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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
    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
  3. 2026
    Sculpting Margin Penalty: Intra-Task Adapter Merging and Classifier Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningLiang Bai, Hong Song, J. W. Li … Jian YangIEEE TCSVT · Beijing Institute of Technology
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  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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)
  9. 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
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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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