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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
  2. 2026
    Parameter Merging with Gradient-Guided Supermasks in Online Continual LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiAAAI
  3. 2026
    Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry PreservationChi-Yuan He, Zi-Huan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hongliang LiIEEE TCSVT
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  4. 2026
    Group-Merger: A LoRA-based Framework for Multilingual Continual LearningWeijian Yi, Hongliang Li, Jinan XuWorkshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language…
  5. 2025PDF ↗
  6. 2025
    D3Net: Dual-Path Decoupling-Distillation for Adaptive Fusion in Continual Egocentric LearningChenghao Qi, Heqian Qiu, Zhaofeng Shi … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
  7. 2025
    DBAB: A Dual-Branch Adaptive Balance Framework with Optimized Plasticity Branch for Class-Incremental LearningXinyu Chen, Heqian Qiu, Chenghao Qi … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
  8. 2025
    OrthCal: Synergizing Orthogonal Contrastive Learning and Prototype Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningRuisong Dai, Han-Wen Zhang, Xinyu Chen … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing
  9. 2025
    R^2MoE: Redundancy-Removal Mixture of Experts for Lifelong Concept LearningXiaohan Guo, Yusong Cai, Ze-Jia Liu … Hongliang LiarXiv
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  10. 2025
    Enhancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Frozen Feature AugmentationShimou Ling, Shengkai Gan, Caoxin Wang … Hongliang LiCVPR
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  12. 2025
    LoRA-Based Continual Learning with Constraints on Critical Parameter ChangesShimou Ling, Liang Zhang, Jiangwei Zhao … Hongliang LiPattern Recognition
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  13. 2025
    Geodesic-Aligned Gradient Projection for Continual Task LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Haitao Wen … Hongliang LiTIP
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  15. 2025
    DesCLIP: Robust Continual Learning via General Attribute Descriptions for VLM-Based Visual RecognitionChi-Yuan He, Zi-Huan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  16. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning With Less Forgetting Direction and Equilibrium PointHaitao Wen, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiIEEE TCSVT
  17. 2025
    Adaptively forget with crossmodal and textual distillation for class-incremental video captioningHuiyu Xiong, Lanxiao Wang, Heqian Qiu … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing
  18. 2025
    Multi-Stage LLM Fine-Tuning with a Continual Learning SettingChanghao Guan, Chao Huang, Hongliang Li … Jian LiuNAACL
  19. 2024
    Video Class-Incremental Learning With Clip Based TransformerShuyun Lu, Jian Jiao, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiInternational Conference on Information Photonics
  20. 2024
  21. 2024
    Distribution-Level Memory Recall for Continual Learning: Preserving Knowledge and Avoiding ConfusionShaoxu Cheng, Kanglei Geng, Chi-Yuan He … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  22. 2024
  23. 2024
    Must Unsupervised Continual Learning Relies on Previous Information?Haoyang Cheng, Haitao Wen, Heqian Qiu … Hongliang LiCVPR
  24. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Multi-Teacher DistillationHaitao Wen, Li-Li Pan, Yu Dai … Hongliang LiCVPR
  25. 2024
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  28. 2024
    InfoUCL: Learning Informative Representations for Unsupervised Continual LearningLiang Zhang, Jiangwei Zhao, Qingbo Wu … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  29. 2023
  30. 2023
  31. 2023
  32. 2023
    GFR: Generic feature representations for class incremental learningZhi-Chuan Wang, Linfeng Xu, Zi-Huan Qiu … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing
  33. 2023
    Optimizing Mode Connectivity for Class Incremental LearningHaitao Wen, Haoyang Cheng, Heqian Qiu … Hongliang LiICML
  34. 2023
    Where to Forget: A New Attention Stability Metric for Continual Learning EvaluationHaojie Wang, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li, Fanman MengInternational Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia…
  35. 2023
  36. 2022
    ISM-Net: Mining incremental semantics for class incremental learningZihuan Qiu, Linfeng Xu, Zhichuan Wang … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  37. 2021
    Remember and Reuse: Cross-Task Blind Image Quality Assessment via Relevance-aware Incremental LearningRui Ma, Hanxiao Luo, Qingbo Wu … Linfeng XuACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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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