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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
    Dual-modality adaptation in vision-language models for continual learningJiahao Zeng, Wentao Zhang, Kanghao Chen … Ruixuan WangNeural Networks · Sun Yat-sen University · GCI Science & Technology (China) · +1
  2. 2025
    Slowly expanding neural network for class incremental learningZhengjin Xu, Xuyang Li, Xiaobin Chang … Ruixuan WangPattern Recognition · Sun Yat-sen University · Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province · +2
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  4. 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
  5. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Task-Specific Batch Normalization and Out-of-Distribution DetectionZhou, Zhiping, Xuchen Xie, Yiqiao Qiu … Ruixuan WangNeurocomputing
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  6. 2024
    Continual Learning of Image Classes With Language Guidance From a Vision-Language ModelWentao Zhang, Yujun Huang, Weizhuo Zhang … Ruixuan WangIEEE TCSVT · Sun Yat-sen University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
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  8. 2024
    Rethinking Few-shot Class-incremental Learning: Learning from YourselfYuming Tang, Yi-Xing Peng, Jingke Meng, Wei‐Shi ZhengECCV
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  9. 2024
    Continual Action Assessment via Task-Consistent Score-Discriminative Feature Distribution ModelingYuan-Ming Li, Ling-An Zeng, Jingke Meng, Wei‐Shi ZhengIEEE TCSVT · Sun Yat-sen University
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  10. 2023
    Adaptively Integrated Knowledge Distillation and Prediction Uncertainty for Continual LearningKanghao Chen, Sijia Lin, Jianguo Zhang … Ruixuan WangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Sun Yat-sen University · Southern University of Science and Technology
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  11. 2023
    When Prompt-based Incremental Learning Does Not Meet Strong PretrainingYuming Tang, Yi-Xing Peng, Wei‐Shi ZhengICCV · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
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  12. 2023
    Continual learning with Bayesian model based on a fixed pre-trained feature extractorYang Yang, Zhiying Cui, Junjie Xu … Ruixuan WangVisual Intelligence · Sun Yat-sen University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
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  13. 2023
    SATS: Self-Attention Transfer for Continual Semantic SegmentationYiqiao Qiu, Yixing Shen, Zhuohao Sun … Ruixuan WangPattern Recognition · Sun Yat-sen University · Wuhan University · +2
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  14. 2022
    Lifelong Person Re-identification by Pseudo Task Knowledge PreservationWenhang Ge, Junlong Du, Ancong Wu … Wei‐Shi ZhengAAAI · Sun Yat-sen University · Tencent (China)
  15. 2022
    Learning to Imagine: Diversify Memory for Incremental Learning using Unlabeled DataYu-Ming Tang, Yi-Xing Peng, Wei‐Shi ZhengCVPR · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
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  16. 2022
    Discriminative Distillation to Reduce Class Confusion in Continual LearningChanghong Zhong, Zhiying Cui, Wei‐Shi Zheng … Ruixuan WangSpringer LNCS · Sun Yat-sen University · Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province
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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. 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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