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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
    Self-adaptive Low-Rank Adaptation for Class-Incremental LearningYiming Song, Qiqi Duan, Lijun Sun … Yuhui ShiSpringer LNCS · Southern University of Science and Technology · Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics · +3
  2. 2026
    Generalized Incremental Learning under Concept Drift across Evolving Data StreamsEn Yu, Jie Lü, Guangquan ZhangWWW · University of Technology Sydney
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  3. 2026
    PIC-CMH: Efficient Prompt-Infused Continual Cross-Modal HashingFengling Li, Wenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang … Xiaojun ChangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Technology Sydney · Shandong Normal University · +1
  4. 2025
    Prompt-Driven Bit Extension Hashing for Continual Cross-Modal RetrievalWenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li … Lei ZhuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong Normal University · Tongji University · +2
  5. 2025
    EBaR: Efficient Buffer and Resetting for Single-Sample Continual Test-Time AdaptationTianyi Ma, Maoying QiaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Technology Sydney
  6. 2025
    Unleashing the Power of Continual Learning on Non-Centralized Devices: A SurveyYichen Li, Haozhao Wang, Wenchao Xu … Ruixuan LiIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +5
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  7. 2025
    Fast Partial-Modal Online Cross-Modal HashingFengling Li, Yang Sun, Tianshi Wang … Xiaojun ChangTIP · University of Technology Sydney · Shandong Normal University · +1
  8. 2025
    Plug-In Open-Set Cross-Modal HashingBowen Wang, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li … Jingjing LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Tongji University · University of Technology Sydney · +3
  9. 2024
    Canonical Shape Projection Is All You Need for 3D Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningAli Cheraghian, Zeeshan Hayder, Sameera Ramasinghe … Mehrtash HarandiECCV · Australian National University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +6
  10. 2024
    Prompt-Based Memory Bank for Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation in Vision-Language ModelsRan Wang, Hua Zuo, Zhen Fang, Jie LüIJCNN · University of Technology Sydney
  11. 2024
    Continual Learning for Temporal-Sensitive Question AnsweringWanqi Yang, Yunqiu Xu, Yanda Li … Ling ChenIJCNN · University of Technology Sydney · The University of Sydney · +1
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  12. 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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  13. 2023
    Trust-Region Adaptive Frequency for Online Continual LearningYajing Kong, Liu Liu, Maoying Qiao … Dacheng TaoIJCV · The University of Sydney · University of Technology Sydney
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  14. 2023
    Uncertainty Estimation With Neural Processes for Meta-Continual LearningXuesong Wang, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang … Sen WangTNNLS · University of Technology Sydney · UNSW Sydney · +4
  15. 2022
    Continual Learning through Retrieval and ImaginationZhen Wang, Liu Liu, Yiqun Duan, Dacheng TaoAAAI · The University of Sydney · University of Technology Sydney
  16. 2022
    Federated Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Lixu Wang, Zhen Fang … Qi ZhuCVPR · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  17. 2022
    Continual Learning with Lifelong Vision TransformerZhen Wang, Liu Liu, Yiqun Duan … Dacheng TaoCVPR · The University of Sydney · University of Technology Sydney · +1
  18. 2021
    One-Shot Neural Architecture Search: Maximising Diversity to Overcome Catastrophic ForgettingMiao Zhang, Huiqi Li, Shirui Pan … Steven W. SuTPAMI · Beijing Institute of Technology · Monash University · +2
  19. 2020
    An integrated classification model for incremental learningJi Hu, Chenggang Yan, Xin Liu … Yi YangMultimedia Tools and Applications · Hangzhou Dianzi University · University of Technology Sydney
  20. 2020
    Overcoming Multi-Model Forgetting in One-Shot NAS With Diversity MaximizationMiao Zhang, Huiqi Li, Shirui Pan … Steven W. SuCVPR · University of Technology Sydney · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  21. 2021
    Novelty Detection and Online Learning for Chunk Data StreamsYi Wang, Yi Ding, Xiangjian He … Jiebo LuoTPAMI · Dalian University of Technology · University of Technology Sydney · +2
  22. 2020
    Online Topology Learning by a Gaussian Membership-Based Self-Organizing Incremental Neural NetworkHang Yu, Jie Lü, Guangquan ZhangTNNLS · University of Technology Sydney
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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