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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Bi-Compatible Task-Agnostic Feature Augmentation for Expansion-Based Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Zijun Shen, Da-Wei Zhou … De-Chuan ZhanInternational Journal of Computer Vision
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    Stable Routing for Mixture-of-Experts in Class-Incremental LearningZirui Guo, Quan Cheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Lijun ZhangarXiv
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  10. 2025
    External Knowledge Injection for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Kai Li, Jingyi Ning … De-Chuan ZhanICCV
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  11. 2025
    Task-Agnostic Guided Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan ZhanCVPR
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  12. 2024
    Dual Consolidation for Pre-Trained Model-Based Domain-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Zihao Cai, Han-Jia Ye … De-Chuan ZhanCVPR
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  13. 2024
    LW2G: Learning Whether to Grow for Prompt-based Continual LearningQian Feng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han Zhao … Hui QianarXiv
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  14. 2024
    Adaptive adapter routing for long-tailed class-incremental learningZhi-Hong Qi, Da-Wei Zhou, Yiran Yao … De-Chuan ZhanMachine-mediated learning
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  15. 2024
    Expandable Subspace Ensemble for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Hai-Long Sun, Han-Jia Ye, De-chuan ZhanCVPR
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  16. 2024
    Continual Learning with Pre-Trained Models: A SurveyDa-Wei Zhou, Hai-Long Sun, Jingyi Ning … De-chuan ZhanIJCAI
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  17. 2024
    Multi-layer Rehearsal Feature Augmentation for Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan ZhanICML
  18. 2023
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Training-Free Prototype CalibrationQiwen Wang, Da-Wei Zhou, Yi-Kai Zhang … Han-Jia YeNeurIPS
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  19. 2023
    PILOT: a pre-trained model-based continual learning toolboxHai-Long Sun, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De-chuan ZhanInformation Sciences
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  20. 2023
    Learning Without Forgetting for Vision-Language ModelsDa-Wei Zhou, Yuanhan Zhang, Jingyi Ning … Ziwei LiuTPAMI
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  21. 2021
    PyCIL: a Python toolbox for class-incremental learningDa-Wei Zhou, Fuyun Wang, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanInformation Sciences · Nanjing University
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  22. 2023
    Preserving Locality in Vision Transformers for Class Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De-chuan ZhanIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
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    Revisiting Class-Incremental Learning with Pre-Trained Models: Generalizability and Adaptivity are All You NeedDa-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De-chuan Zhan, Ziwei LiuInternational Journal of Computer Vision
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  25. 2023
    Class-Incremental Learning: A SurveyDa-Wei Zhou, Qiwen Wang, Zhiyuan Qi … Ziwei LiuTPAMI
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    Deep Class-Incremental Learning: A SurveyDa-Wei Zhou, Qiwen Wang, Zhi-Hong Qi … Ziwei LiuarXiv
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  28. 2022
    Forward Compatible Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Fuyun Wang, Han-Jia Ye … De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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  29. 2022
    A Model or 603 Exemplars: Towards Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Qiwei Wang, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanICLR
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  30. 2022
    FOSTER: Feature Boosting and Compression for Class-Incremental LearningFuyun Wang, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanECCV
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  31. 2022
    Deep Learning for Class-Incremental Learning: A surveyDa-Wei Zhou, Fu Lee Wang, Han-Jia Ye, De-chuan ZhanPreprint
  32. 2021
    Co-Transport for Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University
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  33. 2021
    Learning to Classify With Incremental New ClassDa-Wei Zhou, Yang Yang, De-Chuan ZhanTNNLS · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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  35. 2019
    Adaptive Deep Models for Incremental Learning: Considering Capacity Scalability and SustainabilityYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De‐Chuan Zhan … Yuan JiangACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discover… · Nanjing University · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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. 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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