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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
    CEM: A Data-Efficient Method for Large Language Models to Continue Evolving From MistakesHaokun Zhao, Jinyi Han, Jie Shi … Fei YuCIKM · Fudan University · East China Normal University · +1
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  2. 2025
    Towards Robust Continual Test-Time Adaptation via Neighbor FiltrationTaki Hasan Rafi, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Dong‐Kyu ChaeCIKM · Hanyang University · Liverpool John Moores University · +1
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  3. 2025
    DebiasedKGE: Towards Mitigating Spurious Forgetting in Continual Knowledge Graph EmbeddingJunlin Zhu, Bo Fu, Guiduo DuanCIKM · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  4. 2025
    Caption, Create, Continue: Continual Learning with Pre-trained Generative Vision-Language ModelsIndu Solomon, Aye Phyu Phyu Aung, Uttam Kumar, J. SenthilnathCIKM · International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +1
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  5. 2025
    Hyperbolic Prompt Learning for Incremental Event Detection with LLMsXiujin Zhang, Wenxin Jin, Haotian Hong … Li SunCIKM · North China Electric Power University · Anhui University of Science and Technology · +2
  6. 2025
    Contextual Attention Modulation: Towards Efficient Multi-Task Adaptation in Large Language ModelsDawei Pan, Zhaoyang Fu, Jingyuan Wang … Xiangyu ZhaoCIKM · City University of Hong Kong · Beihang University · +2
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  7. 2025
    Exploring the Tradeoff Between Diversity and Discrimination for Continuous Category DiscoveryRuobing Jiang, Yang Liu, Haobing Liu … Chunyang WangCIKM · Ocean University of China · East China Normal University
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  8. 2025
    Federated Continual RecommendationJaehyung Lim, Wonbin Kweon, Woojoo Kim … Hwanjo YuCIKM
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  9. 2024
    Learning from Novel Knowledge: Continual Few-shot Knowledge Graph CompletionZhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Qiannan Zhang … Shichao PeiCIKM · Shanghai University · Cornell University · +2
  10. 2024
    NC2D: Novel Class Discovery for Node ClassificationYue Hou, X. R. Chen, He Zhu … Ke XuCIKM · Beihang University · Communication University of China
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  11. 2024
    PIP: Prototypes-Injected Prompt for Federated Class Incremental LearningM. Anwar Ma’sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Savitha Ramasamy … Ryszard KowalczykCIKM · University of South Australia · Institute for Infocomm Research
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  12. 2024
    Information Retrieval Optimization for Non-Exemplar Class Incremental LearningShuai Guo, Yang Gu, Yuan Ma … Yiqiang ChenCIKM · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  14. 2023
    Continual Learning for Generative Retrieval over Dynamic CorporaJiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo … Xueqi ChengCIKM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Amsterdam University of the Arts · +1
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  15. 2023
    Task Relation Distillation and Prototypical Pseudo Label for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Hongliu Li, Wei Wei Cong … Xiuyi ChenCIKM · Baidu (China) · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +3
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  16. 2023
    Incremental Graph Classification by Class Prototype Construction and AugmentationYixin Ren, Li Ke, Dong Li … Shuigeng ZhouCIKM · Fudan University · Alibaba Group (China)
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  17. 2023
    L2R: Lifelong Learning for First-stage Retrieval with Backward-Compatible RepresentationsYinqiong Cai, Keping Bi, Yixing Fan … Xueqi ChengCIKM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  18. 2023
    Look At Me, No Replay! SurpriseNet: Anomaly Detection Inspired Class Incremental LearningAnton Lee, Yaqian Zhang, Heitor Murilo Gomes … Bernhard PfahringerCIKM · Victoria University of Wellington · University of Waikato
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  19. 2020
    Streaming Graph Neural Networks via Continual LearningJunshan Wang, Guojie Song, Yi Wu, Liang WangCIKM · Peking University · Alibaba Group (China)
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  20. 2020
    GraphSAIL: Graph Structure Aware Incremental Learning for Recommender SystemsYishi Xu, Yingxue Zhang, Wei Guo … Mark CoatesCIKM · Université de Montréal · Huawei Technologies (Canada) · +2
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  21. 2020
    Continual Domain Adaptation for Machine Reading ComprehensionLixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang … Xueqi ChengCIKM · Computer Network Information Center · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  22. 2019
    Automatic Construction of Multi-layer Perceptron Network from Streaming ExamplesMahardhika Pratama, Choiru Za’in, Andri Ashfahani … Weiping DingCIKM · Nanyang Technological University · La Trobe University · +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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