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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
    G2LoRA: Gradient Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation Framework for Graph Continual Learning on Text-Attributed GraphsYuhan Wang, Yibo Ding, Yutong Ye … Jianxin LiKDD · Beihang University · Columbia University · +1
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  2. 2026
    Dynamic LoRA-Experts and Prototype-Ensemble Matching for Class-Incremental LearningHongwei Zhao, Rui Liu, Ying LiuApplied Sciences · Beihang University
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  3. 2026
    OCL-SKD: Balancing plasticity and stability in online continual learning via self-knowledge distillationZheng Liu, Zhanyang Liu, Yike Liu … Jinfeng LiuNeurocomputing · Ningxia University · Beihang University · +1
  4. 2026
    Continual Adversarial Example Detection via Incremental Attack Configuration Within a Knowledge Distillation FrameworkHeqi Peng, Yunhong Wang, Hui Miao … Yuanfang GuoIEEE Signal Processing Letters · Beihang University · University of Macau
  5. 2026
    LLKF: Lifelong Learning Kalman Filter with Noise Statistics Continual LearningAndi Lin, Wen‐An Zhang, Ling Shi, Chenlong LiIEEE Transactions · Zhejiang University of Technology · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · +1
  6. 2025
    Hyperbolic Prompt Learning for Incremental Event Detection with LLMsXiujin Zhang, Wenxin Jin, Haotian Hong … Li SunCIKM · North China Electric Power University · Anhui University of Science and Technology · +2
  7. 2025
    Cross-Domain Attribute Alignment with CLIP: A Rehearsal-Free Approach for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationKerun Mi, Guoliang Kang, Guangyu Li … Chen GongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beihang University · +1
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  9. 2025
    Incremental Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation Via Multi-Level Switchable Visual PromptsMaoxian Wan, Kaige Li, Qichuan Geng … Zhong ZhouICCV · Beihang University · Capital Normal University
  10. 2025
    Multimodal Prompt Distillation for Continual Learning: Continuous Error CorrectionJunjian Ren, Dingchi Sun, Tian Wang … Hichem SnoussiChinese Control Conference (CCC) · Beihang University · Université de Technologie de Troyes
  11. 2025
    AdaDARE-γ: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Multi-modal LLMs through Efficient AdaptationJingyi Xie, Jintao Yang, Zhunchen Luo … Wenpeng HuCVPR · Military University · Beihang University
  12. 2025
    Learning Temporal Event Knowledge for Continual Social Event ClassificationShengsheng Qian, Shengjie Zhang, Dizhan Xue … Changsheng XuTKDE · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  13. 2025
    A Continual Learning Approach for Embodied Question Answering with Generative Adversarial Imitation LearningXin Zeng, Haonan Luo, Zihang Wang … Tianrui LiICASSP · Southwest Jiaotong University · Beihang University
  14. 2025
    MKT: A Multi-Stage Knowledge Transfer Framework to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Multi-Domain Chinese Spelling CorrectionPeng Xing, Yinghui Li, Shirong Ma … Ying ShenEMNLP · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute · Beihang University · +2
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  15. 2025
    Language-Inspired Relation Transfer for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYifan Zhao, Jia Li, Zeyin Song, Yonghong TianTPAMI · Beihang University · Peking University
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  16. 2024
    Semi-Process Noise Distillation for Continual Mixture-of-Experts Diffusion ModelsJiaxiang Cheng, Yiming Liu, Bo Long … Tian WangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Beihang University · China General Nuclear Power Corporation (China)
  17. 2024
    MAGR: Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization for Continual Action Quality AssessmentKanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang … Xiaohui LiangECCV · Durham University · Beihang University · +2
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  18. 2024
    Prompting Continual Person SearchPengcheng Zhang, Xiaohan Yu, Bai Xiao … Xin NingACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beihang University · Macquarie University · +2
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  19. 2024
    NC2D: Novel Class Discovery for Node ClassificationYue Hou, X. R. Chen, He Zhu … Ke XuCIKM · Beihang University · Communication University of China
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  21. 2024
    Hessian Aware Low-Rank Perturbation for Order-Robust Continual LearningJiaqi Li, Yuanhao Lai, Rui Wang … Fan ZhouTKDE · Western University · Vector Institute · +3
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  23. 2023
    Diving into Continual Ultra-fine-grained Visual CategorizationPengcheng Zhang, Xiaohan Yu, Xiao Bai … Yongsheng GaoInternational Conference on Digital Image Computing: Tech… · State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment · Beihang University · +1
  24. 2023
    Decision Boundary Optimization for Few-shot Class-Incremental LearningChenxu Guo, Qi Zhao, Shuchang Lyu … Guangliang ChengICCV · Beihang University · University of Liverpool
  25. 2023
    SLCA: Slow Learner with Classifier Alignment for Continual Learning on a Pre-trained ModelGengwei Zhang, Liyuan Wang, Guoliang Kang … Yunchao WeiICCV · University of Technology Sydney · Tsinghua University · +2
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  26. 2024
    Online Active Continual Learning for Robotic Lifelong Object RecognitionXiangli Nie, Zhiguang Deng, Mingdong He … Zheng TangTNNLS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +5
  27. 2023
    More task-balanced Class-Incremental LearningJunzhi Chen, Tian Wang, Deyuan Liu … Hichem SoussiYouth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association o… · Beihang University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
  28. 2023
    A Continual Learning Method for Reducing Class Interference Based on ReplayZhibo Xu, Tian Wang, Jian Wang … Hichem SnoussiChinese Control Conference (CCC) · Beihang University · Wuhan University · +6
  29. 2023
    AttriCLIP: A Non-Incremental Learner for Incremental Knowledge LearningRunqi Wang, Xiaoyue Duan, Guoliang Kang … Baochang ZhangCVPR · Huawei Technologies (Sweden) · Beihang University · +1
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  31. 2023
    Unbiased and Efficient Self-Supervised Incremental Contrastive LearningCheng Ji, Jianxin Li, Hao Peng … Philip S. YuWSDM · Beihang University · Macquarie University · +1
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  32. 2022
    Revealing the real-world applicable setting of online continual learningZhenbo Xu, Hai‐Miao Hu, Liu LiuIEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Pro… · Beihang University
  33. 2021
    Continual Neural Mapping: Learning An Implicit Scene Representation from Sequential ObservationsZike Yan, Yuxin Tian, Xuesong Shi … Hongbin ZhaICCV · King University · Peking University · +1
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  34. 2021
    Knowledge-Preserving Incremental Social Event Detection via Heterogeneous GNNsYuwei Cao, Hao Peng, Jia Wu … Philip S. YuWWW · University of Illinois Chicago · Beihang University · +1
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  35. 2021
    NASIL: Neural Network Architecture Searching for Incremental Learning in Image ClassificationXianya Fu, Wenrui Li, Qiurui Chen … Rui WangSpringer CCIS · Beihang University · State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control
  36. 2020
    Task-Agnostic Online Reinforcement Learning with an Infinite Mixture of Gaussian ProcessesMengdi Xu, Wenhao Ding, Jiacheng Zhu … Ding ZhaoNeurIPS · Carnegie Mellon University · Tsinghua University · +1
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  37. 2019
    Affinity Regularized Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Lifelong Topic ModelingYong Chen, Junjie Wu, Jianying Lin … Zhiwen YeTKDE · Beihang 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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