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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Alleviating Regional Shortcuts for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningHaichen Zhou, Y. Lyu, Yixiong Zou … Yu-Hua LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  3. 2026
    Generalizable and Adaptive Continual Learning Framework for AI-Generated Image DetectionHan-Yi Wang, Jun Lan, Yaoyu Kang … Shilin WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  4. 2026
    Distortion-Sensitive Masked Autoencoder for Omnidirectional Video Quality AssessmentZongyao Hu, Lixiong Liu, Ke Gu … A. BovikIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  5. 2026
    PIC-CMH: Efficient Prompt-Infused Continual Cross-Modal HashingFengling Li, Wenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang … Xiaojun ChangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  6. 2026
    Toward Bidirectional Adaptability for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning With Forward-Backward Knowledge TransferBingzhi Chen, Zhiming Chen, Sudong Cai … Sheng-Li XieIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  7. 2026
    Continual Learning Via Gradient-Regularized Based Dynamic Expansion ModelFei Ye, Yong Zhong, Qi-He Liu … Shi-Jie ZhouIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  8. 2026
    DCFD-FFCL:Decoupling Causal Effects and Feature Drift for Freedom-Forgetting Continual LearningJing Yang, Qinglang Li, Xinyu Zhou … M. NegnevitskyIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  9. 2026
    Debiased Hypernetworks Are Generative Class-Incremental LearnersShaofan Wang, Pengli Guo, Weixing Wang … Baocai YinIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  11. 2026
    Topology-Evolving Semantic Adaptation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Action RecognitionXingyu Zhu, Binqian Xu, Jia-Chao Zhang … Xiangbo ShuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  12. 2025
    DesCLIP: Robust Continual Learning via General Attribute Descriptions for VLM-Based Visual RecognitionChi-Yuan He, Zi-Huan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  13. 2025
    Unleash the Power of Vision-Language Models by Visual Attention Prompt and Multimodal InteractionWenyao Zhang, Le Wu, Zequn Zhang … Wenjun ZengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  14. 2025
    CMoA: Contrastive Mixture of Adapters for Generalized Few-Shot Continual LearningYawen Cui, Jian Zhao, Zitong Yu … Xuelong LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  15. 2025
    Source-Free Elastic Model Adaptation for Vision-and-Language NavigationMingkui Tan, Peihao Chen, Hongyan Zhi … Runhao ZengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  16. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning for Image Classification With Out-of-Distribution Task IdentificationXusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Xialei Liu, Ming-Ming ChengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  17. 2025
    Visual Class Incremental Learning With Textual Priors Guidance Based on an Adapted Vision-Language ModelWentao Zhang, Tong Yu, Ruixuan Wang … Xiaobo YangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  18. 2025
    Enhanced Reasoning via Multimodal LLMs and Collaborative InferenceZ. Wen, Minkui Tan, Yaowei Wang … Qi WuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  19. 2025
    Plug-In Open-Set Cross-Modal HashingBowen Wang, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li … Jingjing LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  20. 2025
  21. 2025
    Memory-Enhanced Confidence Calibration for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationJia-Ping Yu, Muli Yang, Aming Wu, Cheng DengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  22. 2025
    Boosting Dataset Distillation With the Assistance of Crucial Samples for Visual LearningXiaodan Li, Yao Zhu, Yuefeng Chen … Shuhui WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  23. 2025
    Dual-Attention Transformers for Class-Incremental Learning: A Tale of Two MemoriesShaofan Wang, Weixing Wang, Yanfeng Sun … Baocai YinIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  24. 2025
    Self-Reflection Neural Network for Class-Incremental Object CountingShengqin Jiang, Linfei Li, Fengna Cheng … Qing-Shan LiuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  25. 2025
    WI3D: Weakly Incremental 3D Detection via Vision Foundation ModelsMingsheng Li, Sijin Chen, Shengji Tang … Tao ChenIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  26. 2024
    Distribution-Level Memory Recall for Continual Learning: Preserving Knowledge and Avoiding ConfusionShaoxu Cheng, Kanglei Geng, Chi-Yuan He … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  27. 2024
    Constructing Enhanced Mutual Information for Online Class-Incremental LearningHuan Zhang, Fan Lyu, Shenghua Fan … Dingwen WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  28. 2026
    Rethinking Class-Incremental Learning from a Dynamic Imbalanced Learning PerspectiveLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yunlong Wang … Zhaofeng HeIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  29. 2024
    Analogical Augmentation and Significance Analysis for Online Task-Free Continual LearningSonglin Dong, Yingjie Chen, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  30. 2021
    Relational Experience Replay: Continual Learning by Adaptively Tuning Task-Wise RelationshipQuanziang Wang, Renzhen Wang, Yuexiang Li … Deyu MengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Tencent (China) · +1
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  31. 2024
    Cross-Modal Alternating Learning With Task-Aware Representations for Continual LearningWu-Jun Li, Bin-Bin Gao, Bizhong Xia … Feng ZhengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  32. 2024
    Modeling Inner- and Cross-Task Contrastive Relations for Continual Image ClassificationYuxuan Luo, Runmin Cong, Xialei Liu … S. KwongIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  33. 2024
  34. 2024
    InfoUCL: Learning Informative Representations for Unsupervised Continual LearningLiang Zhang, Jiangwei Zhao, Qingbo Wu … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  35. 2022
    Rethinking Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning With Open-Set Hypothesis in Hyperbolic GeometryYawen Cui, Zitong Yu, Wei Peng … Li LiuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · Great Bay University · +3
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  36. 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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  37. 2023
    Gradient-Semantic Compensation for Incremental Semantic SegmentationWei Cong, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Henghui DingIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  38. 2023
    Long-Tailed Continual Learning For Visual Food RecognitionJiangpeng He, Xiaoyan Zhang, Luotao Lin … F. ZhuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  40. 2023
    Camera-Incremental Object Re-Identification With Identity Knowledge EvolutionHantao Yao, Jifei Luo, Lu Yu, Changsheng XuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  41. 2023
  42. 2023
    Lifelong Fine-Grained Image RetrievalWei Chen, Haoyang Xu, Nan Pu … M. LewIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  43. 2021
    LIQA: Lifelong Blind Image Quality AssessmentJianzhao Liu, Wei Zhou, Xin Li … Zhibo ChenIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Science and Technology of China
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  44. 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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  45. 2022
    Feature Estimations Based Correlation Distillation for Incremental Image RetrievalWei Chen, Yu Liu, Nan Pu … M. LewIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  46. 2021
    Real-world Cross-modal Retrieval via Sequential LearningGe Song, Xiaoyang TanIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Ministry of Industry and Information Technology · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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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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