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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
    TRACE: Discovering Task-Specific Parameter via Adaptation-Aware Probing for Continual Fine-TuningXiaosong Han, Ke Chen, Xindi Dai … Renchu GuanKDD · Jilin University · Jilin Province Science and Technology Department · +3
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  2. 2026
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Trento · +5
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  3. 2023
    Scalable and Efficient Continual Learning from Demonstration via Hypernetwork-generated Stable Dynamics ModelSayantan Auddy, Jakob Hollenstein, Matteo Saveriano … Justus PiaterIEEE TCDS · Technische Universität Berlin · Universität Innsbruck · +2
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  4. 2025
    Hierarchical Visual Prompt Learning for Continual Video Instance SegmentationJiahua Dong, Hui Yin, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanICCV · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Hunan University · +3
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  5. 2024
    One VLM to Keep it Learning: Generation and Balancing for Data-free Continual Visual Question AnsweringDeepayan Das, Davide Talon, Massimiliano Mancini … Elisa RicciWACV · University of Trento · Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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  6. 2024
    Improving Continual Learning of Acoustic Scene Classification via Mutual Information OptimizationMuqiao Yang, Umberto Cappellazzo, Xiang Li, Bhiksha RajICASSP · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Trento
  7. 2023
    Weighted Ensemble Models Are Strong Continual LearnersImad Eddine Marouf, Subhankar Roy, Enzo Tartaglione, Stéphane LathuilièreECCV · Télécom Paris · University of Trento
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  8. 2023
    On the Effectiveness of LayerNorm Tuning for Continual Learning in Vision TransformersThomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini, Karteek Alahari … Elisa RicciICCV · University of Trento · Institut polytechnique de Grenoble · +5
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  9. 2022
    A soft nearest-neighbor framework for continual semi-supervised learningZhiqi Kang, Enrico Fini, Moin Nabi … Karteek AlahariICCV · Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique · University of Trento · +2
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  10. 2022
    Continual Learning from Demonstration of Robotic SkillsSayantan Auddy, Jakob Hollenstein, Matteo Saveriano … Justus PiaterRobotics and Autonomous Systems · Universität Innsbruck · University of Trento
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  11. 2021
    Generalising via Meta-Examples for Continual Learning in the WildAlessia Bertugli, Stefano Vincenzi, Simone Calderara, Andrea PasseriniSpringer LNCS · University of Trento · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  12. 2022
    Incremental Online Learning Algorithms Comparison for Gesture and Visual Smart SensorsAlessandro Avi, Andrea Albanese, Davide BrunelliIJCNN · University of Trento
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  13. 2021
    Self-Supervised Models are Continual LearnersEnrico Fini, Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Xavier Alameda-Pineda … Julien MairalCVPR · University of Trento · Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique · +1
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  14. 2022
    Continual Attentive Fusion for Incremental Learning in Semantic SegmentationGuanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu … Elisa RicciIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Trento · Harbin Institute of Technology · +5
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  15. 2022
    Uncertainty-aware Contrastive Distillation for Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu … Elisa RicciTPAMI · Harbin Institute of Technology · University of Trento · +2
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  16. 2022
    Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Concept Bottleneck ModelsEmanuele Marconato, Gianpaolo Bontempo, Stefano Teso … Andrea PasseriniSpringer LNCS · University of Pisa · University of Trento · +1
  17. 2019
    Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question AnsweringClaudio Greco, Barbara Plank, Raquel Fernández, Raffaella BernardiSpringer LNCS · University of Trento · IT University of Copenhagen · +1
  18. 2020
    Few-Shot Unsupervised Continual Learning through Meta-ExamplesAlessia Bertugli, Stefano Vincenzi, Simone Calderara, Andrea PasseriniarXiv · University of Trento · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  19. 2020
    Boosting Deep Open World Recognition by ClusteringDario Fontanel, Fabio Cermelli, Massimiliano Mancini … Barbara CaputoRA-L · Politecnico di Torino · Italian Institute of Technology · +4
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  20. 2020
    Modeling the Background for Incremental Learning in Semantic SegmentationFabio Cermelli, Massimiliano Mancini, Samuel Rota Bulò … Barbara CaputoCVPR · Politecnico di Torino · Italian Institute of Technology · +3
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  21. 2020
    Online Continual Learning under Extreme Memory ConstraintsEnrico Fini, Stéphane Lathuilière, Enver Sangineto … Elisa RicciSpringer LNCS · University of Trento · Télécom Paris · +2
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  22. 2019
    Incremental learning for the detection and classification of GAN-generated imagesFrancesco Marra, Cristiano Saltori, Giulia Boato, Luisa VerdolivaInternational Workshop on Information Forensics and Security · Federico II University Hospital · University of Trento
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  23. 2019
    Learning to Remember: A Synaptic Plasticity Driven Framework for Continual LearningOleksiy Ostapenko, Mihai Puscas, Tassilo Klein … Moin NabiCVPR · Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · University of Trento · +1
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  24. 2019
    Psycholinguistics Meets Continual Learning: Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question AnsweringClaudio Greco, Barbara Plank, Raquel Fernández, Raffaella BernardiOpen Research (University of Surrey) · University of Trento · IT University of Copenhagen · +1
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  25. 2018
    Adding New Tasks to a Single Network with Weight Trasformations using Binary MasksMassimiliano Mancini, Elisa Ricci, Barbara Caputo, Samuel Rota BulòSpringer LNCS · Fondazione Bruno Kessler · Sapienza University of Rome · +2
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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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