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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. 2025
    IAP: Improving Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Instance-Aware PromptingHao Fu, Hanbin Zhao, Jiahua Dong … Hui QianTIP · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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    CRISP: Contrastive Residual Injection and Semantic Prompting for Continual Video Instance SegmentationBaichen Liu, Qi Lyu, Xudong Wang … Zhi HanTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  3. 2025
    Multi-Level Collaborative Distillation Meets Global Workspace Model: A Unified Framework for OCILShibin Su, Guoqiang Liang, De Cheng … Lingyan RanTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  4. 2025
    CWPS: Efficient Channel-Wise Parameter Sharing for Knowledge TransferMingxuan Cui, Tao Wu, Xuewei Li … Xi LiTIP · Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · +2
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  7. 2025
    CCD: Continual Consistency Diffusion for Lifelong Generative ModelingJingren Liu, Zhong Ji, Shuning Xu … Xiangyu ChenTIP
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  8. 2025
    Lightweight Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation Without Catastrophic ForgettingWei Cong, Yang Cong, Yu RenTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  9. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning via Contrastive Complementary AugmentationXi Wang, Xu Yang, Kun Wei … Cheng DengTIP · Xidian University
  10. 2025
    Fast Partial-Modal Online Cross-Modal HashingFengling Li, Yang Sun, Tianshi Wang … Xiaojun ChangTIP · University of Technology Sydney · Shandong Normal University · +1
  11. 2025
    Enhancing Continual Semantic Segmentation via Uncertainty and Class Balance Re-WeightingZichen Liang, Yusong Hu, Fei Yang, Xialei LiuTIP · Nankai University
  12. 2025
    Session-Guided Attention in Continuous Learning With Few SamplesZicheng Pan, Xiaohan Yu, Yongsheng GaoTIP · Griffith University · Macquarie University
  13. 2025
    Dual-Domain Division Multiplexer for General Continual Learning: A Pseudo Causal Intervention StrategyJian-Yong wu, Shaofan Wang, Yanfeng Sun … Qingming HuangTIP · Beijing University of Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  14. 2025
    Geodesic-Aligned Gradient Projection for Continual Task LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Haitao Wen … Hongliang LiTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  15. 2025
    A3-TTA: Adaptive Anchor Alignment Test-Time Adaptation for Image SegmentationJianghao Wu, Xiangde Luo, Yubo Zhou … Shaoting ZhangTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +1
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  16. 2025
    Dual Uncertainty-Aware Correspondence Adapting and Retaining for Continual Composed Image RetrievalHaoliang Zhou, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng XuTIP · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  17. 2025
    Enhancing Feature Learning With Hard Samples in Mutual Learning for Online Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Shibin Su, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  18. 2025
    Large Visual Language Models Continual Learning With Dynamic Mixture of ExpertsYizhou Chen, Xihao Huang, Wei ZhangTIP · Fudan University
  19. 2025
    Self-Supervised Discovery of Cross-Lingual Shared Knowledge for Continual Text RecognitionXuexun Liu, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun XuTIP · Shandong University
  20. 2025
    BITS: Bit-Extendable Incremental Hashing in Open EnvironmentsYongxin Wang, Zhen-Duo Chen, Xin Luo, Xin-Shun XuTIP · Shandong Jianzhu University · Shandong University
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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