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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
    Learning forward-compatible and domain-invariant representations for cross-domain few-shot class-incremental learningWeidong Shi, Xudong Yan, Jiazheng Yuan … Songhe FengNeural Networks · Beijing Jiaotong University · Beijing Normal University · +3
  2. 2026
    ReBac: Current-to-Past Residual Background Correction for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuangyu Gao, Anqi Zhang, Jianbo Jiao … Yunchao WeiIJCV · Beijing Institute of Technology · University of Birmingham · +1
  3. 2026
    DOR: Decoupled Orthogonal Replay for Low-Cost Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringZ X SunInternational Conference on Image and Graphics Processing… · Beijing Jiaotong University
  4. 2026
    Hybrid Offline–Online Learning of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Forecasting Nonstationary Streaming Time SeriesX. Liu, Yingjun Zhang, Hui Wang … Baigen CaiIEEE Transactions · Lanzhou Jiaotong University · Beijing Jiaotong University · +1
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  5. 2026
    AdaptCMVC++: Robust and Flexible Adaptation to Incremental Views in Continual Multi-view Clustering.Jing Wang, Songhe Feng, Jiacheng Li … Michael KampffmeyerTPAMI · Beijing Foreign Studies University · Beijing Jiaotong University · +2
  6. 2026
    CLASH-CTTA: Class-Wise Shift-Aware Hierarchical Continual Test-Time AdaptationJ T Li, Songhe FengTIP · Beijing Jiaotong University
  7. 2026
    Co$^{2}$ In: a Bi-level Memory Incremental Learning Framework with Knowledge Encoding, Consolidation, and Integration.Wenju Sun, Qingyong Li, Boyang Li … Yangli-ao GengTPAMI · Beijing Jiaotong University · Nanyang Technological University
  8. 2026
    Group-Merger: A LoRA-based Framework for Multilingual Continual LearningWeijian yi, Hongliang Li, Jinan XuWorkshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language… · Beijing Jiaotong University
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  9. 2025
    Continual Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation via Meta-Contrastive Memory ReplayLin Zhou, Degen Huang, Junpeng Liu … Kaiyu HuangSpringer LNCS · Dalian University of Technology · Université de Montréal · +1
  10. 2025
    Fed-OGD: Mitigating Straggler Effects in Federated Learning via Orthogonal Gradient DescentWei Li, Zicheng Shen, Xiulong Liu … Jiaxing ShenIEEE Transactions · Jiangnan University · Tianjin University · +1
  11. 2025
    CoMBO: Conflict Mitigation via Branched Optimization for Class Incremental SegmentationKai Fang, Anqi Zhang, Guangyu Gao … Yunchao WeiCVPR · Beijing Institute of Technology · University of Birmingham · +1
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  12. 2025
    AdaptCMVC: Robust Adaption to Incremental Views in Continual Multi-view ClusteringJing Wang, Songhe Feng, Kristoffer Wickstrøm, Michael KampffmeyerCVPR · Beijing Jiaotong University · UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  13. 2025
    LAGD: Local Topological-Alignment and Global Semantic-Deconstruction for Incremental 3D Semantic SegmentationYumin Zhang, Haoran Duan, Rui Sun … Bo WeiAAAI · Newcastle University · Beijing Jiaotong University
  14. 2025
    Multi-Stage LLM Fine-Tuning with a Continual Learning SettingChanghao Guan, Chao Huang, Hongliang Li … Jian LiuNAACL · Beijing Jiaotong University · University of Science and Technology Beijing
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  15. 2025
    CCKA: Continual Cross-Domain Knowledge Adaptation for Multi-Domain Machine TranslationZhibo Man, Yujie Zhang, Yuanmeng Chen … Jinan XuIEEE Transactions · Beijing Jiaotong University
  16. 2024
    Incremental Learning via Robust Parameter Posterior FusionWenju Sun, Qingyong Li, Siyu Zhang … Yangli-ao GengACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beijing Jiaotong University
  17. 2024
    Generative Replay and Multi-steps Knowledge Distillation in Class-Incremental LearningYicheng Meng, J. L. Ping, Jingye Shi, Ruicong Zhi2024 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intellige… · University of Science and Technology Beijing · Beijing Jiaotong University
  18. 2024
    CLOVA: A Closed-LOop Visual Assistant with Tool Usage and UpdateZhi Gao, Yuntao Du, Xintong Zhang … Qing LiCVPR · King University · Peking University · +2
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  19. 2024
    Continual Learning with Confidence-based Multi-teacher Knowledge Distillation for Neural Machine TranslationJiahua Guo, Yunlong Liang, Jinan XuInternational Conference on Natural Language Processing (… · Beijing Jiaotong University
  20. 2024
    Continual Learning with Semi-supervised Contrastive Distillation for Incremental Neural Machine TranslationYunlong Liang, Fandong Meng, Jiaan Wang … Jie ZhouACL · Beijing Jiaotong University · Tencent (China)
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  21. 2024
    ICL: Iterative Continual Learning for Multi-domain Neural Machine TranslationZhibo Man, Kaiyu Huang, Yujie Zhang … Jinan XuEMNLP · Beijing Jiaotong University
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  22. 2023
    SLCA: Slow Learner with Classifier Alignment for Continual Learning on a Pre-trained ModelGengwei Zhang, Liyuan Wang, Guoliang Kang … Yunchao WeiICCV · University of Technology Sydney · Tsinghua University · +2
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  23. 2023
    MetaGCD: Learning to Continually Learn in Generalized Category DiscoveryYanan Wu, Zhixiang Chi, Yang Wang, Songhe FengICCV · Beijing Jiaotong University · University of Toronto · +1
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  24. 2023
    CTP: Towards Vision-Language Continual Pretraining via Compatible Momentum Contrast and Topology PreservationHongguang Zhu, Yunchao Wei, Xiaodan Liang … Yao ZhaoICCV · Beijing Jiaotong University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  25. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning based on Identically Distributed Parallel One-Class ClassifiersWenju Sun, Qingyong Li, Jing Zhang … Yangli‐ao GengNeurocomputing · Beijing Jiaotong University
  26. 2023
    MetaZSCIL: A Meta-Learning Approach for Generalized Zero-Shot Class Incremental LearningYanan Wu, Tengfei Liang, Songhe Feng … Yang WangAAAI · Beijing Jiaotong University · Beijing University of Technology · +2
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  27. 2023
    Decoupling Learning and Remembering: a Bilevel Memory Framework with Knowledge Projection for Task-Incremental LearningWenju Sun, Qingyong Li, Jing Zhang … Yangli‐ao GengCVPR · Beijing Jiaotong University
  28. 2023
    Exemplar-free class incremental learning via discriminative and comparable parallel one-class classifiersWenju Sun, Qingyong Li, Jing Zhang … Yangli‐ao GengPattern Recognition · Beijing Jiaotong University
  29. 2021
    ILCOC: An Incremental Learning Framework based on Contrastive One-class ClassifiersWenju Sun, Jing Zhang, Danyu Wang … Qingyong LiCVPR · Beijing Jiaotong 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. 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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