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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
    D-Know: Disentangled Domain Knowledge-Aided Learning for Open-Domain Continual Object DetectionBintao He, Caixia Yan, Yan Kou … Yugui XieApplied Sciences · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Digital Video (Italy)
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    Generating samples for covariance to update prototype in few-shot class-incremental learningHong Yu, Qiwei Luo, Ye Wang, Guoyin WangApplied Intelligence · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chongqing Normal University
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    Semi-Dynamic Ensemble for Evolutionary NAS in Continual LearningDaniel Victor Ferreira, Lucas Rakotoarivony, Agathe ArchetICPR · Thales (Australia)
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    Affordance-First Decomposition for Continual Learning in Video-Language UnderstandingMengzhu Xu, Hanzhi Liu, Ningkang Peng … Canran XiaoCVPR
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    Memory-Integrated Reconfigurable Adapters: A Unified Framework for Settings with Multiple TasksSusmit Agrawal, K. Kher, Saksham Mittal … Vineeth N. BalasubramanianNeurIPS
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    Continual Deepfake Detection Based on Multi-Perspective Sample Selection MechanismYu Lian, Xinshan Zhu, Di He … Ruyi ZhangIEEE Signal Processing Letters · Tianjin University
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    Adaptive Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Qin Chen … Liang HeIEEE TCSVT · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +2
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    Learn by Reasoning: Analogical Weight Generation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJizhou Han, Chenhao Ding, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Shenzhen University · +2
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    SuRe: Surprise-Driven Prioritised Replay for Continual LLM LearningHugo Hazard, Zafeirios Fountas, Martin Benfeghoul … Haitham Bou-AmmararXiv
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    Agentic Learner with Grow-and-Refine Multimodal Semantic MemoryWeihao Bo, Shan Zhang, Yanpeng Sun … Zechao LiarXiv
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    A continual imitation learning benchmark for mobile robot navigation in sequential environmentsRui Li, Y. H. Xie, Lin Zhang … Wei ZhangRobotic Intelligence and Automation · Shandong University · University of Jinan · +1
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    Restoring Neural Network Plasticity for Faster Transfer LearningXander Coetzer, Arné Schreuder, Anna Sergeevna BosmanSpringer CCIS · University of Pretoria
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    Δ-NeRF: Incremental Refinement of Neural Radiance Fields through Residual Control and Knowledge TransferKriti Ghosh, Chakraborty, Devjyoti, Lakshmish Ramaswamy … Mishra, DeepakarXiv
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    MoTiC: Momentum Tightness and Contrast for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZeyu He, Shuai Huang, Yuwu Lu, Ming ZhaoPattern Recognition · Guilin University of Electronic Technology · South China Normal University
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    Annotation-Free Class-Incremental LearningKuchibhotla, Hari Chandana, Ananth, K S, Balasubramanian, Vineeth NarXiv
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    Condensation-Concatenation Framework for Dynamic Graph Continual LearningTingxu Yan, Y. Adam YuanInternational Symposium on Computer Engineering and Intel… · Southwest University
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    Multimodal Continual Learning with MLLMs from Multi-scenario PerspectivesJiang, Kai, Huang, Siqi, Chen, Xiangyu … Li, XuelongarXiv
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    SloMo-Fast: Slow-Momentum and Fast-Adaptive Teachers for Source-Free Continual Test-Time AdaptationIftee, Md Akil Raihan, Hossain, Mir Sazzat, Rajib, Rakibul Hasan … Rahman, AKM MahbuburarXiv
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    Continually Evolving Skill Knowledge in Vision Language Action ModelWu, Yuxuan, Wang, Guangming, Yang, Zhiheng … Wang, HeshengarXiv
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    InTAct: Interval-based Task Activation Consolidation for Continual LearningPatryk Krukowski, Jan Miksa, Peter A. van der Helm … Przemysław SpurekarXiv
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    A Dual-Branch Prototype and Logits Distillation Framework Based on VFA for Few-Shot Object DetectionYajie Wang, Zhongning Huang, Jianhang Lan … Penghui ShangICIP · Zhejiang Lab
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    Coupled End-to-End Transfer Learning with Generalized Fisher InformationVineet Shrivastava, Nidhi Malhotra, Chhaya Sharma … Isha GuptaCVPR · Institute of Management Technology · Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences
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    Swin-NSPT: Null-Space Prompt Tuning for Continual Learning in Swin TransformersYunjie Han, Hui Li, Zhengmin Jiang … Jianxing LiuIEEE 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data,… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +5
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    The Need for More Nuanced Metrics of Catastrophic ForgettingNiklas Melton, Sasha A. Petrenko, Leonardo Enzo Brito da Silva, Donald C. WunschInternational Conference on Soft Computing & Mach… · Missouri University of Science and Technology · Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte · +1
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    REAL: Representation Enhanced Analytic Learning for Exemplar-free Class-incremental LearningRun He, Di Fang, Yizhu Chen … Huiping ZhuangKnowledge-Based Systems · South China University of Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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    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
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    Learning diverse and adaptive representations for continual learningMingyan Liu, Fei YeNeurocomputing · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · University Town of Shenzhen · +2
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    Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with Dynamic Gradient GuidanceLi, Songze, Gao, Mingyu, Su, Tonghua … Wang, ZhongjieCVPR
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    Continual learning with a predictive coding based classifierSenhui Qiu, Saugat Bhattacharyya, Damien Coyle, Shirin DoraApplied Soft Computing · University of Ulster · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · +2
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    Parameter Importance-Driven Continual Learning for Foundation ModelsWang, Lingxiang, Zhang, Hainan, Zheng, ZhimingarXiv
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    CWPS: Efficient Channel-Wise Parameter Sharing for Knowledge TransferMingxuan Cui, Tao Wu, Xuewei Li … Xi LiTIP · Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · +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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