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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. 2025
    Prompt-Driven Bit Extension Hashing for Continual Cross-Modal RetrievalWenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li … Lei ZhuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong Normal University · Tongji University · +2
  2. 2025
    Adaptive Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Qin Chen … Liang HeIEEE TCSVT · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +2
  3. 2025
    Learn by Reasoning: Analogical Weight Generation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJizhou Han, Chenhao Ding, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Shenzhen University · +2
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  4. 2025
    Rethinking Obscured Sub-Optimality in Analytic Learning for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningZijian Gao, Kele Xu, Xingxing Zhang … Huaimin WangIEEE TCSVT · National University of Defense Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
  5. 2025
    Bridging Inter-Task Gap of Continual Self-Supervised Learning With External DataHaori Lu, Xusheng Cao, Linlan Huang … Xialei LiuIEEE TCSVT · Nankai University
  6. 2025
    Controllable Relation Disentanglement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYuan Zhou, Richang Hong, Yanrong Guo … Hanwang ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Nanyang Technological University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  7. 2025
    Class-Specific Knowledge-Guided Multimodal Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFangying Xiong, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu, Changsheng XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  8. 2025
    CSTA: Spatial-Temporal Causal Adaptive Learning for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental LearningTieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Chern Hong Lim … Weiyao LinIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Monash University Malaysia · +4
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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
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Asymmetric Supervised Contrastive LearningDuo Liu, Linglan Zhao, Zhongqiang Zhang … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent (China) · +4
  11. 2025
    Class-Aware Prompting for Federated Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFang-Yi Liang, Yu-Wei Zhan, Jiale Liu … Xin-Shun XuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong University · Tsinghua University
  12. 2025
    Achieving Plasticity-Stability Trade-Off in Continual Learning Through Adaptive Orthogonal ProjectionDe Cheng, Yusong Hu, Nannan Wang … Xinbo GaoIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications · +2
  13. 2025
    Joint Memory Optimization for Continual LearningZhiheng Ma, Yaohui Ma, Xiaopeng Hong … Shizhou ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +2
  14. 2025
    Contrastive Augmented Graph2Graph Memory Interaction for Few Shot Continual LearningBiqing Qi, Junqi Gao, Xinquan Chen … Bowen ZhouIEEE TCSVT · Tsinghua University · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  15. 2025
    Prompt-Based Concept Learning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShuo Li, Fang Liu, Licheng Jiao … Wenping MaIEEE TCSVT · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Xidian 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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