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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
    A Visual Dependence-Aware Framework for Multimodal Unsupervised Continual Post-TrainingKaichen Li, Zhilin Zhu, Jianhao Huang … Changsheng XuarXiv
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  2. 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
  3. 2025
    Overcoming Dual Drift for Continual Long-Tailed Visual Question AnsweringFeifei Zhang, Zhihao Wang, Xi Zhang, Changsheng XuICCV · Tianjin University of Technology · Alibaba Group (United States) · +1
  4. 2025
    Class-Specific Knowledge-Guided Multimodal Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFangying Xiong, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu, Changsheng XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  5. 2025
    Leveraging Multiple Deep Experts for Online Class-incremental LearningZhe Tao, Lu Yu, Hantao Yao, Changsheng XuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
  6. 2025
    Pseudo Informative Episode Construction for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningChaofan Chen, Xiaoshan Yang, Changsheng XuAAAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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  7. 2025
    Learning Temporal Event Knowledge for Continual Social Event ClassificationShengsheng Qian, Shengjie Zhang, Dizhan Xue … Changsheng XuTKDE · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  8. 2025
    Dual Uncertainty-Aware Correspondence Adapting and Retaining for Continual Composed Image RetrievalHaoliang Zhou, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng XuTIP · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  9. 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
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  11. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning for Light-Weighted NetworksZhe Tao, Lu Yu, Hantao Yao … Changsheng XuIEEE TCSVT · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  12. 2024
    Hierarchical Augmentation and Distillation for Class Incremental Audio-Visual Video RecognitionYukun Zuo, Hantao Yao, Liansheng Zhuang, Changsheng XuTPAMI · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  13. 2024
    Hierarchical Prompts for Rehearsal-free Continual LearningYukun Zuo, Hantao Yao, Yu Lu … Changsheng XuarXiv
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  14. 2024
    Spatiotemporal Orthogonal Projection Capsule Network for Incremental Few-Shot Action RecognitionYangbo Feng, Junyu Gao, Changsheng XuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
  15. 2024
    Camera-Incremental Object Re-Identification With Identity Knowledge EvolutionHantao Yao, Jifei Luo, Lu Yu, Changsheng XuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
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  16. 2024
    Few-shot Incremental Learning with Textual Knowledge Embedding by Visual-language ModelHantao Yao, Lu Yu, Changsheng XuInternational Journal of Software and Informatics
  17. 2023
    C2MR: Continual Cross-Modal Retrieval for Streaming Multi-modal DataHuaiwen Zhang, Yang Yang, Fan Qi … Changsheng XuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Inner Mongolia University · Tianjin University of Technology · +2
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  18. 2023
    VQACL: A Novel Visual Question Answering Continual Learning SettingXi Zhang, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng XuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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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