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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
    Better Matching, Less Forgetting: A Quality-Guided Matcher for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Peng WangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Medrobotics (United States)
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  2. 2023
    Teacher Agent: A Knowledge Distillation-Free Framework for Rehearsal-Based Video Incremental LearningShengqin Jiang, Yaoyu Fang, Haokui Zhang … Peng WangIJCV · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +3
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  3. 2026
    Continual Low-Rank Adaptation Via Cumulative Unified Optimization.Yue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  4. 2026
    VPT-NSP2++: Importance-Aware Visual Prompt Tuning in Null Space for Continual LearningShizhou Zhang, Yue Lu, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  5. 2025
    Gradient Decomposition and Alignment for Incremental Object DetectionWenlong Luo, Xicheng Zhang, De Cheng … Y ZhangICCV · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  6. 2025
    CoLeCLIP: Open-Domain Continual Learning via Joint Task Prompt and Vocabulary LearningYukun Li, Guansong Pang, Wei Suo … Peng WangTNNLS · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Singapore Management University · +2
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  7. 2025
    Enhancing Feature Learning With Hard Samples in Mutual Learning for Online Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Shibin Su, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  8. 2024
    Sustainable Self-evolution Adversarial TrainingWenxuan Wang, Chenglei Wang, Huihui Qi … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University
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  9. 2023
    Optimal Policy Replay: A Simple Method to Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Incremental Visual NavigationXinting Li, Shizhou Zhang, Yue Lu … Yanning ZhangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Northwestern Polytechnical 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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