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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
    MEMTS: Internalizing Domain Knowledge via Parameterized Memory for Retrieval-Free Domain Adaptation of Time Series Foundation ModelsXiaoyun Yu, Li Fan, Xiangfei Qiu … Jilin HuKDD · East China Normal University · Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine · +3
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  2. 2026
    Eliciting CLIP's intrinsic attribute knowledge through a dual-cache guided mechanism for class-incremental learningShengcheng Ye, Ziyi Wang, Yaomin Huang … Guixu ZhangKnowledge-Based Systems · East China Normal University
  3. 2026
    Revisiting Prototypes for Open-Domain Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsYadong Lu, Shitian Zhao, Boxiang Yun … Yue WangICASSP · East China Normal University
  4. 2026
    Developing Evolving Adaptability in Biological Intelligence: A Novel Biologically-Inspired Continual Learning Model for Video Saliency PredictionDandan Zhu, Kaiwei Zhang, Kun Zhu … Xiaokang YangTPAMI · East China Normal University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · +3
  5. 2025
    Adaptive Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Qin Chen … Liang HeIEEE TCSVT · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +2
  6. 2025
    CEM: A Data-Efficient Method for Large Language Models to Continue Evolving From MistakesHaokun Zhao, Jinyi Han, Jie Shi … Fei YuCIKM · Fudan University · East China Normal University · +1
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  7. 2025
    Lark: Low-Rank Updates After Knowledge Localization for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJinxin Shi, Jiabao Zhao, Yifan Yang … Liang HeICCV · East China Normal University · Donghua University
  8. 2025
    Domain-Incremental Learning Paradigm for scene understanding via Pseudo-Replay GenerationZhifeng Xie, Rui Qiu, Qile He … Xin TanGraphical Models · Shanghai University · East China Normal University
  9. 2025
    CL-MoE: Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Model with Dual Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Xingjiao Wu … Liang HeCVPR · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +1
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  10. 2025
    One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly DetectionXiaofan Li, Xin Tan, Zhuo Chen … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +2
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  11. 2025
    Bias to Balance: New-Knowledge-Preferred Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Transition CalibrationHongquan Zhang, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieTNNLS · East China Normal University · Xiamen University
  12. 2025
    MultiSFL: Towards Accurate Split Federated Learning via Multi-Model Aggregation and Knowledge ReplayZeke Xia, Ming Hu, Dengke Yan … Mingsong ChenAAAI · East China Normal University · Singapore Management University · +1
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  13. 2025
    Interweaving Memories of a Siamese Large Language ModelXin Song, Zhenwei Xue, Guoxiu He … Wei LuAAAI · East China Normal University · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · +1
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  14. 2025
    Efficient Prototypical Classifier for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Jingyang Qiao, Yuan Xie … Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
  15. 2025
    Prototype Alignment with LoRA Fusion for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
  16. 2025
    Spatio-Temporal Prediction on Streaming Data: A Unified Federated Continuous Learning FrameworkHao Miao, Yan Zhao, Chenjuan Guo … Christian S. JensenTKDE · Aalborg University · East China Normal University
  17. 2024
    FPPL: An Efficient and Non-IID Robust Federated Continual Learning FrameworkYuchen He, Chuyun Shen, Xiangfeng Wang, Bo JinIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · East China Normal University · Tongji University
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  18. 2024
    Masked Autoencoders are Parameter-Efficient Federated Continual LearnersYuchen He, Xiangfeng WangIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · East China Normal University
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  19. 2024
    Recent Advances of Foundation Language Models-based Continual Learning: A SurveyYutao Yang, Jie Zhou, Xuanwen Ding … Liang HeACM Computing Surveys · East China Normal University
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  20. 2024
    Potential Knowledge Extraction Network for Class-Incremental LearningXidong Xi, Guitao Cao, Wenming Cao … He RenNeurocomputing · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing · East China Normal University · +1
  21. 2024
    Generating Prompts in Latent Space for Rehearsal-free Continual LearningChengyi Yang, Wentao Liu, Shisong Chen … Aimin ZhouACM International Conference on Multimedia · East China Normal University · Guangzhou University
  22. 2024
    Introducing Common Null Space of Gradients for Gradient Projection Methods in Continual LearningChengyi Yang, Mingda Dong, Xiaoyue Zhang … Aimin ZhouACM International Conference on Multimedia · East China Normal University · Shanghai University of International Business and Economics · +1
  23. 2024
    Purified Distillation: Bridging Domain Shift and Category Gap in Incremental Object DetectionShilong Jia, Tingting Wu, Yingying Fang … Zhi LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · East China Normal University · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +1
  24. 2024
    QCore: Data-Efficient, On-Device Continual Calibration for Quantized Models - Extended VersionDavid Campos, Bin Yang, Tung Kieu … Christian S. JensenVLDB · Aalborg University · East China Normal University · +1
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  25. 2024
    Learning Task-Aware Language-Image Representation for Class-Incremental Object DetectionHongquan Zhang, Bin-Bin Gao, Yi Zeng … Yuan XieAAAI · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
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  26. 2024
    PAMK: Prototype Augmented Multi-Teacher Knowledge Transfer Network for Continual Zero-Shot LearningJunxin Lu, Shiliang SunTIP · East China Normal University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  27. 2024
    Isolation and Integration: A Strong Pre-trained Model-Based Paradigm for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin TanSpringer LNCS · East China Normal University
  28. 2024
    Self-supervised Contrastive Feature Refinement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShengjin Ma, Wang Yuan, Yiting Wang … Lizhuang MaSpringer LNCS · East China Normal University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  29. 2023
    Continual Learning via Manifold Expansion ReplayZihao Xu, Xuan Tang, Yufei Shi … Xian WeiIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · East China Normal University · Sun Yat-sen University · +2
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  30. 2023
    Instance and Category Supervision are Alternate Learners for Continual LearningXudong Tian, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieICCV · Chongqing Normal University · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Computer Software Testing and Evaluating · +3
  31. 2023
    AttriCLIP: A Non-Incremental Learner for Incremental Knowledge LearningRunqi Wang, Xiaoyue Duan, Guoliang Kang … Baochang ZhangCVPR · Huawei Technologies (Sweden) · Beihang University · +1
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  32. 2023
    GradMA: A Gradient-Memory-based Accelerated Federated Learning with Alleviated Catastrophic ForgettingKangyang Luo, Xiang Li, Yunshi Lan, Ming GaoCVPR · East China Normal University
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  33. 2023
    Rethinking Gradient Projection Continual Learning: Stability/Plasticity Feature Space DecouplingZhen Zhao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Lizhuang MaCVPR · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
  34. 2023
    Multi-Centroid Task Descriptor for Dynamic Class Incremental InferenceTenghao Cai, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +1
  35. 2023
    Uncertainty-Aware Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJiancai Zhu, Jiabao Zhao, Jiayi Zhou … Zhi ZhangICASSP · East China Normal University · New York University Shanghai · +1
  36. 2023
    Rehearsal-free Continual Language Learning via Efficient Parameter IsolationZhicheng Wang, Yufang Liu, Tao Ji … Wenqiu ZengACL · East China Normal University · China Institute of Finance and Capital Markets
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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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