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  24. 2024
    Task-Free Dynamic Sparse Vision Transformer for Continual LearningFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşAAAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of York
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  25. 2023
    CTP: Towards Vision-Language Continual Pretraining via Compatible Momentum Contrast and Topology PreservationHongguang Zhu, Yunchao Wei, Xiaodan Liang … Yao ZhaoICCV · Beijing Jiaotong University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  26. 2023
    D3Former: Debiased Dual Distilled Transformer for Incremental LearningAbdelrahman Mohamed, Rushali Grandhe, K. J. Joseph … Fahad Shahbaz KhanCVPR · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Adobe Systems (United States) · +1
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  27. 2023
    Lifelong Learning of Task-Parameter Relationships for Knowledge TransferShikhar Srivastava, Mohammad Yaqub, Karthik NandakumarCVPR · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
  28. 2022
    Incremental Object Detection via Meta-LearningK J Joseph, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Salman Khan … Vineeth N BalasubramanianTPAMI · Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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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. It lists only 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. 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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