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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
    Random Dense Knowledge Distillation for Continual LearningJie Chu, Pei Liu, Tong Su … Zenglin ShiACM Transactions · Hefei University of Technology · Zhengzhou University
  2. 2025
    Class-aware prototype augmentation and decoupled feature distillation for class-incremental learningChengdong Wang, Yangjun Ou, Xianfang Tang … Rui YanPattern Recognition · Hefei University of Technology · Wuhan Textile University · +2
  3. 2025
    SMoLoRa: Exploring and Defying Dual Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Visual Instruction TuningZiqi Wang, C. Che, Qi Wang … Meng WangICCV · Hefei University of Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
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  4. 2025
    Continual Adaptation: Environment-Conditional Parameter Generation for Object Detection in Dynamic ScenariosLi Deng, Aming Wu, Yang Li … Yahong HanICCV · Tianjin University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  5. 2025
    Controllable Relation Disentanglement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYuan Zhou, Richang Hong, Yanrong Guo … Hanwang ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Nanyang Technological University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  6. 2025
    Analyzing and Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Parameter Efficient TuningX.R. Li, Weijieying Ren, Wei Qin … Richang HongICASSP · Pennsylvania State University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  7. 2024
    Progressive Adapting and Pruning: Domain-Incremental Learning for Saliency PredictionKaihui Yang, Junwei Han, Guangyu Guo … Dingwen ZhangACM Transactions · Nanchang University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +4
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  8. 2023
    Learning to complement: Relation complementation network for few-shot class-incremental learningYe Wang, Yaxiong Wang, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming QianKnowledge-Based Systems · Hefei University of Technology · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +1
  9. 2023
    Dynamic Memory-Based Continual Learning with Generating and ScreeningSiying Tao, Jinyang Huang, Xiang Zhang … Yu GuSpringer LNCS · Hefei University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +1
  10. 2022
    Continual Referring Expression Comprehension via Dual Modular MemorizationHeng Tao Shen, Cheng Chen, Peng Wang … Jingkuan SongTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  11. 2021
    Unsupervised Lifelong Learning with CurriculaYi He, Sheng Chen, Baijun Wu … Xindong WuWWW · University of Louisiana at Lafayette · Hefei University of Technology
  12. 2020
    Incremental learning based multi-domain adaptation for object detectionXing Wei, Shaofan Liu, Yaoci Xiang … Yang LuKnowledge-Based Systems · Hefei University of Technology
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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