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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
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Trento · +5
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  2. 2026
    Learning From Each Other: Generalized Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +5
  3. 2026
    IAP: Improving Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Instance-Aware PromptingHao Fu, Hanbin Zhao, Jiahua Dong … Hui QianTIP · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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  4. 2026
    CRISP: Contrastive Residual Injection and Semantic Prompting for Continual Video Instance SegmentationBaichen Liu, Qi Lyu, Xudong Wang … Zhi HanTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  5. 2026
    Bring Your Dreams to Life: Continual Text-to-Video CustomizationJiahua Dong, Xudong Wang, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanAAAI
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  6. 2025
    Hierarchical Visual Prompt Learning for Continual Video Instance SegmentationJiahua Dong, Hui Yin, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanICCV · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Hunan University · +3
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  7. 2025
    Rehearsal-free Federated Domain-incremental LearningRui Sun, Haoran Duan, Jiahua Dong … Rajiv RanjanIEEE 45th International Conference on Distributed Computi… · Newcastle University · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  8. 2025
    Enhancing Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with BranchLoRADuzhen Zhang, Yongcheng Ren, Zhongzhi Li … Bai, JinfengACL
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  9. 2025
    PECTP: Parameter-Efficient Cross-Task Prompts for Incremental Vision TransformerQian Feng, Hanbin Zhao, Chao Zhang … Hui QianIEEE TCSVT · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University · +2
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  10. 2025
    MuseumMaker: Continual Style Customization Without Catastrophic ForgettingChanglan Liu, Gan Sun, Wenqi Liang … Yang CongTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  11. 2025
    Exploring Stability-Plasticity Trade-Offs for Continual Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Chenxing Li, Jiahua Dong … Dong YuIEEE Transactions · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tencent (China) · +3
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  12. 2024
    How to Continually Adapt Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Flexible Customization?Jiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanNeurIPS
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  13. 2024
    Create Your World: Lifelong Text-to-Image DiffusionGan Sun, Wenqi Liang, Jiahua Dong … Yang CongTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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  14. 2023
    Gradient-Semantic Compensation for Incremental Semantic SegmentationWei Wei Cong, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Henghui DingIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  15. 2024
    No One Left Behind: Real-World Federated Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Hongliu Li, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  16. 2023
    Continual Named Entity Recognition without Catastrophic ForgettingDuzhen Zhang, Cong Wei, Jiahua Dong … Zhen FangEMNLP
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  17. 2023
    Task Relation Distillation and Prototypical Pseudo Label for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Hongliu Li, Wei Wei Cong … Xiuyi ChenCIKM · Baidu (China) · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +3
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  18. 2023
    Heterogeneous Forgetting Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong, Gan SunICCV · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  19. 2023
    I3DOD: Towards Incremental 3D Object Detection via PromptingWenqi Liang, Gan Sun, Chenxi Liu … Kangru WangIROS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  20. 2023
    Topology-Aware Graph Convolution Network for Few-Shot Incremental 3-D Object LearningBingtao Ma, Yang Cong, Jiahua DongIEEE Transactions · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  21. 2023
    Self-Paced Weight Consolidation for Continual LearningWei Wei Cong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Jiahua DongIEEE TCSVT · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  22. 2023
    Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Duzhen Zhang, Yang Cong … Dengxin DaiCVPR · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  23. 2023
    InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud RepresentationJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Ender KonukoğluTNNLS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  24. 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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  25. 2021
    Continuous Multi-View Human Action RecognitionQiang Wang, Gan Sun, Jiahua Dong … Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Shenyang University · +3
  26. 2021
    Lifelong robotic visual-tactile perception learningJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Tao ZhangPattern Recognition · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  27. 2021
    I3DOL: Incremental 3D Object Learning without Catastrophic ForgettingJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Lichen WangAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  28. 2022
    What and How: Generalized Lifelong Spectral Clustering via Dual MemoryGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Haibin YuTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  29. 2021
    L3DOC: Lifelong 3D Object ClassificationYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Hongsen LiuTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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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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