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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. 2025
    Adaptive Store-and-Recall Memory for Domain Continual LearningShutian Zhang, Chang Li, Guoren WangInternational Conference on Big Data and Data Mining (BDDM) · Beijing Institute of Technology
  2. 2025
    Uni-IL: Unified Incremental Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture of Attribute-Guided ExpertsFanyu Meng, Yufeng Zhan, Jie Zhang … Yuanqing XiaACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Beijing Institute of Technology · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · +1
  3. 2025
    PET-GPRA: Rethinking PET with Gradient-Aware Prompting and Router-Free Adapters for Few-shot Class-Incremental LearningYishu Liu, Zhiming Chen, D. Wang … Guangming LuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Harbin Institute of Technology · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  4. 2025
    Enhancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Cross-Modal Bias AlignmentD. Wang, Zhiming Chen, Xiang Qiu … Bingzhi ChenIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Beijing Institute of Technology · Zhuhai Institute of Advanced Technology · +2
  5. 2025
    Multi-Granularity Class Prototype Topology Distillation for Class-Incremental Source-Free Unsupervised Domain AdaptationPeihua Deng, Jiehua Zhang, Xichun Sheng … L. LiCVPR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +4
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  6. 2025
    CoMBO: Conflict Mitigation via Branched Optimization for Class Incremental SegmentationKai Fang, Anqi Zhang, Guangyu Gao … Yunchao WeiCVPR · Beijing Institute of Technology · University of Birmingham · +1
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  7. 2025
    ElasticFed: Collaborative Large-Small Transformer Training for Federated Continual Learning at EdgeYunlai Cheng, Rui Han, Qinglong Zhang, Chi Harold LiuIEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communica… · Beijing Institute of Technology
  8. 2025
    A Feedback-Driven Learning Framework for Adaptive Neural Motion PlannerHuaihang Zheng, Shangfei Liu, Junzheng WangChinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) · Beijing Institute of Technology
  9. 2025
    Loci: Federated Continual Learning of Heterogeneous Tasks at EdgeYaxin Luopan, Rui Han, Qinglong Zhang … Lydia Y. ChenIEEE Transactions · Beijing Institute of Technology · Delft University of Technology
  10. 2025
    MUFTI: Multi-Domain Distillation-Based Heterogeneous Federated Continuous LearningKeke Gai, Zijun Wang, Jing Yu, Liehuang ZhuIEEE Transactions · Beijing Institute of Technology · Minzu University of China
  11. 2025
    Unveiling and Addressing Pseudo Forgetting in Large Language ModelsHuashan Sun, Yizhe Yang, Yinghao Li … Yang GaoACL · Beijing Institute of Technology
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  12. 2025
    Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMsJun Wang, Liang Ding, Shuai Wang … Bo DuNeurIPS · The University of Sydney · Wuhan University · +2
  13. 2025
    Relation-Guided Adversarial Learning for Data-Free Knowledge TransferYingping Liang, Ying FuIJCV · Beijing Institute of Technology
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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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