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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
    Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language ModelsWu Bin, Wuxuan Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Mang YeCVPR · Wuhan University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  2. 2024
    Multi-Granularity Class Prototype Topology Distillation for Class-Incremental Source-Free Unsupervised Domain AdaptationPeihua Deng, Jiehua Zhang, Xichun Sheng … L. LiCVPR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +4
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  3. 2024
    Enhancing Visual Continual Learning with Language-Guided SupervisionBolin Ni, Hongbo Zhao, Chenghao Zhang … Shiming XiangCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  4. 2023
    VQACL: A Novel Visual Question Answering Continual Learning SettingXi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng XuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  5. 2023
    Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Duzhen Zhang, Yang Cong … Dengxin DaiCVPR · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  6. 2023
    Bilateral Memory Consolidation for Continual LearningXing Nie, Xu Shi-xiong, Xiyan Liu … Shiming XiangCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  7. 2022
    Federated Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Lixu Wang, Zhen Fang … Qi ZhuCVPR · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  8. 2021
    Mimicking the Oracle: An Initial Phase Decorrelation Approach for Class Incremental LearningYujun Shi, Kuangqi Zhou, Jian Liang … Vincent Y. F. TanCVPR · National University of Singapore · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  9. 2022
    Continual Stereo Matching of Continuous Driving Scenes with Growing ArchitectureChenghao Zhang, Kun Tian, Bin Fan … Chunhong PanCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  10. 2021
    Prototype Augmentation and Self-Supervision for Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Chuang Wang … Cheng‐Lin LiuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  11. 2021
    A Tale of Two CILs: The Connections between Class Incremental Learning and Class Imbalanced Learning, and BeyondChen He, Ruiping Wang, Xilin ChenCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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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