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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
    Singular Value Fine-Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhiwu Wang, Yichen Wu, Renzhen Wang … Deyu MengIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · City University of Hong Kong
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  2. 2026
    Evidential Prior Guided Neural Collapse for Open World Object DetectionKewen Xia, Xiaodong Yue, Wei Liu … Yaxin PengIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai University · Tongji University
  3. 2026
    GAIN: Global-Atomic INteraction Graph for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFan Lyu, Linglan Zhao, Changli Liu … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +6
  4. 2026
    Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry PreservationChiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hongliang LiIEEE TCSVT
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  5. 2026
  6. 2026
    Learning Unknowns Without Forgetting Knowns: Compositional and Bidirectional Low-Rank Adaptive Open-World Detection TransformerY. M. Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Chunqiang XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
  7. 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
  8. 2026
    CoMasTRe+: Unleashing Disentangled Continual Segmentation With Mixture of Continual AdaptersYizheng Gong, Siyue Yu, Liquan Shen, Jimin XiaoIEEE TCSVT · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Shanghai University
  9. 2026
    CLIP-Based Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation Framework With Generalization-Preserving Knowledge DistillationQining Ren, Zhenyu Zhang, Depeng Li, Zhigang ZengIEEE TCSVT · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  10. 2026
    Adaptive Continual Learning for Online Visual Object Tracking via Dynamic Grassmannian Appearance ModelingJinglin Zhou, Tianyang Xu, Xuefeng Zhu … Josef KittlerIEEE TCSVT · Jiangnan University · University of Surrey
  11. 2026
    Retrieval-Augmented Pseudo-Image Guided Alignment and Text Domain-Aware Memory Recall for Continual Zero-Shot CaptioningBing Liu, Wenjie Yang, Mingming Liu … Yong ZhouIEEE TCSVT · China University of Mining and Technology · Jiangsu Vocational Institute of Architectural Technology · +1
  12. 2026
    Adaptive Quantization for Stable Knowledge Acquisition in Quantization-Aware Continual LearningDe Cheng, Kun Gu, Lingfeng He … Xinbo GaoIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Huawei Technologies (China)
  13. 2026
    Functionality Separation: Rethinking Dual-Stream Networks for Class-Incremental LearningQi Gao, Xiaoyan Li, Zhongfan Sun … Wen GaoIEEE TCSVT · Beijing University of Technology · Imperial College London · +1
  14. 2026
    Prompt-Driven Bit Extension Hashing for Continual Cross-Modal RetrievalWenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li … Lei ZhuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong Normal University · Tongji University · +2
  15. 2026
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Online Continual Learning With Dual-Margin Contrastive ReplayFan Lyu, Gongbo Cheng, Daofeng Liu … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  16. 2026
    Adaptive Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Qin Chen … Liang HeIEEE TCSVT · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +2
  17. 2026
    Rethinking Obscured Sub-Optimality in Analytic Learning for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningZijian Gao, Kele Xu, Xingxing Zhang … Huaimin WangIEEE TCSVT · National University of Defense Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
  18. 2026
    Bridging Inter-Task Gap of Continual Self-Supervised Learning With External DataHaori Lu, Xusheng Cao, Linlan Huang … Xialei LiuIEEE TCSVT · Nankai University
  19. 2026
    Class-Specific Knowledge-Guided Multimodal Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFangying Xiong, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu, Changsheng XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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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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