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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
    Continual-NExT: A Unified Comprehension And Generation Continual Learning FrameworkJingyang Qiao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XiearXiv
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  2. 2025
    Domain-Incremental Learning Paradigm for scene understanding via Pseudo-Replay GenerationZhifeng Xie, Rui Qiu, Qile He … Xin TanGraphical Models · Shanghai University · East China Normal University
  3. 2025
    T2S: Tokenized Skill Scaling for Lifelong Imitation LearningHongquan Zhang, Gong, Jingyu, Z Y Zhang … Yuan XiearXiv
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  4. 2025
    One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly DetectionXiaofan Li, Xin Tan, Zhuo Chen … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +2
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  5. 2025
    Bias to Balance: New-Knowledge-Preferred Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Transition CalibrationHongquan Zhang, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieTNNLS · East China Normal University · Xiamen University
  6. 2025
    Efficient Prototypical Classifier for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Jingyang Qiao, Yuan Xie … Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
  7. 2025
    Prototype Alignment with LoRA Fusion for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
  8. 2025
    Large Continual Instruction AssistantJingyang Qiao, Zhang, Zhizhong, Xin Tan … Yuan XieICML
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  9. 2024
    Learning Task-Aware Language-Image Representation for Class-Incremental Object DetectionHongquan Zhang, Bin-Bin Gao, Yi Zeng … Yuan XieAAAI · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
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  10. 2024
    Isolation and Integration: A Strong Pre-trained Model-Based Paradigm for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin TanSpringer LNCS · East China Normal University
  11. 2024
    Self-supervised Contrastive Feature Refinement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShengjin Ma, Wang Yuan, Yiting Wang … Lizhuang MaSpringer LNCS · East China Normal University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  12. 2024
    Prompt Gradient Projection for Continual LearningJingyang Qiao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieICLR
  13. 2023
    Instance and Category Supervision are Alternate Learners for Continual LearningXudong Tian, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieICCV · Chongqing Normal University · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Computer Software Testing and Evaluating · +3
  14. 2023
    Rethinking Gradient Projection Continual Learning: Stability/Plasticity Feature Space DecouplingZhen Zhao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Lizhuang MaCVPR · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
  15. 2023
    Multi-Centroid Task Descriptor for Dynamic Class Incremental InferenceTenghao Cai, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +1
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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