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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
    Feature Dispersion Adaptation With Pre-Pooling Prototype for Continual Image ClassificationWuxuan Shi, Mang Ye, Wei Yu, Bo DuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Wuhan University
  2. 2025
    Rethinking Class-Incremental Learning from a Dynamic Imbalanced Learning PerspectiveLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yunlong Wang … Zhaofeng HeIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  3. 2025
    Distribution-aware Forgetting Compensation for Exemplar-Free Lifelong Person Re-identificationShiben Liu, Huijie Fan, Qiang Wang … Liang-Qiong QuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  4. 2025
    CMoA: Contrastive Mixture of Adapters for Generalized Few-Shot Continual LearningYawen Cui, Jian Zhao, Zitong Yu … Xuelong LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · China Telecom (China) · +6
  5. 2025
    Source-Free Elastic Model Adaptation for Vision-and-Language NavigationMingkui Tan, Peihao Chen, Hongyan Zhi … Runhao ZengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · South China University of Technology · Tencent (China) · +4
  6. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning for Image Classification With Out-of-Distribution Task IdentificationXusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming ChengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Nankai University
  7. 2025
    Visual Class Incremental Learning With Textual Priors Guidance Based on an Adapted Vision-Language ModelWentao Zhang, Tong Yu, Ruixuan Wang … Xiaobo YangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine · +1
  8. 2025
    Analogical Augmentation and Significance Analysis for Online Task-Free Continual LearningSonglin Dong, Yingjie Chen, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Nanyang Technological University
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    Plug-In Open-Set Cross-Modal HashingBowen Wang, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li … Jingjing LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Tongji University · University of Technology Sydney · +3
  10. 2025
    SVSRD: Spatial Visual and Statistical Relation Distillation for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationYuyang Chang, Yifan Jiao, Bing‐Kun BaoIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  11. 2025
    Distribution-Level Memory Recall for Continual Learning: Preserving Knowledge and Avoiding ConfusionShaoxu Cheng, Kanglei Geng, Chiyuan He … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  12. 2025
    Dual-Attention Transformers for Class-Incremental Learning: A Tale of Two MemoriesShaofan Wang, Weixing Wang, Yanfeng Sun … Baocai YinIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Beijing University of Technology · The University of Sydney
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    Self-Reflection Neural Network for Class-Incremental Object CountingShengqin Jiang, Linfei Li, Fengna Cheng … Qingshan LiuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Nanjing Forestry University · +2
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    WI3D: Weakly Incremental 3D Detection via Vision Foundation ModelsMingsheng Li, Sijin Chen, Shengji Tang … Tao ChenIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Fudan University · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +2
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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