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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
    EKPC: Elastic Knowledge Preservation and Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningHuaijie Wang, De Cheng, Lingfeng He … Xinbo GaoInternational Journal of Computer Vision · Xidian University · Northwestern Polytechnical University
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  2. 2026
    Learning task-shared and specific knowledge via mixture-of-experts in generative model for continual learningWeinan Zhao, Yanling Ji, Yan Li … Dingwen ZhangPattern Recognition · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University · +1
  3. 2026
    Better Matching, Less Forgetting: A Quality-Guided Matcher for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Peng WangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Medrobotics (United States)
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  5. 2026
    Learning Prompt Adapters for Forgetting-Free Continual Image Super-ResolutionChaowei Fang, Bolin Fu, De Cheng … Guanbin LiTIP · Xidian University · Sun Yat-sen University
  6. 2026
    Adaptive Quantization for Stable Knowledge Acquisition in Quantization-Aware Continual LearningDe Cheng, Kun Gu, Lingfeng He … Xinbo GaoIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Huawei Technologies (China)
  7. 2026
    Continual Low-Rank Adaptation Via Cumulative Unified Optimization.Yue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  8. 2026
    Overcoming Dual Incremental Challenges in Continual Person Search via Adapter and PrototypeXi Yang, Hexun Zhou, De Cheng, Nannan WangTIP · Xidian University
  9. 2025
    Multi-Level Collaborative Distillation Meets Global Workspace Model: A Unified Framework for OCILShibin Su, Guoqiang Liang, De Cheng … Lingyan RanTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  10. 2025
    VPT-NSP2++: Importance-Aware Visual Prompt Tuning in Null Space for Continual LearningShizhou Zhang, Yue Lu, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  11. 2025
    Amplitude-aware Domain Style Replay for Lifelong Person Re-identificationLong Chen, De Cheng, Shizhou Zhang … Yanning ZhangACM MM
  12. 2025
    Boosting Multi-Modal Alignment: Geometric Feature Separation for Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Chuan Qin, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  13. 2025
    Gradient Decomposition and Alignment for Incremental Object DetectionWenlong Luo, Xicheng Zhang, De Cheng … Y ZhangICCV · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  17. 2025
    Training Consistent Mixture-of-Experts-Based Prompt Generator for Continual LearningYue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  18. 2025
    Achieving Plasticity-Stability Trade-Off in Continual Learning Through Adaptive Orthogonal ProjectionDe Cheng, Yusong Hu, Nannan Wang … Xinbo GaoIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications · +2
  19. 2025
    Demystifying Catastrophic Forgetting in Two-Stage Incremental Object DetectorQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangICML
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  20. 2025
    Enhancing Feature Learning With Hard Samples in Mutual Learning for Online Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Shibin Su, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  22. 2024
    Efficient Statistical Sampling Adaptation for Exemplar-Free Class Incremental LearningDe Cheng, Yuxin Zhao, Nannan Wang … Xinbo GaoIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +1
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  24. 2024
    Visual Prompt Tuning in Null Space for Continual LearningYue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangNeurIPS
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  25. 2024
    Continual All-in-One Adverse Weather Removal With Knowledge Replay on a Unified Network StructureDe Cheng, Yanling Ji, Dong Gong … Dingwen ZhangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  26. 2024
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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