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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
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Trento · +5
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  2. 2025
    Bring Your Dreams to Life: Continual Text-to-Video CustomizationJiahua Dong, Xudong Wang, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanAAAI
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  3. 2025
    Hierarchical Visual Prompt Learning for Continual Video Instance SegmentationJiahua Dong, Hui Yin, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanICCV · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Hunan University · +3
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  4. 2024
    Continual Learning and Unknown Object Discovery in 3D Scenes via Self-distillationMohamed El Amine Boudjoghra, Jean Lahoud, Hisham Cholakkal … Fahad Shahbaz KhanSpringer LNCS · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Aalto University · +2
  5. 2024
    How to Continually Adapt Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Flexible Customization?Jiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanNeurIPS
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  6. 2024
    Semi-supervised Open-World Object DetectionSahal Shaji Mullappilly, Abhishek Singh Gehlot, Rao Muhammad Anwer … Hisham CholakkalAAAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Linköping University
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  7. 2023
    Self-regulating Prompts: Foundational Model Adaptation without ForgettingMuhammad Uzair Khattak, Syed Talal Wasim, Muzammal Naseer … Fahad Shahbaz KhanICCV
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  8. 2022
    D3Former: Debiased Dual Distilled Transformer for Incremental LearningAbdelrahman Mohamed, Rushali Grandhe, K. J. Joseph … Fahad Shahbaz KhanCVPR · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Adobe Systems (United States) · +1
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  9. 2022
    CLIP model is an Efficient Continual LearnerVishal Thengane, Salman Khan, Munawar Hayat, Fahad Shahbaz KhanarXiv
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  10. 2022
    Energy-based Latent Aligner for Incremental LearningK J Joseph, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan … Vineeth N BalasubramanianCVPR · Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad · Zayed University · +3
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  11. 2020
    Incremental Object Detection via Meta-LearningK J Joseph, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Salman Khan … Vineeth N BalasubramanianTPAMI · Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  12. 2020
    iTAML: An Incremental Task-Agnostic Meta-learning ApproachJathushan Rajasegaran, Salman Khan, Munawar Hayat … Mubarak ShahCVPR · Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence · Linköping University · +1
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  13. 2019
    An Adaptive Random Path Selection Approach for Incremental Learning.Jathushan Rajasegaran, Munawar Hayat, Salman Khan … Ming–Hsuan YangNeurIPS
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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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