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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
  2. 2026
    SRANK: Towards Semantic-Aware Ranking-Based Evaluation for Continual Learning of Vision-Language ModelsSuvam Dey, Debarshi Brahma, Soma BiswasICIP · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
  3. 2026
    Task-Adaptive Sparse Update for Efficient Continual LearningTakuma Ishibashi, Hikari Otsuka, Junnosuke Suzuki … Masato MotomuraICIP · Institute of Science Tokyo
  4. 2025
    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
  5. 2025
    Online Continual Learning of Diffusion Models: Multi-Mode Adaptive Generative DistillationRui Yang, Matthieu Grard, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming ChenICIP · Lyon 1 Université · École Centrale de Lyon · +4
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  6. 2025
  7. 2025
  8. 2024
    Incremental Learning Model Based on Ensemble LearningTong Zhang, Weiqiang WuICIP · Guilin University of Electronic Technology
  9. 2024
    Temporal Transformer Encoder for Video Class Incremental LearningNattapong Kurpukdee, Adrian G. BorşICIP · University of York
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  10. 2024
    Adversarially Robust Continual Learning with Anti-Forgetting LossKoki Mukai, Soichiro Kumano, Nicolas Michel … Toshihiko YamasakiICIP · The University of Tokyo
  11. 2024
    Imbalanced Data Robust Online Continual Learning Based on Evolving Class Aware Memory Selection and Built-In Contrastive Representation LearningRui Yang, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Matthieu Grard, Liming ChenICIP · Lyon 1 Université · École Centrale de Lyon · +3
  12. 2024
    Video Class-Incremental Learning With Clip Based TransformerShuyun Lu, Jian Jiao, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiICIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  13. 2024
    Conditional Past Experience Generation for Dark Continual LearningCheng Feng, Chaoliang Zhong, Jie Wang … Yasuto YokotaICIP · Fujitsu (Japan) · Fujitsu (China)
  14. 2023
    Data Poisoning Attack Aiming the Vulnerability of Continual LearningGyojin Han, Jaehyun Choi, Hyeong Gwon Hong, Junmo KimICIP · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · International Graduate School of English
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  15. 2023
    A Baseline on Continual Learning Methods for Video Action RecognitionGiulia Castagnolo, Concetto Spampinato, Francesco Rundo … Simone PalazzoICIP · University of Catania · STMicroelectronics (Italy)
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  16. 2023
    COCO-TEACH: A Contrastive Co-Teaching Network For Incremental 3D Object DetectionZhongyao Cheng, Cen Chen, Ziyuan Zhao … Xulei YangICIP · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · Institute for Infocomm Research
  17. 2023
    Parallel Gradient Blend for Class Incremental LearningYunlong Zhao, Xiaoheng Deng, Xinjun Pei … Deng LiICIP · Central South University
  18. 2022
    Exemplar-Free Online Continual LearningJiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuICIP · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  19. 2022
    Learning an Evolved Mixture Model for Task-Free Continual LearningFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşICIP · University of York
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  20. 2022
    Contrastive Learning for Online Semi-Supervised General Continual LearningNicolas Michel, Romain Negrel, Giovanni Chierchia, Jean‐François BercherICIP · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Laboratoire d'Informatique Gaspard-Monge · +1
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  21. 2022
    Continual Learning in Vision TransformerMana Takeda, ‪Keiji Yanai‬ICIP · University of Electro-Communications
  22. 2022
    D-CBRS: Accounting for Intra-Class Diversity in Continual LearningYasin Fındık, Farhad Pourkamali‐AnarakiICIP · University of Massachusetts Lowell · University of Massachusetts Amherst
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  23. 2022
    Unsupervised Generative Variational Continual LearningLiu Guimeng, Yang Guo, Cheryl Wong Sze Yin … Savitha RamasamyICIP · Nanyang Technological University · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +2
  24. 2021
    Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYawen Cui, Wuti Xiong, Mohammad Tavakolian, Li LiuICIP · University of Oulu · National University of Defense Technology
  25. 2021
    Class Incremental Learning for Video Action ClassificationJiawei Ma, Xiaoyu Tao, Jianxing Ma … Yihong GongICIP · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  26. 2021
    Task-Agnostic Continual Learning Using Base-Child ClassifiersPranshu Ranjan Singh, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Qiao ZhongZheng … ArulMurugan AmbikapathiICIP · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · Institute for Infocomm Research · +1
  27. 2020
    Lifelong learning of interpretable image representationsFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşICIP · University of York
  28. 2020
    Deep Inhomogeneous Regularization For Transfer LearningWen Wang, Wei Zhai, Yang CaoICIP · University of Science and Technology of China
  29. 2020
    Class Incremental Learning With Task-SelectionEun Sung Kim, Jung Uk Kim, Sangmin Lee … Yong Man RoICIP · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Korea Electric Power Corporation (South Korea)
  30. 2019
    Collaborative Method for Incremental Learning on Classification and GenerationByungju Kim, Jae-Young Lee, Kyungsu Kim … Junmo KimICIP · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Samsung (United States)
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  31. 2019
    Discriminative Features for Incremental Learning ClassifierTin Lay Nwe, Balaji Nataraj, Shudong Xie … Dong ShengICIP · Institute for Infocomm Research · National University of Singapore
  32. 1999
    Incremental learning for Bayesian classification of imagesAditya Vailaya, Anil K. JainICIP · Michigan State University
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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