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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
    PrePrompt: Predictive Prompting for Class Incremental LearningLibo Huang, Xiangqi Li, Jiarui Zhao … Yongjun XuKDD · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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  2. 2026
    ComAdPro: compositional learning with prototype adaptation for logo few-shot class-incremental recognition (ChinaMM 2025)Jianxin Zhan, 陈文泰, Sujuan Hou, Weiqing MinMultimedia Systems · Shandong Normal University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  3. 2025
    A study on data-free knowledge distillation for non-IID problems in federated continual learningJiahao Yang, Xilong Wang, Weili Wu, Tianlong HuoEighth International Conference on Artificial Intelligenc… · Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications · Institute of Computing Technology
  4. 2025
    Adversarial Robust Memory-Based Continual LearnerXiaoyue Mi, Fan Tang, Zonghan Yang … Yang LiuICCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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  5. 2025
    Progressive Homeostatic and Plastic Prompt Tuning for Audio-Visual Multi-Task Incremental LearningJiong Yin, Li Li, Jiehua Zhang … Xichun ShengICCV · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  6. 2025
    Feature Decomposition-Recomposition in Large Vision-Language Model for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZongyao Xue, Meina Kan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin ChenICCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology
  7. 2025
    CorpusBrain++: A Continual Generative Pre-Training Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Language TasksJiafeng Guo, Changjiang Zhou, Ruqing Zhang … Xueqi ChengACM Transactions · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  8. 2025
    FedPTR: Enhancing Federated Prompt Learning with Server-Side Retraining for Non-IID DataYufeng Chen, Min Liu, Sheng Sun, Zhongcheng LiIJCNN · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  9. 2025
    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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  10. 2025
    Low-redundancy distillation for continual learningRuiqi Liu, Boyu Diao, Libo Huang … Yongjun XuPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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  11. 2025
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Asymmetric Supervised Contrastive LearningDuo Liu, Linglan Zhao, Zhongqiang Zhang … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent (China) · +4
  12. 2025
    IOR: Inversed Objects Replay for Incremental Object DetectionZijia An, Boyu Diao, Libo Huang … Yongjun XuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology
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  13. 2024
    Domain Shared and Specific Prompt Learning for Incremental Monocular Depth EstimationZhiwen Yang, Liang Li, Jiehua Zhang … Chenggang YanACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  14. 2024
    Information Retrieval Optimization for Non-Exemplar Class Incremental LearningShuai Guo, Yang Gu, Yuan Ma … Yiqiang ChenCIKM · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  15. 2024
    Towards Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding via Incremental DistillationJiajun Liu, Wenjun Ke, Peng Wang … Yanhe LiuAAAI · Southeast University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  16. 2024
    eTag: Class-Incremental Learning via Embedding Distillation and Task-Oriented GenerationLibo Huang, Yan Zeng, Chuanguang Yang … Yongjun XuAAAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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  17. 2024
    Domain-incremental learning without forgetting based on random vector functional link networksChengRan Liu, Yi Wang, Dong Li, Xizhao WangPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
  18. 2022
    Rethinking class orders and transferability in class incremental learningChen He, Ruiping Wang, Xilin ChenPattern Recognition Letters · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
  19. 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
  20. 2021
    Pruning-then-Expanding Model for Domain Adaptation of Neural Machine TranslationShuhao Gu, Yang Feng, Wanying XieNAACL · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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  21. 2018
    Hybrid incremental learning of new data and new classes for hand-held object recognitionChengpeng Chen, Weiqing Min, Xue Li, Shuqiang JiangJournal of Visual Communication and Image Representation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
  22. 2018
    A novel random forests based class incremental learning method for activity recognitionChunyu Hu, Yiqiang Chen, Lisha Hu, Xiaohui PengPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
  23. 2017
    Dual Track Multimodal Automatic Learning through Human-Robot InteractionShuqiang Jiang, Weiqing Min, Xue Li … Jiaqi ZhouIJCAI · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +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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