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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
    Sample-Aware Knowledge Association and Enhancement for Open-Vocabulary Continual LearningZhilin Zhu, Zhiheng Ma, Yabin Wang … Xiaopeng HongInternational Journal of Computer Vision · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
  2. 2026
    Federated Class Incremental Learning Method With High Accuracy and Extremely Low Communication Cost Based on Broad Learning SystemJie Du, Wenbing Chen, Peng Liu … C L Philip ChenIEEE Transactions · Shenzhen University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
  3. 2026
    Continual Test-Time Training on Graphs via Adaptive Prompts IntegrationQianyi Cai, Ziyue Qiao, Rui Cai … Hui XiongTPAMI · Great Bay University · University of California, Davis · +2
  4. 2026
    FedTA++: A Temporal-Aware Framework for Mitigating Spatial-Temporal Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Continual LearningSaeed Iqbal, Imran Arshad Choudhry, Muhammad Attique Khan, Amin UllahInternational Conference on Data Science, Machine Learnin… · Shenzhen University · University of Central Punjab · +2
  5. 2026
    FedCapD: Federated class-incremental learning via capsule distillation and diffusion replaySaeed Iqbal, Muhammad Abdullah Khan, Ghulam Mustafa … Amir HussainNeurocomputing · Shenzhen University · University of Central Punjab · +5
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  6. 2026
    Incremental Vision–Language Object Detection via Sparse Frequency TransformXiang Song, Ziye Yang, Yuhang He … Yihong GongTIP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +2
  7. 2025
    Learn by Reasoning: Analogical Weight Generation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJizhou Han, Chenhao Ding, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Shenzhen University · +2
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  8. 2025
    Swin-NSPT: Null-Space Prompt Tuning for Continual Learning in Swin TransformersYunjie Han, Hui Li, Zhengmin Jiang … Jianxing LiuIEEE 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data,… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +5
  9. 2025
    Dual-Attention based prompt generation and catalyzing for instance-wise continual learningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangPattern Recognition · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +5
  10. 2025
    PET-GPRA: Rethinking PET with Gradient-Aware Prompting and Router-Free Adapters for Few-shot Class-Incremental LearningYishu Liu, Zhiming Chen, D. Wang … Guangming LuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Harbin Institute of Technology · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  11. 2025
    A Continual Learning Method for Referring Image Segmentation Based on Fusion Pattern-Aware DistillationWeixiang Liu, Qian Zhang, Linjie Hong … Zongze WuChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Shenzhen University
  12. 2026
    CIBLS-PLS: A Class-Incremental Broad Learning System With Pseudolabel-Guided Stacked StructureXin Liu, Zhaoyin Shi, Shuanghao Zhang … C. L. Philip ChenIEEE TAI · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +4
  13. 2025
    Diffuse&Refine: Intrinsic Knowledge Generation and Aggregation for Incremental Object DetectionJianzhou Wang, Yirui Wu, Lixin Yuan … Wenhai WangIJCAI · Hohai University · Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China · +5
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  14. 2025
    An open-world object detection model based on multiscale feature orthogonalizationWeilin Xiao, Ming Xu, Yonggui Lin … Qinhao WuInternational Symposium on Artificial Intelligence Innova… · Shenzhen University
  15. 2025
    MoCFL: Mobile Cluster Federated Learning Framework for Highly Dynamic NetworkKai Fang, Jiangtao Deng, Chengzu Dong … Wei WangWWW · Zhejiang A & F University · Shenzhen University · +1
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  16. 2025
    Deconfound Semantic Shift and Incompleteness in Incremental Few-shot Semantic SegmentationYirui Wu, Yuhang Xia, Hao Li … Shaohua WanAAAI · Hohai University · Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China · +3
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  17. 2025
    Joint Memory Optimization for Continual LearningZhiheng Ma, Yaohui Ma, Xiaopeng Hong … Shizhou ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +2
  18. 2024
    Prompt Customization for Continual LearningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangIEEE TAI · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +6
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  19. 2025
    Source-Free Elastic Model Adaptation for Vision-and-Language NavigationMingkui Tan, Peihao Chen, Hongyan Zhi … Runhao ZengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · South China University of Technology · Tencent (China) · +4
  20. 2024
    Potential Knowledge Extraction Network for Class-Incremental LearningXidong Xi, Guitao Cao, Wenming Cao … He RenNeurocomputing · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing · East China Normal University · +1
  21. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Forward MemoryMingjun Dai, Mingzhu Hu, Yonghao Kong, Yadi GuIEEE/ACIS 24th International Conference on Computer and I… · Shenzhen University
  22. 2024
    Domain-incremental learning without forgetting based on random vector functional link networksChengRan Liu, Yi Wang, Dong Li, Xizhao WangPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
  23. 2024
    MixER: Mixup-Based Experience Replay for Online Class-Incremental LearningWon-Seon Lim, Yu Zhou, Dae‐Won Kim, Jaesung LeeIEEE Access · Chung-Ang University · Shenzhen University
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  24. 2023
    Class incremental learning via dynamic regeneration with task-adaptive distillationHao Yang, Wei He, Zhenyu Shan … Xiong ChenComputer Communications · Fudan University · Shenzhen University
  25. 2023
    Exploring Data Geometry for Continual LearningZhi Gao, Chen Xu, Feng Li … Yuwei WuCVPR · Beijing Institute of Technology · Shenzhen University · +3
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  26. 2023
    A Fully Distributed Training for Class Incremental Learning in Multihead NetworksMingjun Dai, Yonghao Kong, Junpei Zhong … Hui WangIEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communica… · Shenzhen University · Ubiquitous Energy (United States) · +2
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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