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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning and InferenceNiels Leadholm, Viviane Clay, Scott G. Knudstrup … Jeff HawkinsNeural Computation
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    Recovering Plasticity of Neural Networks via Soft Weight RescalingSeungwon Oh, Sangyeon Park, Isaac Han, Kyung-Joong KimarXiv
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    Addressing The Devastating Effects Of Single-Task Data Poisoning In Exemplar-Free Continual LearningStanisław Pawlak, Bartłomiej Twardowski, T. P. Trzcinski, Joost van de WeijerarXiv · Warsaw University of Technology · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · +1
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    MemOS: A Memory OS for AI SystemZhiyu Li, Chunyan Xi, Chunyu Li … Feiyu XiongarXiv
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    Continual Gradient Low-Rank Projection Fine-Tuning for LLMsChenxu Wang, Yilin Lyu, Zicheng Sun, Liping JingACL
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    Adapt & Align: Continual Learning with Generative Models Latent Space AlignmentKamil Rafał Deja, Bartosz Cywiński, Jan Rybarczyk, T. P. TrzcinskiNeurocomputing · Warsaw University of Technology · IDEA of Development Foundation · +1
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    NIRANTAR: Continual Learning with New Languages and Domains on Real-world Speech DataTahir Javed, Kaushal Bhogale, Mitesh M. KhapraInterspeech
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    Confounder-Free Continual Learning via Recursive Feature NormalizationYash Shah, Camila González, Mohammad Abbasi … E. AdeliICML
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    Where’s That Voice Coming? Continual Learning for Sound Source LocalizationYang Xiao, Rohan Kumar DasIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
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    SPARC: Subspace-Aware Prompt Adaptation for Robust Continual Learning in LLMsDinithi Jayasuriya, Sina Tayebati, Davide Ettori … Amit Ranjan TrivediIJCNN · University of Illinois Chicago · Intel (United States)
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    Ella: Embodied Social Agents with Lifelong MemoryHongxin Zhang, Zheyuan Zhang, Zeyuan Wang … Chuang GanarXiv
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    Evaluating Temporal Plasticity in Foundation Time Series Models for Incremental Fine-TuningJia Jia Liu, Cheng Jinguo, Fang Xia … Yuankai WuIJCNN · Sichuan University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
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    Remembering Transformer for Continual LearningYuwei Sun, Ippei Fujisawa, Arthur Juliani … Ryota KanaiIJCNN · Konya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi · Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) · +1
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    TinyCL: An Efficient Hardware Architecture for Continual Learning on Autonomous SystemsEugenio Ressa, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina … Muhammad ShafiqueIJCNN · Politecnico di Torino · New York University Abu Dhabi
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    CLIP-driven Few-Shot Continual LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Zhen CuiIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beijing Normal University
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    Decoupling Overlapped Feature Spaces: When Continual Learning Meets Fine-Grain ClassificationZhikun Feng, Mingyu Wu, Ping Kuang … Yu LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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    A Novel Forgetting Mitigation Approach for YOLOv7-Enabled Incremental Object DetectionQing Wang, Fang Liu, Jiawei Yue … Xiangbin ShiIJCNN · Shenyang Aerospace University · Shenyang Institute of Engineering
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    Bias Mitigation in Federated Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Multi-Prototype CollaborationShijie Xu, Huaijun Qiu, Zhuo Yan, Cuiwei LiuIJCNN · Shenyang Aerospace University
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    CASA: Class-Agnostic Shared Attributes in Vision-Language Models for Efficient Incremental Object DetectionMingyi Guo, Yuyang Liu, Zhiyuan Yan … Yonghong TianIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Peking University
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    Enhancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Cross-Modal Bias AlignmentD. Wang, Zhiming Chen, Xiang Qiu … Bingzhi ChenIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Beijing Institute of Technology · Zhuhai Institute of Advanced Technology · +2
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    Exploring Flexibility in Incremental Few-Shot Object DetectionDongdong Gong, Tengfei Gong, Yaxiong Chen … Shengwu XiongIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
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    FedPTR: Enhancing Federated Prompt Learning with Server-Side Retraining for Non-IID DataYufeng Chen, Min Liu, Sheng Sun, Zhongcheng LiIJCNN · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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    GenCNER: A Generative Framework for Continual Named Entity RecognitionYawen Yang, Fukun Ma, Shiao Meng … Lijie WenIJCNN · Tsinghua University
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    GeNGuide: Generalized Neighbour Guidance Framework for Noisy Class Incremental LearningAvnish Kumar, Jayateja Kalla, Soma BiswasIJCNN · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
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    GLRB: Heterogeneous Federated Continual Learning via Global and Local RebalanceHaodong Zhang, Yang Liu, Zihan JiangIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Tianjin University
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    Incremental Tucker Decomposition for Scalable and Efficient Multilingual Speech RecognitionGuanghui Song, Ye Hong, Xitong Gao … Kejiang YeIJCNN · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
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    Leveraging Multiple Deep Experts for Online Class-incremental LearningZhe Tao, Lu Yu, Hantao Yao, Changsheng XuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
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    Mitigating Knowledge Forgetting by Generative Knowledge Replay and Forgetting-aware Aggregation in Semi-Supervised Federated LearningHongquan Liu, Yixin Ren, Jihong Guan, Shuigeng ZhouIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Fudan University · Tongji University
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    Multi-view Continual Learning with Scarce AnnotationJin Yuan, Sheng WuIJCNN · Changsha University of Science and Technology
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    On Sequential Maximum a Posteriori Inference for Continual LearningMenghao Waiyan William Zhu, Erçan E. KuruoğluIJCNN · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute
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    ReFEdit: Rehearsal-Free Lifelong Knowledge Editing for Large Language ModelsXianjie Mo, Youcheng Pan, Yongshuai Hou … Yang XiangIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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    Representative-exploring Replay for Online Class-Incremental Continual LearningLibang Zhao, Alysa Ziying Tan, Siwei Feng … Mengyuan SongIJCNN · Soochow University · Nanyang Technological University
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    RKU: Relevant Knowledge-aware Unlearning for Federated Continual LearningHaodong Zhang, Liu Yang, Zihan JiangIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Tianjin University
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    Tactile-Visual Class-Continual Learning via Temporal Attention InteractionLina Wei, Yan Ma, Zhongsheng Lin … Fangfang WangIJCNN · Hangzhou City University · City University of Macau · +1
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    Interleaved Replay of Novel and Familiar Memory Traces During Slow-Wave Sleep Prevents Catastrophic ForgettingRyan Golden, Rajat Saxena, Oscar C. González … Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of California San Diego · University of California, Irvine · +2
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    A Survey of Continual Reinforcement LearningChaofan Pan, Xin Yang, Yanhua Li … Jiye LiangarXiv
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    DuET: Dual Incremental Object Detection via Exemplar-Free Task ArithmeticMunish Monga, Vishal M. Chudasama, P. Wasnik, Biplab BanerjeeICCV
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    Lifelong Active Inference of Gait ControlRudolf J. Szadkowski, J. FaiglTNNLS
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    Sparse-FCL: Sparse Federated Continual Learning for Evolving Mobile Edge Computing EnvironmentsYan Liu, Feiyang Liu, Bin Guo … Zhiwen YuIEEE Transactions · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Harbin Engineering University
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    Separable and Flexible Classification on Pseudo-Features for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYuancheng Yang, Luyang Jin, Shuai Zhang, Chao Tong2025 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Beihang University
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    UCL-MHTR: A unified continual learning system for multilingual handwritten text recognitionMarwa Dhiaf, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Yousri Kessentini … Ahmed Cheikh RouhouExpert Systems with Applications · National Sanitation Utility · Digital Research Centre of Sfax · +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. It lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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