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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
    Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry PreservationChi-Yuan He, Zi-Huan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hongliang LiIEEE TCSVT
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  5. 2025
    Geodesic-Aligned Gradient Projection for Continual Task LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Haitao Wen … Hongliang LiTIP
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  7. 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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  8. 2024
  9. 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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  10. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Multi-Teacher DistillationHaitao Wen, Li-Li Pan, Yu Dai … Hongliang LiCVPR
  11. 2024
  12. 2024
    InfoUCL: Learning Informative Representations for Unsupervised Continual LearningLiang Zhang, Jiangwei Zhao, Qingbo Wu … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  13. 2023
  14. 2023
  15. 2023
    GFR: Generic feature representations for class incremental learningZhi-Chuan Wang, Linfeng Xu, Zi-Huan Qiu … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing
  16. 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…
  17. 2023
  18. 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
  19. 2022
    ICFD: An Incremental Learning Method Based on Data Feature DistributionYunzhe Zhu, Yusong Tan, Xiaoling Li … Xueqin NingIEEE Smartworld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing,… · National University of Defense Technology
  20. 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
  21. 2018
    Incremental Learning of Single-stage Detectors with Mining Memory NeuronsWei Li, Qingbo Wu, Linfeng Xu, Chao ShangIEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communi… · 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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