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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
    Bayesian Low-Rank Factorization for Robust Model AdaptationE. Ugan, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Alexander H. WaibelICASSP
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    SONAR: Self-Distilled Continual Pre-training for Domain Adaptive Audio RepresentationYizhou Zhang, Yuan Gao, Wangjin Zhou … Tatsuya KawaharaICASSP
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    Towards Robust Visual Continual Learning with Multi-Prototype SupervisionXi-Wei Liu, Yu-Long Li, Yi-Chen Li … Imran RazzakICASSP
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    Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Speech Large Language ModelsEnzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Zhiyuan Tang, Yuhang JiaICASSP
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    Class-Incremental Learning for Sound Event Localization and DetectionRuchi Pandey, Manjunath Mulimani, Archontis Politis, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University
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    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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    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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    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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    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
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    Domain-Incremental Learning for Audio ClassificationManjunath Mulimani, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University
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    Personalized Federated Class-Incremental Learning through Critical Parameter TransferFeng Wu, Siwei Feng, Yuanlu Chen, Libang ZhaoICASSP · Soochow University
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    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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    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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    FedFLD: Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Forget-Less DistillationXiaoyang Yi, Jian Zhang, Jing Chen … Xing LiICASSP · Nankai University
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    Multi-Prototype Grouping for Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringLicheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao, Yixing Peng … Yongdong ZhangICASSP · University of Science and Technology of China
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    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
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    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
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    Advancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with Virtual Prototype Guidance PromptingXiang Qiu, Huanjia Zhu, Xiaocheng Fang … Hui LinICASSP · South China Normal University
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    Continuously Learning New Words in Automatic Speech RecognitionChristian Huber, Alexander WaibelICASSP · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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    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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    Few-shot Keyword-incremental Learning Using Compositional InformationIlseok Kim, Ju-Seok Seong, Joon‐Hyuk ChangICASSP · Hanyang University
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    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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    A New Model for Prototype-based Continual Learning in Hyperspherical SpaceYixin Ren, Yewei Xia, Ke Li … Shuigeng ZhouICASSP · Fudan University · Alibaba Group (China)
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    Adapt and Feature Translation for Class-Incremental Learning with Pre-Trained ModelsHongfeng Li, Geming Xia, Yuze Zhang … Jiawen WuICASSP · National University of Defense Technology
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    CapT: A Hierarchical Capsule Representation Learning Approach for Class Continual LearningAnkita Chatterjee, S. Patel, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Partha Pratim DasICASSP · Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur · Ashoka University
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    Defying Imbalanced Forgetting for Class Incremental LearningFeng Yu, Linqiang Deng, Huizi Yan … Weiqi ZhangICASSP · Shanxi Agricultural University
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    Efficient Prototypical Classifier for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Jingyang Qiao, Yuan Xie … Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
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    Fresh-CL: Feature Realignment through Experts on Hypersphere in Continual LearningZhongyi Zhou, Yaxin Peng, Pengxing Yi … Chaomin ShenICASSP · East China Normal University · Shanghai University
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    Less Over More: Interference Sample Gradient Purification For Parallel Continual LearningTianbo Lu, Jiayao Tan, Linyan Li, Fuyuan HuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Suzhou Institute of Trade & Commerce
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    Prototype Alignment with LoRA Fusion for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
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    Relaxing Distillation Constraints for Improved New Class Learning in Continual Semantic SegmentationZheng Ti, Xuze Hao, Renhai ChenICASSP · Tianjin University · Fudan University
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    A2GP-SF: Enhancing Few-shot Class Incremental Learning via Attribute Generative Prompting and Adaptive Sharpness FlatteningZhiming Chen, De‐Shen Wang, Sisi Fu … Bingzhi ChenICASSP · South China Normal University
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    Enhancing Data-Free Class-Incremental Learning via Image-Centric Dual DistillationFeifei Fu, Zhiwu LuICASSP · Renmin University of China
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    kNN-CL: Enhancing Continual Learning with Nearest Neighbor RetrievalEnzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Hao Chen … Xin ZhouICASSP · Nankai University · Intel (United States) · +1
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    Multi-Layer Knowledge Distillation for Continual Semantic SegmentationYan Wang, Pengju Xu, Bo Wang, Haiying ZhaoICASSP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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    Online Contrastive Continual Learning with Hard Negative SamplesGuanglu Wang, Xinyue Liu, Wentao Yang … Xianchao ZhangICASSP · Dalian University of Technology
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    Towards Differential Optimization: Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental Learning with Slow Learners and Fast AdaptersYinghong Chen, Huanjia Zhu, Jiali Cai … Bingzhi ChenICASSP · South China Normal University
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    ValSub: Subsampling Validation Data to Mitigate Forgetting during ASR PersonalizationHaaris Mehmood, Karthikeyan Saravanan, Pablo Peso Parada … Seokyeong JungICASSP · Samsung (United Kingdom) · Samsung (South Korea)
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    ViCo: A Multitask Video-enhanced and Cognition-preserving Modality Alignment Training FrameworkZhiyi Yu, Jin Chen, Jiayu Shen … Yanmei KangICASSP · Telenor (Norway) · China Central Television · +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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