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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
    MCo2L: A unified framework for multimodal contrastive continual learning in audio-visual question answeringKunning Wu, Xinde Li, Xinde Li … Jin DengNeurocomputing · Southeast University · Northeastern University
  2. 2026
    Multi-Faceted Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding for Semantic-Aware Link PredictionJing Qi, Yuxiang Wang, Zhiyuan Yu … Tianxing WuSIGIR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xidian University · +1
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  3. 2026
    A negative-anchored self-relabeling strategy for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuNeurocomputing · Southeast University · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · +1
  4. 2026
    Negative-weighted knowledge distillation regularized graph convolutional network for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuPattern Recognition · Southeast University · Institute of Automation · +1
  5. 2025
    Online Continual Learning via Spiking Neural Networks with Sleep Enhanced Latent ReplayErliang Lin, Wenbin Luo, Wu Jia … Wenying XuInternational Conference on Intelligent Control and Infor… · Southeast University
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  6. 2026
    AVQACL++: Toward a Robust Framework and Benchmark for Audio-Visual Question Answering Continual LearningKunning Wu, Xinde Li, X. Z. Li … Zhiwei LvIEEE TCSVT · Southeast University
  7. 2026
    PASs-MoE: Mitigating Misaligned Co-drift among Router and Experts via Pathway Activation Subspaces for Continual LearningZhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma … Jinqiao WangACL · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  8. 2025
    AVQACL: A Novel Benchmark for Audio-Visual Question Answering Continual LearningKunning Wu, Xinde Li, Xinling Li … Guoliang WuCVPR · Southeast University
  9. 2025
    Prompt-Enhanced: Leveraging language representation for prompt continual learning.Wei Li, D. M. Li, Shitong Shao … Zhen LeiNeural Networks · Southeast University · Duke Kunshan University · +2
  10. 2025
    DuPt: Rehearsal-based continual learning with dual promptsShengqin Jiang, Daolong Zhang, Fengna Cheng … Qingshan LiuNeural Networks · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Nanjing Forestry University · +2
  11. 2025
    Class activation map replay and minimum entropy sampling-based multilabel class-incremental learningYifan Zhou, Kaile Du, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuJournal of Image and Graphics · Southeast University
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  12. 2024
    Calibrating Prompt from History for Continual Vision-Language Retrieval and GroundingTao Jin, W. B. Yan, Ye Wang … Zhou ZhaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Zhejiang University · Southeast University
  13. 2024
    Fast and Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding via Incremental LoRAXudong Yan, Songhe Feng, Yang Zhang … Haojun FeiIJCAI · Beijing Jiaotong University · Qilu University of Technology · +3
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  14. 2024
    Towards Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding via Incremental DistillationJiajun Liu, Wenjun Ke, Peng Wang … Yanhe LiuAAAI · Southeast University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  15. 2024
    Unify Named Entity Recognition Scenarios via Contrastive Real-Time Updating PrototypeYanhe Liu, Peng Wang, Wenjun Ke … Ziyu ShangAAAI · Southeast University · Nanjing University of Finance and Economics
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  16. 2024
    Autonomous Generative Feature Replay for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningYinjie Zhang, Ming Shao, Wenlong Shi … Siyu XiaICASSP · University of Massachusetts Dartmouth · Southeast University
  17. 2022
    Multi-Label Continual Learning Using Augmented Graph Convolutional NetworkKaile Du, Fan Lyu, Linyan Li … Hanjing ChengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Southeast University · +2
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  18. 2023
    Online Noisy Continual Relation LearningGuozheng Li, Peng Wang, Qiqing Luo … Wenjun KeAAAI · Southeast University
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  19. 2022
    Unified Question Generation with Continual Lifelong LearningWei Yuan, Hongzhi Yin, Tieke He … Lizhen CuiACM Web Conference 2022 · The University of Queensland · Nanjing University · +2
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  20. 2023
    Cost-Effective Incremental Deep Model: Matching Model Capacity With the Least SamplingYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Southeast University · +2
  21. 2021
    Curriculum-Meta Learning for Order-Robust Continual Relation ExtractionTongtong Wu, Xuekai Li, Yuan-Fang Li … Guoqiang XuAAAI · Southeast University · Monash University · +1
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  22. 2018
    Imbalanced Augmented Class Learning with Unlabeled Data by Label Confidence PropagationSiyu Ding, Xuying Liu, Min-Ling ZhangICDM · Southeast University
  23. 2018
    A Broad Neural Network Structure for Class Incremental LearningWenzhang Liu, Haiqin Yang, Yuewen Sun, Changyin SunSpringer LNCS · Southeast University · Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
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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