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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
    Beyond catastrophic forgetting: A continual learning-driven multi-modal fusion model for saliency prediction in dynamic scenesNana Zhang, Yi-Xiang Wang, Dandan Zhu … Guangtao ZhaiExpert Systems with Applications · Donghua University · Tongji University · +1
  2. 2026
    Evidential Prior Guided Neural Collapse for Open World Object DetectionKewen Xia, Xiaodong Yue, Wei Liu … Yaxin PengIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai University · Tongji University
  3. 2026
    FOCUS: Frequency-Optimized Conditioning of diffUSion models for mitigating catastrophic forgetting during test-time adaptationGabriel Tjio, Jie Zhang, Xulei Yang … Qing GuoMachine Vision and Applications · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · Nanyang Technological University · +4
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  4. 2026
    PIC-CMH: Efficient Prompt-Infused Continual Cross-Modal HashingFengling Li, Wenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang … Xiaojun ChangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Technology Sydney · Shandong Normal University · +1
  5. 2025
    Prompt-Driven Bit Extension Hashing for Continual Cross-Modal RetrievalWenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li … Lei ZhuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong Normal University · Tongji University · +2
  6. 2025
    Learning New Concepts, Remembering the Old: Continual Learning for Multimodal Concept Bottleneck ModelsSongning Lai, Mingqian Liao, Zhangyi Hu … Yutao YueACM International Conference on Multimedia · Qingdao Center of Resource Chemistry and New Materials · University of Hong Kong · +3
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  7. 2025
    Graph Memory Learning: Imitating Lifelong Remembering and Forgetting of Brain NetworksJiaxing Miao, Liang Hu, Qi Zhang, Longbing CaoTPAMI · Tongji University · Macquarie University
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  8. 2025
    Towards Redundancy-Free Sub-networks in Continual LearningCheng Chen, Lianli Gao, Pengpeng Zeng … Heng Tao ShenPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tongji University
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  9. 2025
    Mitigating Knowledge Forgetting by Generative Knowledge Replay and Forgetting-aware Aggregation in Semi-Supervised Federated LearningHongquan Liu, Yixin Ren, Jihong Guan, Shuigeng ZhouIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Fudan University · Tongji University
  10. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning via Feature Knowledge PromptsJun Ma, Chaoyu Fan, Lihua Shi … Qi KangIEEE 34th Wireless and Optical Communications Conference… · Tongji University
  11. 2025
    Fast Partial-Modal Online Cross-Modal HashingFengling Li, Yang Sun, Tianshi Wang … Xiaojun ChangTIP · University of Technology Sydney · Shandong Normal University · +1
  12. 2025
    Plug-In Open-Set Cross-Modal HashingBowen Wang, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li … Jingjing LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Tongji University · University of Technology Sydney · +3
  13. 2025
    MOTION: Multi-Sculpt Evolutionary Coarsening for Federated Continual Graph LearningFrank Wan, Fengyuan Ran, Ruikang Zhang … Mang YeNeurIPS · Wuhan University · Tongji University · +2
  14. 2024
    FPPL: An Efficient and Non-IID Robust Federated Continual Learning FrameworkYuchen He, Chuyun Shen, Xiangfeng Wang, Bo JinIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · East China Normal University · Tongji University
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  15. 2024
    Memory-Based Contrastive Learning with Optimized Sampling for Incremental Few-Shot Semantic SegmentationYuxuan Zhang, Miaojing Shi, Taiyi Su, Hanli WangIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) · Tongji University
  16. 2023
    IFS-SED: Incremental Few-Shot Sound Event Detection Using Explicit Learning and CalibrationMing Feng, Kele Xu, Hengxing CaiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Tongji University · National University of Defense Technology
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  17. 2022
    A robust and anti-forgettiable model for class-incremental learningJianting Chen, Yang XiangApplied Intelligence · Tongji University
  18. 2021
    Meta-Learning-Based Incremental Few-Shot Object DetectionMeng Cheng, Hanli Wang, Long YuIEEE TCSVT · Tongji University
  19. 2020
    Learn#: A Novel incremental learning method for text classificationGuangxu Shan, Shiyao Xu, Yang Li … Yang XiangExpert Systems with Applications · Tongji University
  20. 2018
    Learn to Detect Objects IncrementallyLinting Guan, Yan Wu, Junqiao Zhao, Chen YeIEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) · Tongji 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 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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