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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
    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
  2. 2026
    Negative-weighted knowledge distillation regularized graph convolutional network for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuPattern Recognition · Southeast University · Institute of Automation · +1
  3. 2026
    GAIN: Global-Atomic INteraction Graph for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFan Lyu, Linglan Zhao, Changli Liu … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +6
  4. 2026
    Sparse Tuning Enhances Plasticity in PTM-based Continual LearningHuan Zhang, Shenghua Fan, Shuyu Dong … Fan LyuAAAI · Wuhan University · Central China Normal University · +2
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  5. 2026
    A Unified Knowledge Management Framework for Continual Learning and Machine Unlearning in Large Language ModelsJiaqi Lang, Linjing Li, Dajun ZengInformation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
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  6. 2026
    Prompt grouping for rehearsal-free continual learningYiping Meng, Chen Li, Renchun Gong, Shengsheng QianMultimedia Systems · Tianjin University of Science and Technology · Tianjin University of Technology · +7
  7. 2026
    Continual learning of multiple cognitive functions with a brain-inspired temporal development mechanismBing Han, feifei Zhao, Yinqian Sun … Yi ZengNational Science Review · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Institute of Automation · +2
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  8. 2023
    Continual Instruction Tuning for Large Multimodal ModelsJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Kuan Zhu … Jinqiao WangTIP · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation
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  9. 2026
    Constructing Enhanced Mutual Information for Online Class-Incremental LearningHuan Zhang, Fan Lyu, Shenghua Fan … Dingwen WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Wuhan University · Institute of Automation
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  10. 2026
    Spectral Disentanglement: Rank-Aware Task Adaptation for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning in LLMsHuanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao … Kang LiuACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  11. 2026
    Symmetric Image-Text Tuning With Entropy-Guided Fusion for Online Continual Learning in Non-Stationary Visual StreamsLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yujie Wei … Zhaofeng HeTIP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
  12. 2026
    Active Semi-supervised Continual Learning for Robotic Object RecognitionSangzhou Xia, Xiangli Nie, Peng WangSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
  13. 2026
    Harmonizing the Past, Present, and Future: A Null-Space Constrained Region-Specific Method for Continual Learning in LLMsJinhui Chen, Shizhu He, Xingchang Yang … Jun ZhaoACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  14. 2026
    R2A2-MoE: Ridge Regression-Based Analytic Adaptation with Mixture of Experts for Continual Learning with Vision-Language ModelsM. X. Liu, Quan Fang, Junyu Gao, Yang YangSpringer LNCS · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  15. 2025
    THMM-CLIP: Task-Guided Hierarchical Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYingdong Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM Transactions · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +2
  16. 2025
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Online Continual Learning With Dual-Margin Contrastive ReplayFan Lyu, Gongbo Cheng, Daofeng Liu … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  17. 2025
    Rethinking Class-Incremental Learning from a Dynamic Imbalanced Learning PerspectiveLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yunlong Wang … Zhaofeng HeIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  18. 2025
    FAGR: Feature-Action Generative Replay for Robot Lifelong Imitation LearningYushi Yang, Xiangli Nie, Chang LiuRA-L · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  19. 2025
    Vision-Language Navigation with Continual Learning for Unseen EnvironmentsZhiyuan Li, Yanfeng Lu, Di Shang … Hong QiaoIROS · Institute of Automation
  20. 2025
    Class-Specific Knowledge-Guided Multimodal Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFangying Xiong, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu, Changsheng XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  21. 2025
    Leveraging Multiple Deep Experts for Online Class-incremental LearningZhe Tao, Lu Yu, Hantao Yao, Changsheng XuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
  22. 2025
    Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language ModelsWu Bin, Wuxuan Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Mang YeCVPR · Wuhan University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  23. 2025
    Language Guided Concept Bottleneck Models for Interpretable Continual LearningLu Yu, Haoyu Han, Zhe Tao … Chris XuCVPR · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
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  24. 2025
    Beyond Background Shift: Rethinking Instance Replay in Continual Semantic SegmentationHongmei Yin, Tingliang Feng, Fan Lyu … Liang WanCVPR · Tianjin University · Institute of Automation
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  25. 2025
    PASS++: A Dual Bias Reduction Framework for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhen Cheng, Cheng‐Lin LiuTPAMI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  26. 2025
    Enhance the old representations' adaptability dynamically for exemplar-free continual learningKunchi Li, Chaoyue Ding, Jun Wan, Shan YuNeurocomputing · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +1
  27. 2025
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Asymmetric Supervised Contrastive LearningDuo Liu, Linglan Zhao, Zhongqiang Zhang … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent (China) · +4
  28. 2025
    Pseudo Informative Episode Construction for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningChaofan Chen, Xiaoshan Yang, Changsheng XuAAAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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  29. 2025
    Learning Temporal Event Knowledge for Continual Social Event ClassificationShengsheng Qian, Shengjie Zhang, Dizhan Xue … Changsheng XuTKDE · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  30. 2025
    Meta-weighted Prototype Contrastive Rehearsal for Online Continual LearningSangzhou Xia, Yushi Yang, Xiangli Nie, Muyao CaiIEEE 17th International Conference on Computer Research a… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation
  31. 2025
    A Continual Learning Method for Generalized Grasping Manipulation in a Musculoskeletal RobotBo Jiang, Ci Song, Siyuan Liu … Jiahao ChenIEEE Transactions · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation
  32. 2025
    Dual Uncertainty-Aware Correspondence Adapting and Retaining for Continual Composed Image RetrievalHaoliang Zhou, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng XuTIP · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  33. 2025
    Collaborative Adapter Experts for Class-Incremental LearningSunyuan Qiang, Xinxing Yu, Yanyan Liang … Du ZhangIEEE Signal Processing Letters · Macau University of Science and Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  34. 2025
    Cross-Generational Contrastive Continual Learning for 3D Point Cloud Semantic SegmentationYuan He, Guyue Hu, Shan YuSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
  35. 2025
    Similarity-based context aware continual learning for spiking neural networksBing Han, Feifei Zhao, Yang Li … Yi ZengNeural Networks · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  36. 2024
    TMM-CLIP: Task-guided Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYuankang Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +1
  37. 2024
    Information Bottleneck Based Data Correction in Continual LearningShuai Chen, Mingyi Zhang, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi HuangECCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  38. 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
  39. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning for Light-Weighted NetworksZhe Tao, Lu Yu, Hantao Yao … Changsheng XuIEEE TCSVT · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  40. 2024
    Class-incremental learning with Balanced Embedding Discrimination MaximizationQinglai Wei, Weiqin ZhangNeural Networks · Macau University of Science and Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
  41. 2024
    Towards Long-Term Remembering in Federated Continual LearningZiqin Zhao, Fan Lyu, Linyan Li … Li SunCognitive Computation · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Institute of Automation · +3
  42. 2024
    Hierarchical Augmentation and Distillation for Class Incremental Audio-Visual Video RecognitionYukun Zuo, Hantao Yao, Liansheng Zhuang, Changsheng XuTPAMI · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  43. 2024
    Task-Wise Prompt Query Function for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningShuai Chen, Mingyi Zhang, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi HuangICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  44. 2024
    ESDB: Expand the Shrinking Decision Boundary via One-to-Many Information Matching for Continual Learning With Small MemoryKunchi Li, Hongyang Chen, Jun Wan, Shan YuIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
  45. 2025
    Dual Balanced Class-Incremental Learning With im-Softmax and Angular RectificationRuicong Zhi, Yicheng Meng, Junyi Hou, Jun WanTNNLS · University of Science and Technology Beijing · National University of Singapore · +4
  46. 2024
    Exemplar-Based Continual Learning via Contrastive LearningShuai Chen, Mingyi Zhang, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi HuangIEEE TAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  47. 2024
    Large-scale continual learning for ancient Chinese character recognitionYue Xu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
  48. 2024
    SEEKR: Selective Attention-Guided Knowledge Retention for Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Kuan Zhu … Jinqiao WangEMNLP · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Institute of Automation · +1
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  49. 2024
    Spatiotemporal Orthogonal Projection Capsule Network for Incremental Few-Shot Action RecognitionYangbo Feng, Junyu Gao, Changsheng XuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
  50. 2024
    Flexible Weight Tuning and Weight Fusion Strategies for Continual Named Entity RecognitionYahan Yu, Duzhen Zhang, Xiuyi Chen, Chenhui ChuACL · Kyoto University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
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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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