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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
    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 · Nanjing University
  2. 2025
    BOFA: Bridge-Layer Orthogonal Low-Rank Fusion for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental LearningLan Li, Tao Hu, Da-Wei Zhou … De-Chuan ZhanAAAI · Nanjing University
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  4. 2025
    Task-Agnostic Guided Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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  5. 2023
    Learning Without Forgetting for Vision-Language ModelsDa-Wei Zhou, Yuanhan Zhang, Yan Wang … Ziwei LiuTPAMI · Nanjing University · Nanyang Technological University
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  6. 2023
    Revisiting Class-Incremental Learning with Pre-Trained Models: Generalizability and Adaptivity are All You NeedDa-Wei Zhou, Zi-Wen Cai, Han-Jia Ye … Ziwei LiuInternational Journal of Computer Vision · Nanjing University · Nanyang Technological University
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  7. 2023
    Class-Incremental Learning: A SurveyDa-Wei Zhou, Qiwei Wang, Zhihong Qi … Ziwei LiuTPAMI · Nanyang Technological University · Nanjing University
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  8. 2024
    Expandable Subspace Ensemble for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Hailong Sun, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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  9. 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 (ICME) · Nanjing University
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  10. 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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  11. 2022
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning by Sampling Multi-Phase TasksDa-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, Liang Ma … De-Chuan ZhanTPAMI · Nanjing University
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  12. 2022
    Forward Compatible Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Fuyun Wang, Han-Jia Ye … De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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  13. 2023
    Cost-Effective Incremental Deep Model: Matching Model Capacity With the Least SamplingYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Southeast University · +2
  14. 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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  15. 2021
    Learning to Classify With Incremental New ClassDa-Wei Zhou, Yang Yang, De-Chuan ZhanTNNLS · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  16. 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
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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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