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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Bi-Compatible Task-Agnostic Feature Augmentation for Expansion-Based Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Zijun Shen, Da-Wei Zhou … De‐Chuan ZhanIJCV · Nanjing University
  2. 2026
    CRAM: Centroid-Routing and Adaptive MoE for Multimodal Continual Instruction TuningJun-Tao Tang, Zhen-Hao Xie, Yu-Cheng Shi, Da-Wei ZhouarXiv
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  4. 2026
    Stable Routing for Mixture-of-Experts in Class-Incremental LearningZirui Guo, Quan Cheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Lijun ZhangarXiv
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  7. 2026
    Cross-Sample Relational Fusion: Unifying Domain Generalization and Class-Incremental LearningZhenghe Xie, Yan Wang, Hao Sun … Da-Wei ZhouIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  8. 2026
    BOFA: Bridge-Layer Orthogonal Low-Rank Fusion for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental LearningLan Li, Tao Hu, Da-Wei Zhou … De-Chuan ZhanAAAI · Nanjing University
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  9. 2026
    SAME: Stabilized Mixture-of-Experts for Multimodal Continual Instruction TuningZhen-Hao Xie, Jun-Tao Tang, Yu-Cheng Shi … Da-Wei ZhouICML
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  13. 2025
    Task-Agnostic Guided Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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  14. 2025
    Learning Without Forgetting for Vision-Language ModelsDa-Wei Zhou, Yuanhan Zhang, Yan Wang … Ziwei LiuTPAMI · Nanjing University · Nanyang Technological University
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  15. 2025
    Adaptive adapter routing for long-tailed class-incremental learningZhihong Qi, Da-Wei Zhou, Yiran Yao … De-Chuan ZhanMachine Learning · Nanjing Xiaozhuang University
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  16. 2025
    MOS: Model Surgery for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningHai-Long Sun, Da-Wei Zhou, Hanbin Zhao … Han-Jia YeAAAI
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  17. 2025
    Revisiting Class-Incremental Learning with Pre-Trained Models: Generalizability and Adaptivity are All You NeedDa-Wei Zhou, Zi-Wen Cai, Han-Jia Ye … Ziwei LiuIJCV · Nanjing University · Nanyang Technological University
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  18. 2024
    Class-Incremental Learning: A SurveyDa-Wei Zhou, Qiwei Wang, Zhihong Qi … Ziwei LiuTPAMI · Nanyang Technological University · Nanjing University
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  19. 2024
    Expandable Subspace Ensemble for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Hailong Sun, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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  20. 2024
    Multi-layer Rehearsal Feature Augmentation for Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De-Chuan ZhanICML
  21. 2023
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Training-Free Prototype CalibrationQiwei Wang, Da-Wei Zhou, Yikai Zhang … Han-Jia YeNeurIPS
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  22. 2023
    Preserving Locality in Vision Transformers for Class Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Nanjing University
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  23. 2023
    PyCIL: a Python toolbox for class-incremental learningDa-Wei Zhou, Fuyun Wang, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanInformation Sciences · Nanjing University
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  24. 2023
    Deep Class-Incremental Learning: A SurveyDa-Wei Zhou, Qiwen Wang, Zhi-Hong Qi … Ziwei LiuarXiv
  25. 2023
  26. 2023
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning by Sampling Multi-Phase TasksDa-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, Liang Ma … De-Chuan ZhanTPAMI · Nanjing University
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  27. 2022
    Forward Compatible Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Fuyun Wang, Han-Jia Ye … De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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  28. 2023
    A Model or 603 Exemplars: Towards Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Qiwei Wang, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanICLR
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  29. 2022
    FOSTER: Feature Boosting and Compression for Class-Incremental LearningFuyun Wang, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanECCV
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  30. 2022
    Deep Learning for Class-Incremental Learning: A surveyDa-Wei Zhou, Fu Lee Wang, Han-Jia Ye, De-chuan ZhanPreprint
  31. 2021
    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
  32. 2021
    Co-Transport for Class-Incremental LearningDa-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University
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  33. 2022
    Learning to Classify With Incremental New ClassDa-Wei Zhou, Yang Yang, De-Chuan ZhanTNNLS · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  34. 2021
  35. 2019
    Adaptive Deep Models for Incremental Learning: Considering Capacity Scalability and SustainabilityYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De‐Chuan Zhan … Yuan JiangKDD · Nanjing University · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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 lists only 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. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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