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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. 2024
    Sparse Orthogonal Parameters Tuning for Continual LearningKun-Peng Ning, Hai-Jian Ke, Yuyang Liu … Yuan LiInternational Journal of Computer Vision · Peking University Shenzhen Hospital · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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  2. 2026
    Reasoning Portability: Guiding Continual Learning for MLLMs in the RLVR Era红秋 何, Yuyang Liu, Shuo Yang … Yonghong TianarXiv
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  3. 2026
    CSBoRA: A continual learning method for large language models with true orthogonality and reduced forgettingYuyang Liu, Lai-Man Po, Farrell Hung … Kwok-Wai CheungPattern Recognition · City University of Hong Kong · nLIGHT (United States) · +2
  4. 2026
    Online label aggregation with incomplete crowd responsesYuyang Liu, Haoyu Liu, Runze Wu … Changjie FanInformation Sciences · Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · NetEase (China) · +1
  5. 2025
    Continual Learning for VLMs: A Survey and Taxonomy Beyond ForgettingYuyang Liu, Qiuhe Hong, Linlan Huang … Yonghong TianarXiv
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  6. 2025PDF ↗
  7. 2024
    CASA: Class-Agnostic Shared Attributes in Vision-Language Models for Efficient Incremental Object DetectionMingyi Guo, Yuyang Liu, Zhiyuan Yan … Yonghong TianIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Peking University
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  8. 2024
    Is Parameter Collision Hindering Continual Learning in LLMs?Shuo Yang, Kun-Peng Ning, Yuyang Liu … Yuan LiCOLING
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  10. 2024
    Resurrecting Old Classes with New Data for Exemplar-Free Continual LearningDipam Goswami, Albin Soutif--Cormerais, Yuyang Liu … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  12. 2023
    Augmented Box Replay: Overcoming Foreground Shift for Incremental Object DetectionYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Dipam Goswami … Joost van de WeijerICCV · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  13. 2023
    FeCAM: Exploiting the Heterogeneity of Class Distributions in Exemplar-Free Continual LearningDipam Goswami, Yuyang Liu, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Joost van de WeijerNeurIPS
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  14. 2023
    Self-Paced Weight Consolidation for Continual LearningWei Wei Cong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Jiahua DongIEEE TCSVT · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  15. 2023
    CSSL-MHTR: Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Scalable Multi-script Handwritten Text RecognitionMarwa Dhiaf, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Kai Wang … Ahmed Cheikh RouhouarXiv
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  16. 2023
    Open-Ended Online Learning for Autonomous Visual PerceptionHaibin Yu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Jiahua DongTNNLS
  17. 2022
    Proper Reuse of Features Extractor for Real-time Continual LearningYu Li, Gan Sun, Yuyang Liu … Chuanzhi ZangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Shenyang University of Technology · +2
  18. 2022
    Class-Incremental Gesture Recognition Learning with Out-of-Distribution DetectionMingxue Li, Yang Cong, Yuyang Liu, Gan SunIROS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  19. 2023
    Lifelong Visual-Tactile Spectral Clustering for Robotic Object PerceptionYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  20. 2021
    What and How: Generalized Lifelong Spectral Clustering via Dual MemoryGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Haibin YuTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  21. 2021
    L3DOC: Lifelong 3D Object ClassificationYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Hongsen LiuTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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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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