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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 a Fix and Explore Framework for Continuous Generalized Category DiscoveryChunming Li, Shidong Wang, Haofeng ZhangAAAI · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Newcastle University
  2. 2026
    A continual learning framework with long-term and multiple short-term memory networksShangge Liu, Lei Wang, Rui Yan … Yang GaoNeural Networks · Nanjing Tech University · University of Wollongong · +2
  3. 2026
    Boosting Few-Shot Continual Learning via Self-Adaptive EvolutionZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Yue Wang … Zhen CuiTIP · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University · +2
  4. 2026
    InfBA: Interference-Free Bottleneck Adaptation for Continual LearningYan-Shuo Liang, Weiwei LiTPAMI · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  5. 2026
    Preserving Fairness in Knowledge Transfer for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning via Semantic PropagationFankang Xu, Lu Jin, Yanpeng Sun, Zechao LiTIP · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Singapore University of Technology and Design
  6. 2026
    Topology-Evolving Semantic Adaptation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Action RecognitionXingyu Zhu, Binqian Xu, Jiachao Zhang … Xiangbo ShuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Institute of Technology · +1
  7. 2025
    THMM-CLIP: Task-Guided Hierarchical Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYingdong Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM Transactions · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +2
  8. 2025
    A Theoretical Perspective on Streaming Noisy Data With Distribution ShiftWenshui Luo, Shuo Chen, Tao Zhou, Chen GongTPAMI · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  9. 2025
    FCLHet: Spatiotemporal Knowledge Continual Learning for Federated Heterogeneous ModelsJinke Zhou, Guanyu GaoACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  10. 2024
    Dual prototypes for adaptive pre-trained model in class-incremental learningZhiming Xu, Zhiming Xu, Suorong Yang … Jian ZhaoNeural Networks · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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  11. 2025
    Serial Over Parallel: Learning Continual Unification for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking and BenchmarkingZhangyong Tang, Tianyang Xu, Xuefeng Zhu … Josef KittlerACM International Conference on Multimedia · Jiangnan University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +1
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  12. 2025
    Cross-Domain Attribute Alignment with CLIP: A Rehearsal-Free Approach for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationKerun Mi, Guoliang Kang, Guangyu Li … Chen GongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beihang University · +1
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  13. 2025
    Feature Drift Oriented Distribution Reconstruction for Imbalanced Class Incremental LearningTingmin Li, Fengqiang Wan, Yipeng Lin, Yang YangFrontiers · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  14. 2025
    CLIP-driven Few-Shot Continual LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Zhen CuiIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beijing Normal University
  15. 2025
    Prototypes as Anchors: Tackling Unseen Noise for online continual learningShao-Yuan Li, Yu-Xiang Zheng, Sheng-Jun Huang … Kangkan WangNeural Networks · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  16. 2025
    Supervised contrastive learning with prototype distillation for data incremental learningSuorong Yang, Tianyue Zhang, Zhiming Xu … Jian ZhaoNeural Networks · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing University
  17. 2025
    Learn and Ensemble Bridge Adapters for Multi-domain Task Incremental LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Wenxuan Fang … Zhen CuiNeurIPS · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Google (United States) · +1
  18. 2024
    TMM-CLIP: Task-guided Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYuankang Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +1
  19. 2024
    Human Motion Forecasting in Dynamic Domain Shifts: A Homeostatic Continual Test-Time Adaptation FrameworkQiongjie Cui, Huaijiang Sun, Weiqing Li … Bin LiSpringer LNCS · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  20. 2024
    Continual Learning meets Multimodal Foundation Models: Fundamentals and AdvancesWenbin Li, Qi Fan, Rui Yan … Jiebo Luoon Continual Learning meets Multimodal Foundation Models:… · Nanjing University · Systems Engineering Society of China · +3
  21. 2024
    Continual Multi-View Clustering with Consistent Anchor GuidanceWei Hua, Chenlin Zhou, Jibin Wu … Yangyang ShuIJCAI · Nanjing University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  22. 2023
    Create Your World: Lifelong Text-to-Image DiffusionGan Sun, Wenqi Liang, Jiahua Dong … Yang CongTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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  23. 2024
    Dynamic Replay Training for Class-Incremental LearningYan Yang, Dongdong Ren, Chenglei Peng … Yang GaoICASSP · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  24. 2023
    Grassmann Graph Embedding for Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Zhen CuiSpringer LNCS · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  25. 2023
    Few Shot Class Incremental Learning via Grassmann Manifold and Information EntropyZiqi Gu, Zihan Lu, Han Cao, Chunyan XuElectronics · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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  26. 2023
    Few-shot Continual Infomax LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Jian Yang, Zhen CuiICCV · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  27. 2022
    Online Attentive Kernel-Based Temporal Difference LearningXingguo Chen, Guang Yang, Shangdong Yang … Yang GaoKnowledge-Based Systems · Beijing Technology and Business University · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +3
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  28. 2023
    Boosting separated softmax with discrimination for class incremental learningLei Shi, Kai Zhao, Zhenyong FuJournal of Visual Communication and Image Representation · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  29. 2023
    Max-margin class incremental learning with mixup augmentationD Ye, Ke Xu, Chunyan Xu, Zhen CuiFourteenth International Conference on Graphics and Image… · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Systems Engineering Society of China
  30. 2022
    Spatial–Temporal Federated Learning for Lifelong Person Re-Identification on Distributed EdgesLei Zhang, Guanyu Gao, Huaizheng ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University
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  31. 2023
    InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud RepresentationJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Ender KonukoğluTNNLS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  32. 2022
    A Federated Incremental Learning Algorithm Based on Dual Attention MechanismKai Hu, Meixia Lu, Yaogen Li … Yi YangApplied Sciences · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  33. 2022
    Fine-Grained Recognition with Incremental ClassesYang-Zhun Zhou2022 5th International Conference on Artificial Intellige… · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  34. 2022
    Continual learning via region-aware memoryKai Zhao, Zhenyong Fu, Jian YangApplied Intelligence · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  35. 2023
    Cost-Effective Incremental Deep Model: Matching Model Capacity With the Least SamplingYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Southeast University · +2
  36. 2021
    Learning to Classify With Incremental New ClassDa-Wei Zhou, Yang Yang, De-Chuan ZhanTNNLS · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  37. 2020
    S2OSC: A Holistic Semi-Supervised Approach for Open Set ClassificationYang Yang, Hongchen Wei, Zhenqiang Sun … Jian YangACM Transactions · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +3
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  38. 2021
    Image De-raining via Continual LearningMan Zhou, Jie Xiao, Yifan Chang … Zheng-Jun ZhaCVPR · University of Science and Technology of China · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  39. 2020
    Learning Adaptive Embedding Considering Incremental ClassYang Yang, Zhen-Qiang Sun, Hengshu Zhu … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +4
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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. 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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