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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
    FAT-TAG: Mitigating Forgetting in Task-Free Temporal Graph Class Incremental LearningJiyuan Feng, Zhao Liu, Dongyi Zheng … Qing LiaoKDD · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
  2. 2026
    StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video RetrievalShaokun Wang, Weili Guan, Jizhou Han … Liqiang NieSIGIR · Harbin Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · +2
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  3. 2026
    Sample-Aware Knowledge Association and Enhancement for Open-Vocabulary Continual LearningZhilin Zhu, Zhiheng Ma, Yabin Wang … Xiaopeng HongIJCV · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
  4. 2026
    ASMem: Anchor sparse memory for multi-domain knowledge editing of large language modelsGuanyu Zheng, Zhenyu Wang, Yang Zhao … Chengqing ZongNeural Networks · South China University of Technology · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
  5. 2026
    AFcl: Asynchronous federated continual learning with mobile devices across edgesYinlong Li, Siyao Cheng, H ZHANG … Zhiyong ChenAdvanced Engineering Informatics · Harbin Institute of Technology · Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry (China)
  6. 2026
    Incremental Micro-Expression Recognition: A BenchmarkZhengqin Lai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang, Xiaobai LiIEEE Transactions · Harbin Institute of Technology · Zhejiang University
  7. 2026
    Rep Deep & Machine Learning: Exemplar-Free Continual Video Action Recognition via Slow-Fast Collaborative LearningXueyi Zhang, Jianhua Zhang, Zheng Li … Huiping ZhuangAAAI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  8. 2026
    Orchestrating Prompt Expertise: Enhancing Knowledge Distillation via Expert-Guided TuningXu Meng, Jun Rao, Shuhan Qi … Xuan WangACM Transactions · Harbin Institute of Technology · Global Security Intelligence (United Kingdom) · +1
  9. 2026
    TKRL: Targeted Knowledge Rectification Learning Against Teacher-Originated Defects in Domain Continual SegmentationZhanshi Zhu, Wenjian Gu, Xiangyu Li … Shuo LiIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics · Harbin Institute of Technology · Northeast Forestry University · +1
  10. 2025
    Dual-Attention based prompt generation and catalyzing for instance-wise continual learningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangPattern Recognition · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +5
  11. 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
  12. 2025
    Generalization-Preserved Learning: Closing the Backdoor to Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Deepfake DetectionXi Zhang, Peiyin Zhu, Chengwei Zhang … Yanming GuoICCV · National University of Defense Technology · National University of Singapore · +4
  13. 2025
    When Size Matters: Balancing Storage and Performance in Continual LearningFangyuan Li, Jiyuan Kuang, Bowei Yao … Jianxing LiuChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Harbin Institute of Technology
  14. 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
  15. 2025
    Enhancing Online Continual Learning with Plug-and-Play State Space Model and Class-Conditional Mixture of DiscretizationSihao Liu, Yibo Yang, Xiaojie Li … Bernard GhanemCVPR · Harbin Institute of Technology · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · +1
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  16. 2025
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Continual Graph Learning for Resource-Limited Mobile DevicesJiyuan Feng, Xu Yang, Dongyi Zheng … Qing LiaoIEEE Transactions · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  17. 2025
    Specifying What You Know or Not for Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  18. 2025
    DCA: Dividing and Conquering Amnesia in Incremental Object DetectionAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  19. 2025
    CMT: A Memory Compression Method for Continual Knowledge Learning of Large Language ModelsDongfang Li, Zetian Sun, Xinshuo Hu … Min ZhangAAAI · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  20. 2025
    Few-Shot Audio-Visual Class-Incremental Learning with Temporal Prompting and RegularizationYawen Cui, Li Liu, Zitong Yu … Xiaopeng HongAAAI · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Great Bay University · +1
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  21. 2025
    FILP-3D: Enhancing 3D few-shot class-incremental learning with pre-trained vision-language modelsWan Xu, Tianyu Huang, Tianyuan Qu … Wangmeng ZuoPattern Recognition · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  22. 2025
    CGoFed: Constrained Gradient Optimization Strategy for Federated Class Incremental LearningJiyuan Feng, Xu Yang, Liwen Liang … Qing LiaoTKDE · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  23. 2025
    Joint Memory Optimization for Continual LearningZhiheng Ma, Yaohui Ma, Xiaopeng Hong … Shizhou ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +2
  24. 2025
    Contrastive Augmented Graph2Graph Memory Interaction for Few Shot Continual LearningBiqing Qi, Junqi Gao, Xinquan Chen … Bowen ZhouIEEE TCSVT · Tsinghua University · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  25. 2025
    HPCR: Holistic Proxy-Based Contrastive Replay for Online Continual LearningHuiwei Lin, Shanshan Feng, Baoquan Zhang … Yunming YeTNNLS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +1
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  26. 2025
    Prompt Customization for Continual LearningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangIEEE TAI · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +6
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  27. 2025
    Learning Expandable and Adaptable Representations for Continual LearningRuilong Yu, Mingyan Liu, Fei Ye … shijie zhouNeurIPS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
  28. 2025
    Exploiting Task Relationships in Continual Learning via Transferability-Aware Task EmbeddingsYanru Wu, Jianning Wang, Xiangyu Chen … Yang LiNeurIPS · Tsinghua University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +3
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  29. 2025
    An Orthogonality-Based Dual-Memory Framework for Continual Text ClassificationHan Zhang, Lei Yu, Bin Liang … Ruifeng XuIEEE Transactions · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
  30. 2025
    Prototype-based Bilevel Knowledge Distillation for Online Continual LearningXiaochen YangPoster Volume Ⅳ The 2025 Twenty-First International Confe… · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  31. 2025
    Turning the Tables: Enabling Backward Transfer via Causal-Aware LoRA in Continual LearningChaoyang Li, Runze Ye, Jianyang Qin … Qing LiaoNeurIPS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  32. 2025
    Enhancing Consistency and Mitigating Bias: A Data Replay Approach for Incremental LearningChenyang Wang, Junjun Jiang, Xingyu Hu … Xiangyang JiNeural Networks · Harbin Institute of Technology · Tsinghua University
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  33. 2024
    Class Balance Matters to Active Class-Incremental LearningZhenhong Huang, Ze Chen, Yuanze Li … Wangmeng ZuoACM MM · Harbin Institute of Technology · Megvii (China) · +2
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  34. 2025
    Continual Learning With Knowledge Distillation: A SurveySongze Li, Tonghua Su, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhongjie WangTNNLS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  35. 2024
    APM: Adaptive parameter multiplexing for class incremental learningJinghan Gao, Tao Xie, Ruifeng Li … Li-Jun ZhaoExpert Systems with Applications · Harbin Institute of Technology
  36. 2024
    Continual Learning of No-Reference Image Quality Assessment With Channel Modulation KernelHui Li, Liang Liao, Chaofeng Chen … Weisi LinIEEE TCSVT · Nanyang Technological University · Harbin Institute of Technology
  37. 2024
    Enhancing Few-Shot Classification without Forgetting Through Multi-level Contrastive ConstraintsBingzhi Chen, Haoming Zhou, Yishu Liu … Guangming LuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · South China Normal University · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  38. 2024
    QCore: Data-Efficient, On-Device Continual Calibration for Quantized Models - Extended VersionDavid Campos, Bin Yang, Tung Kieu … Christian S. JensenVLDB · Aalborg University · East China Normal University · +1
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  39. 2024
    Pseudo initialization based Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningMingwen Shao, Xinkai Zhuang, Lixu Zhang, Wangmeng ZuoComputer Vision and Image Understanding · China University of Petroleum, East China · Harbin Institute of Technology
  40. 2024
    Interactive Continual Learning: Fast and Slow ThinkingBiqing Qi, Xinquan Chen, Junqi Gao … Bowen ZhouCVPR · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  42. 2024
    Towards Non Co-occurrence Incremental Object Detection with Unlabeled In-the-Wild DataNa Dong, Yongqiang Zhang, Mingli Ding, Gim Hee LeeIJCV · Harbin Institute of Technology · National University of Singapore
  43. 2024
    Hyper-feature aggregation and relaxed distillation for class incremental learningRan Wu, Huanyu Liu, Zongcheng Yue … Chiu‐Wing ShamPattern Recognition · Harbin Institute of Technology · Heilongjiang Institute of Technology · +1
  44. 2024
    SAPT: A Shared Attention Framework for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsWeixiang Zhao, Shilong Wang, Yulin Hu … Wanxiang CheACL · Harbin Institute of Technology · XTC (China)
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  45. 2024
    Layer-Specific Knowledge Distillation for Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationQilong Wang, Yiwen Wu, Yang Liu … Qinghua HuTIP · Tianjin University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
  46. 2023
    IOB: integrating optimization transfer and behavior transfer for multi-policy reuseSiyuan Li, Hao Li, Jin Zhang … Chongjie ZhangAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems · Harbin Institute of Technology · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +2
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  47. 2023
    Pseudo Object Replay and Mining for Incremental Object DetectionDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiaopeng Hong … Weipinng WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  48. 2023
    UER: A Heuristic Bias Addressing Approach for Online Continual LearningHuiwei Lin, Shanshan Feng, Baoquan Zhang … Yunming YeACM International Conference on Multimedia · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  49. 2025
    Lifelong-MonoDepth: Lifelong Learning for Multidomain Monocular Metric Depth EstimationJunjie Hu, Chenyou Fan, Liguang Zhou … Tin Lun LamTNNLS · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · South China Normal University · +2
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  50. 2023
    One-Shot Replay: Boosting Incremental Object Detection via Retrospecting One ObjectDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiaopeng Hong … Weiping WangAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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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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