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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
    AdaEvol: Dynamic Adapter Merging for Effective Continual Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Large Language ModelsR X Liu, Min Yu, Jianguo Jiang … Ming LiuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  2. 2026
    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  3. 2025
    CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKexin Bao, Daichi Zhang, Hansong Zhang … Shiming GeIJCAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +1
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  4. 2025
    PKI: Prior knowledge-infused neural network for few-shot class-incremental learningKexin Bao, Fanzhao Lin, Zichen Wang … Shiming GeNeural Networks · Institute of Information Engineering · NARI Group (China) · +2
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  5. 2025
    MoM: Continual Generative Retrieval via Mixture of MemoriesYihan Guo, Yilong Chen, Jiawei Sheng, Tingwen LiuInternational Conference on Information Science, Electric… · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  6. 2025
    Specifying What You Know or Not for Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  7. 2025
    DCA: Dividing and Conquering Amnesia in Incremental Object DetectionAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  8. 2024
    DB-FSCIL: Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning Using Dual BridgesKexin Bao, Fanzhao Lin, Ruyue Liu, Shiming GeSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  9. 2024
    FTF-ER: Feature-Topology Fusion-Based Experience Replay Method for Continual Graph LearningJinhui Pang, Changqing Lin, Xiaoshuai Hao … Taisheng HuangACM MM · Beijing Institute of Technology · Samsung (China) · +2
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  10. 2024
    Towards Personalized Federated Learning via Comprehensive Knowledge DistillationPengju Wang, Bochao Liu, Weijia Guo … Shiming GeIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering
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  11. 2024
    Fusion of Current and Historical Knowledge for Personalized Federated LearningPengju Wang, Bochao Liu, Weijia Guo … Shiming GeIJCNN · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  12. 2024
    From Data to Optimization: Data-Free Deep Incremental Hashing With Data Disambiguation and Adaptive ProxiesQinghang Su, Dayan Wu, Chenming Wu … Weiping WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  13. 2023
    Pseudo Object Replay and Mining for Incremental Object DetectionDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiaopeng Hong … Weipinng WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  14. 2023
    Handling Label Uncertainty for Camera Incremental Person Re-IdentificationZexian Yang, Dayan Wu, Wanqian Zhang … Weipinng WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  15. 2023
    One-Shot Replay: Boosting Incremental Object Detection via Retrospecting One ObjectDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiaopeng Hong … Weiping WangAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  16. 2022
    Multi-View Correlation Distillation for Incremental Object DetectionDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Aoting Zhang … Qixiang YePattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +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. 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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