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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. 2025
    Analytic Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Multi-Modality CorruptionYufei Zhang, Yicheng Xu, Hongxin Wei … Huiping ZhuangACM International Conference on Multimedia · South China University of Technology · Institute of Science Tokyo · +2
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  2. 2025
    Learning New Concepts, Remembering the Old: Continual Learning for Multimodal Concept Bottleneck ModelsSongning Lai, Mingqian Liao, Zhangyi Hu … Yutao YueACM International Conference on Multimedia · Qingdao Center of Resource Chemistry and New Materials · University of Hong Kong · +3
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  3. 2025
    TongGu-VL: Advancing Visual-Language Understanding in Chinese Classical Studies through Parameter Sensitivity-Guided Instruction TuningJiahuan Cao, Yang Liu, Peirong Zhang … Lianwen JinACM International Conference on Multimedia · South China University of Technology · Shanghai Medical Information Center
  4. 2025
    Analytic Synaptic Dynamic Scaling Balancer for Multimodal Deepfake Continual DetectionMan Xiao, Jianbin Ye, Bo Liu … Xiaodong WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · National University of Defense Technology · Academy of Military Medical Sciences
  5. 2025
    CFSSeg: Closed-Form Solution for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation of 2D Images and 3D Point CloudsJia Xu Li, Rui Li, Jianyu Qi … Huiping ZhuangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Central South University · Zhengzhou University · +4
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  6. 2025
    Forward-Only Continual LearningJiao Chen, Jiayi He, Fangfang Chen … Jianhua TangACM International Conference on Multimedia · South China University of Technology
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 2025
    Imagining Vision From Language for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShuo Li, Xingchen Liu, Fang Liu … Xuejian GouACM International Conference on Multimedia · Xidian University
  10. 2025
    Online Continual Learning via Dynamic Expandable Recursive ModelFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +1
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  11. 2025
    PET-GPRA: Rethinking PET with Gradient-Aware Prompting and Router-Free Adapters for Few-shot Class-Incremental LearningYishu Liu, Zhiming Chen, D. Wang … Guangming LuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Harbin Institute of Technology · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  12. 2025
    Towards Effective Open-set Graph Class-incremental LearningJiazhen Chen, Zheng Ma, Sichao Fu … Weihua OuACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Waterloo · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +1
  13. 2025
    Boosting Multi-Modal Alignment: Geometric Feature Separation for Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Chuan Qin, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  14. 2025
    EBaR: Efficient Buffer and Resetting for Single-Sample Continual Test-Time AdaptationTianyi Ma, Maoying QiaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Technology Sydney
  15. 2025
    Exploring Multimodal Prompts For Unsupervised Continuous Anomaly DetectionMingle Zhou, Jiahui Liu, Jin Wan … Min LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Qilu University of Technology · Shandong Academy of Sciences
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  16. 2025
    Probabilistic Mixture of Hyperbolic Mamba for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYawen Cui, Wenbin Zou, Huiping Zhuang … Lap‐Pui ChauACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · South China University of Technology
  17. 2025
    Retaining Temporal Semantics and Relation Topologies for Continual Weakly-Supervised Audio-Visual Video ParsingJie Fu, Bing‐Kun BaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  18. 2025
    SDP: Spectral-Decomposed Prompting for Continual LearningSiqi Song, Limin Yu, Jimin XiaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool 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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