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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2024
    Streaming Continual Learning for Unified Adaptive Intelligence in Dynamic EnvironmentsFederico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo LomonacoIEEE Intelligent Systems · Politecnico di Milano · University of Pisa
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  2. 2024
    Replay-Free Continual Low-Rank Adaptation with Dynamic MemoryHuancheng Chen, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang … Lingjuan LyuarXiv
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  3. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Task-Specific Batch Normalization and Out-of-Distribution DetectionZhou, Zhiping, Xuchen Xie, Yiqiao Qiu … Ruixuan WangNeurocomputing
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  4. 2024
    MAGR: Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization for Continual Action Quality AssessmentKanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang … Xiaohui LiangECCV · Durham University · Beihang University · +2
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  5. 2024
    Category Adaptation Meets Projected Distillation in Generalized Continual Category DiscoveryGrzegorz Rypeść, Daniel Marczak, Sebastian Cygert … Bartłomiej TwardowskiECCV · Warsaw University of Technology · Gdańsk University of Technology · +1
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  6. 2024
    Adaptive Decoupled Prompting for Class Incremental LearningFanhao Zhang, Shiye Wang, Changsheng Li … Guoren WangSpringer LNCS · Beijing Institute of Technology
  7. 2024
    Adaptive Knowledge Matching for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningRunhang Chen, Xiao‐Yuan Jing, Haowen ChenSpringer LNCS · Wuhan University · Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology · +1
  8. 2024
    Incremental Learning of Retrievable Skills For Efficient Continual Task AdaptationDaehee Lee, Minjong Yoo, Woo Kyung Kim … Honguk WooNeurIPS
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  9. 2024
    Adapt Without Forgetting: Distill Proximity from Dual Teachers in Vision-Language ModelsMengyu Zheng, Yehui Tang, Zhiwei Hao … Chang XuECCV · The University of Sydney · Huawei Technologies (Canada) · +1
  10. 2024
    STSP: Spatial-Temporal Subspace Projection for Video Class-Incremental LearningHao Cheng, Siyuan Yang, Chong Wang … Bihan WenECCV · Nanyang Technological University · Hebei University of Technology · +1
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  12. 2024
    Permutation Invariant Learning with High-Dimensional Particle FiltersAkhilan Boopathy, Aneesh Muppidi, Peggy Yang … Ila FietearXiv
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  13. 2024
    Toward Multi-Agent Coordination in IoT via Prompt Pool-based Continual Reinforcement LearningChenhang Xu, Jia Wang, Xiaohui Zhu … Jieming MaInternational Symposium on Image and Signal Processing an…
  14. 2024
    Learning Successor Features the Simple WayRaymond Chua, Arna Ghosh, Christos Kaplanis … Doina PrecupNeurIPS
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  15. 2024
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Robot Continual Learning: A Guided Policy Search Approach Enhanced With Memory-Aware SynapsesQingwei Dong, Peng Zeng, Yunpeng He … Xiaoting DongRA-L · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences
  16. 2024
    Continual learning with high-order experience replay for dynamic network embeddingZhizheng Wang, Yuanyuan Sun, Xiaokun Zhang … Hongfei LinPattern Recognition · Dalian University of Technology
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  18. 2024
    On the Approximation Risk of Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXuan Wang, Zhong Ji, Xiyao Liu … Jungong HanECCV · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
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  20. 2024
    Continual Learning of 3D Point Cloud with Hyperbolic Manifold ReplayYu Jin, Zihao Xu, Zhengyu Li … Xian WeiIEEE 36th International Conference on Tools with Artifici… · East China Normal University
  21. 2024
    Large Pre-Training Datasets Don't Always Guarantee Robustness after Fine-TuningJaedong Hwang, Brian Cheung, Zhang-Wei Hong … Ila FietearXiv
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  22. 2024
    Vector Quantization Prompting for Continual LearningJiao Li, Qiuxia Lai, Yu Li, Qiang XuNeurIPS
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  23. 2024
    CP-Prompt: Composition-Based Cross-modal Prompting for Domain-Incremental Continual LearningYu Feng, Zhen Tian, Yifan Zhu … Meina SongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  24. 2024
    Overcoming Spatial-Temporal Catastrophic Forgetting for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHao Yu, Xin Yang, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Sichuan University · +2
  25. 2024
    MMAL: Multi-Modal Analytic Learning for Exemplar-Free Audio-Visual Class Incremental TasksXianghu Yue, Xueyi Zhang, Yiming Chen … Haizhou LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · National University of Singapore · National University of Defense Technology · +5
  26. 2024
    Low-rank Prompt Interaction for Continual Vision-Language RetrievalW. B. Yan, Ye Wang, Lin Wang … Tao JinACM International Conference on Multimedia · Zhejiang University
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  27. 2024
    LLMs Can Evolve Continually on Modality for X-Modal ReasoningJiazuo Yu, Xiong, Haomiao, Pengfei Zhang … Long ChenNeurIPS
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  28. 2024
    Class Balance Matters to Active Class-Incremental LearningZhenhong Huang, Ze Chen, Yuanze Li … Wangmeng ZuoACM MM · Harbin Institute of Technology · Megvii (China) · +2
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  29. 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
  30. 2024
    Generating Prompts in Latent Space for Rehearsal-free Continual LearningChengyi Yang, Wentao Liu, Shisong Chen … Aimin ZhouACM International Conference on Multimedia · East China Normal University · Guangzhou University
  31. 2024
    Progressive Prototype Evolving for Dual-Forgetting Mitigation in Non-Exemplar Online Continual LearningQiwei Li, Yuxin Peng, Jiahuan ZhouACM International Conference on Multimedia · Peking University
  32. 2024
    Introducing Common Null Space of Gradients for Gradient Projection Methods in Continual LearningChengyi Yang, Mingda Dong, Xiaoyue Zhang … Aimin ZhouACM International Conference on Multimedia · East China Normal University · Shanghai University of International Business and Economics · +1
  33. 2024
    Prior-free Balanced Replay: Uncertainty-guided Reservoir Sampling for Long-Tailed Continual LearningLei Liu, Li Liu, Yawen CuiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · +3
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  34. 2024
    Hierarchical Multi-label Learning for Incremental Multilingual Text RecognitionXiaoqian Liu, Minghui Liu, Zhen-Duo Chen … Xin-Shun XuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Shandong University
  35. 2024
    Prompting Continual Person SearchPengcheng Zhang, Xiaohan Yu, Bai Xiao … Xin NingACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beihang University · Macquarie University · +2
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  36. 2024
    Domain Shared and Specific Prompt Learning for Incremental Monocular Depth EstimationZhiwen Yang, Liang Li, Jiehua Zhang … Chenggang YanACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  37. 2024
    Importance-aware Shared Parameter Subspace Learning for Domain Incremental LearningShiye Wang, Changsheng Li, Jialin Tang … Guoren WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beijing Institute of Technology
  38. 2024
    Incremental Learning via Robust Parameter Posterior FusionWenju Sun, Qingyong Li, Siyu Zhang … Yangli-ao GengACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beijing Jiaotong University
  39. 2024
    Purified Distillation: Bridging Domain Shift and Category Gap in Incremental Object DetectionShilong Jia, Tingting Wu, Yingying Fang … Zhi LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · East China Normal University · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +1
  40. 2024
    TS-ILM:Class Incremental Learning for Online Action DetectionXiaochen Li, Jian Cheng, Ziying Xia … Nyima TashiACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tibet University
  41. 2024
    Sustainable Self-evolution Adversarial TrainingWenxuan Wang, Chenglei Wang, Huihui Qi … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University
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  42. 2024
    Improving Multimodal Large Language Models Using Continual LearningShikhar Srivastava, Md Yousuf Harun, Robik Shrestha, Christopher KananarXiv
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  43. 2024
    Human Motion Forecasting in Dynamic Domain Shifts: A Homeostatic Continual Test-Time Adaptation FrameworkQiongjie Cui, Huaijiang Sun, Weiqing Li … Bin LiECCV · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  44. 2024
    Generative Replay and Multi-steps Knowledge Distillation in Class-Incremental LearningYicheng Meng, J. L. Ping, Jingye Shi, Ruicong Zhi2024 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intellige… · University of Science and Technology Beijing · Beijing Jiaotong University
  45. 2024
    PUMA: Efficient Continual Graph Learning for Node Classification With Graph CondensationYilun Liu, Ruihong Qiu, Yanran Tang … Zi HuangTKDE · The University of Queensland
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  46. 2024
    How to Continually Adapt Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Flexible Customization?Jiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanNeurIPS
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  48. 2024
    UnCLe: Benchmarking Unsupervised Continual Learning for Depth CompletionXien Chen, Gangopadhyay, Rit, Michael Chu … Alex WongarXiv
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  49. 2024
    Continual Learning on a Data DietElif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Murat Onur Yildirim, Joaquin VanschorenarXiv
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  50. 2024
    Long Term Memory: The Foundation of AI Self-EvolutionXun Jiang, Feng Li, Han Zhao … Tianqiao ChenarXiv
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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 lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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