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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
    Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural NetworksRiccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University · Politecnico di Milano
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  2. 2026
    Inverse-Hessian Regularization for Continual Learning in ASRSteven Vander Eeckt, Hugo Van hammeICASSP · KU Leuven
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  3. 2026
    AdaEvol: Dynamic Adapter Merging for Effective Continual Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Large Language ModelsR X Liu, Min Yu, Jianguo Jiang … Ming LiuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  4. 2026
  5. 2026
    Aligning Geometry Representation and Initialization in Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationZhi Lin, Yueliang Pan, Feng Ming, Kele XuICASSP · National University of Defense Technology
  6. 2026
    Alleviating Forgetting in Class-Incremental Learning Via Implicit Semantic AugmentationTao Yu, Yan Chen, Xinyu Liu … Liang DuICASSP · Shanxi University · Taiyuan University of Science and Technology · +2
  7. 2026
    CEAL: Cross-Expert Attention with Curated Peer Selection for Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Exemplar-Free Continual LearningSeongsu Kim, Dongheon Lee, Sangwoo Yun … Joonki PaikICASSP · Chung-Ang University
  8. 2026
    Continual Learning with Clip Text-Prototype and an Orthogonal Pre-Expanded Classification HeadTong Yu, Kanghao Chen, Jiantao Tan … Ruixuan WangICASSP · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangzhou University · +1
  9. 2026
    Cross Task Knowledge Transfer for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningShuai Chen, Leike An, Jiaxi Wang … Jibin WangICASSP · China Mobile (China) · Beijing Institute of Technology
  10. 2026
    Enhancing Personalized Federated Continual Learning with Client-Specific Semantic KnowledgeYongli Hu, Hongyu Chen, Huajie Jiang … Baocai YinICASSP · Beijing University of Technology · The University of Sydney
  11. 2026
    Fast-Slow LoRa: Achieving Efficient Continual Learning via Fast-Slow Learning and Redundancy PruningChenrui Xiong, Lin Zhang, Zhao KangICASSP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of Stuttgart
  12. 2026
    From Cold-Start to Stabilization: A Dual-Prototype Framework for Online Any-Shot Continual LearningChengyan Liu, Linglan Zhao, Juping Gu … Fan LyuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  13. 2026
    FS-LoRA: Fast and Slow Low-Rank Adaptation for Class Incremental LearningY Hou, Xuefei Tong, Kedian MuICASSP · Peking University
  14. 2026
    Guided Bayesian Consolidation for Class-Incremental Continual Learning through Variational Constraints and Noise PerturbationsZiyi Wang, Yangrui Fan, Peilun Lyu, Ben YeICASSP · University of Macau · Macau University of Science and Technology
  15. 2026
    LDEPrompt: Layer-importance guided Dual Expandable Prompt Pool for Pre-trained Model-based Class-Incremental LearningLinjie Li, Zhenyu Wu, Huiyu Xiao, Jie YangICASSP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  16. 2026
    Rehearsing High Confident Samples via Masked Optimal Transportation for Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Named Entity RecognitionZhiyuan Ma, Miaomiao Gu, Jialin Cao … Dan LiuICASSP · Machine Intelligence Research Institute
  17. 2026
    Revisiting Prototypes for Open-Domain Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsYadong Lu, Shitian Zhao, Boxiang Yun … Yue WangICASSP · East China Normal University
  18. 2026
    Sard: Similarity-Aligned Reminiscence and Distillation for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningSeongsu Kim, In-Soo Kim, Sangwoo Yun … Joonki PaikICASSP · Chung-Ang University
  19. 2026
    SCI-GR: Sequential Controllable Inpainting-Based Generative Replay For Class-Incremental Object DetectionNuohan Xue, Caixia Yan, Yi-Xiang Wang … Yudeng XinICASSP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · The University of Melbourne
  20. 2026
    Semantic and Temporal-Aware Distillation for Class-Incremental LearningDongyan Guo, Xusheng Wang, Yuanhao Zheng … Ying CuiICASSP · Zhejiang University of Technology
  21. 2026
    Tailored Text Integration and Semantic Differential Enhancement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXin Huang, Shilong Wang, Peihao Li … Zhimin YuanICASSP · Nanyang Normal University · North China Electric Power University
  22. 2026
    The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma Revisited: A Brain-Inspired Continual Learning Method with Representation-Function SeparationYuyang Han, Li Z, Zhiying Long, Xia WuICASSP · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
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  24. 2026
    FadeMem: Biologically-Inspired Forgetting for Efficient Agent MemoryLei Wei, Xiao Peng, Xu Dong … Bin WangICASSP
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  25. 2026
    FGGM: Fisher-Guided Gradient Masking for Continual LearningChao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang … Jieping YeICASSP
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  26. 2026
    Analytic Incremental Learning For Sound Source Localization With Imbalance RectificationZexia Fan, Yu Lim Chen, Qiquan Zhang … Xinyuan QianICASSP
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  28. 2025
    Bayesian Low-Rank Factorization for Robust Model AdaptationE. Ugan, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Alexander H. WaibelICASSP
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  30. 2025
    SONAR: Self-Distilled Continual Pre-training for Domain Adaptive Audio RepresentationYizhou Zhang, Yuan Gao, Wangjin Zhou … Tatsuya KawaharaICASSP
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  31. 2025
    Towards Robust Visual Continual Learning with Multi-Prototype SupervisionXi-Wei Liu, Yu-Long Li, Yi-Chen Li … Imran RazzakICASSP
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  32. 2025
    Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Speech Large Language ModelsEnzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Zhiyuan Tang, Yuhang JiaICASSP
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  33. 2025
    Class-Incremental Learning for Sound Event Localization and DetectionRuchi Pandey, Manjunath Mulimani, Archontis Politis, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University
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  34. 2025
    Analyzing and Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Parameter Efficient TuningX.R. Li, Weijieying Ren, Wei Qin … Richang HongICASSP · Pennsylvania State University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  35. 2025
    HDMoLE: Mixture of LoRA Experts with Hierarchical Routing and Dynamic Thresholds for Fine-Tuning LLM-based ASR ModelsBingshen Mu, Kun Wei, Qijie Shao … Lei XieICASSP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Tencent (China)
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  36. 2025
    Dynamic Object Queries for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionJichuan Zhang, Wei Li, Shuang Cheng … Shengjin WangICASSP · Tsinghua University · Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  37. 2025
    Continual Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Audio Deepfake DetectionXiaohuan Chen, Wenhuan Lu, Ruiteng Zhang … Jianguo WeiICASSP · Tianjin University · National Institute of Information and Communications Technology · +1
  38. 2025
    Domain-Incremental Learning for Audio ClassificationManjunath Mulimani, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University
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  39. 2025
    Personalized Federated Class-Incremental Learning through Critical Parameter TransferFeng Wu, Siwei Feng, Yuanlu Chen, Libang ZhaoICASSP · Soochow University
  40. 2025
    Freeze and Learn: Continual Learning with Selective Freezing for Speech Deepfake DetectionDavide Salvi, Viola Negroni, Luca Bondi … Stefano TubaroICASSP · Politecnico di Milano · Robert Bosch (United States)
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  41. 2025
    IOR: Inversed Objects Replay for Incremental Object DetectionZijia An, Boyu Diao, Libo Huang … Yongjun XuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology
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  42. 2025
    FedFLD: Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Forget-Less DistillationXiaoyang Yi, Jian Zhang, Jing Chen … Xing LiICASSP · Nankai University
  43. 2025
    Multi-Prototype Grouping for Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringLicheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao, Yixing Peng … Yongdong ZhangICASSP · University of Science and Technology of China
  44. 2025
    UIDAPLE: Unsupervised Incremental Domain Adaptation through Adaptive Prompt LearningSamrat Kumar Mukherjee, Tanuj Sur, Saurish Seksaria … Biplab BanerjeeICASSP · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · Chennai Mathematical Institute · +1
  45. 2025
    A Continual Learning Approach for Embodied Question Answering with Generative Adversarial Imitation LearningXin Zeng, Haonan Luo, Zihang Wang … Tianrui LiICASSP · Southwest Jiaotong University · Beihang University
  46. 2025
    Advancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with Virtual Prototype Guidance PromptingXiang Qiu, Huanjia Zhu, Xiaocheng Fang … Hui LinICASSP · South China Normal University
  47. 2025
    Continuously Learning New Words in Automatic Speech RecognitionChristian Huber, Alexander WaibelICASSP · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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  48. 2025
    Controllable Forgetting Mechanism for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKirill Paramonov, Mete Özay, Eunju Yang … Umberto MichieliICASSP · Samsung (United Kingdom) · Samsung (South Korea)
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  49. 2025
    Few-shot Keyword-incremental Learning Using Compositional InformationIlseok Kim, Ju-Seok Seong, Joon‐Hyuk ChangICASSP · Hanyang University
  50. 2025
    Leveraging Pre-Trained Models for Multimodal Class-Incremental Learning under Adaptive FusionYukun Chen, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Qingbo WuICASSP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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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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