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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
    Robust adaptation of visual representations for few-shot class-incremental learning via geometric calibrationTao Zhang, C.L. Philip Chen, Xiwen Luo … Jiehao LiPattern Recognition · South China University of Technology · South China Agricultural University · +1
  2. 2026
    Brain-Inspired Synergistic-Memory Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJiale Chen, Feng Xu, Xin Lyu … Hao TangInformation Fusion · Hohai University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  3. 2026
    Collaborative Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Graph Domain Incremental LearningJialu Li, Yu Wang, Wanyu Lin, Pengfei ZhuKDD · Tianjin University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  4. 2026
    Online Lifelong Dynamic Learning Control for Manipulators With Closed Architecture in Multi-Tasking EnvironmentsMingyu Wang, M Wang, Chenguang YangRA-L · Ministry of Education · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  5. 2026
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Trento · +5
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  6. 2026
    Incomplete cross-modality class-incremental learning in visible-thermal recognitionXinjie Yao, Yanxian Bi, Yu Wang … Qinghua HuPattern Recognition · Kunming University of Science and Technology · Tianjin University · +5
  7. 2026
    Class-Incremental Cloud-Device Collaborative Adaptation With Contrastive Learning in Dynamic Changing EnvironmentsYushi Zeng, Haopeng Ren, Yi Cai … Qing LiTNNLS · South China University of Technology · Guangzhou University · +3
  8. 2026
    Pattern in Motion: Retrieval-Augmented Learning for Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Graphs.Haoyu Zhang, Xinke Jiang, Wentao Zhang … Heqing HuangTPAMI · City University of Hong Kong · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
  9. 2026
    Robust Personalized Federated Continual Learning via Explainable Multi-Granularity Prompt.Hao Yu, Xiaomin Yang, Boyang Fan … Qiang YangTPAMI · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) · Shenzhen Weiguang Biological Products (China) · +3
  10. 2025
    REAL: Representation Enhanced Analytic Learning for Exemplar-free Class-incremental LearningRun He, Di Fang, Yizhu Chen … Huiping ZhuangKnowledge-Based Systems · South China University of Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  11. 2025
    Probabilistic Mixture of Hyperbolic Mamba for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYawen Cui, Wenbin Zou, Huiping Zhuang … Lap‐Pui ChauACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · South China University of Technology
  12. 2025
    Any-SSR: How Recursive Least Squares Works in Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsKai Tong, Kang Pan, Xiao Zhang … Huiping ZhuangICCV · South China University of Technology · Xiaomi (China) · +1
  13. 2025
    SPOT: An efficient training-free task similarity quantification method for continual learningXulong Wang, Yu Zhang, Tong Liu … Po YangPattern Recognition Letters · University of Sheffield · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  14. 2025
    Visible-thermal cross-modality class-incremental learningXinjie Yao, Yingxue Wang, Yingxue Wang … Weihao LiExpert Systems with Applications · Tianjin University · Tianjin haihe hospital · +3
  15. 2025
    Unleashing the Power of Continual Learning on Non-Centralized Devices: A SurveyYichen Li, Haozhao Wang, Wenchao Xu … Ruixuan LiIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +5
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  16. 2025
    Few-Shot Audio-Visual Class-Incremental Learning with Temporal Prompting and RegularizationYawen Cui, Li Liu, Zitong Yu … Xiaopeng HongAAAI · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Great Bay University · +1
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  17. 2024
    Prior-free Balanced Replay: Uncertainty-guided Reservoir Sampling for Long-Tailed Continual LearningLei Liu, Li Liu, Yawen CuiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · +3
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  18. 2024
    Open World Object Detection: A SurveyYiming Li, Yi Wang, Wenqian Wang … Kim–Hui YapIEEE TCSVT · Nanyang Technological University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +2
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  19. 2024
    SR-FDIL: Synergistic Replay for Federated Domain-Incremental LearningYichen Li, Wenchao Xu, Yining Qi … Song GuoIEEE Transactions · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +1
  20. 2024
    Non-exemplar Online Class-Incremental Continual Learning via Dual-Prototype Self-Augment and RefinementFushuo Huo, Wenchao Xu, Jingcai Guo … Yunfeng FanAAAI · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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  21. 2024
    TaSL: Continual Dialog State Tracking via Task Skill Localization and ConsolidationYujie Feng, Xu Chu, Yongxin Xu … Xiao-Ming WuACL · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Peking University · +1
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  22. 2024
    Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Reason-of-Select DistillationYujie Feng, Bo Liu, Xiaoyu Dong … Albert Y. S. LamACL · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Fano Labs (China)
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  23. 2022
    AdaptCL: Adaptive Continual Learning for Tackling Heterogeneity in Sequential DatasetsYuqing Zhao, Divya Saxena, Jiannong CaoTNNLS · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  24. 2024
    No One Left Behind: Real-World Federated Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Hongliu Li, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  25. 2023
    Task Relation Distillation and Prototypical Pseudo Label for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Hongliu Li, Wei Wei Cong … Xiuyi ChenCIKM · Baidu (China) · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +3
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  26. 2022
    Memory-Efficient Domain Incremental Learning for Internet of ThingsYuqing Zhao, Divya Saxena, Jiannong CaoACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  27. 2021
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Few-Shot Learning by Finding Flat MinimaGuangyuan Shi, Jiaxin Chen, Wenlong Zhang … Xiao-Ming WuNeurIPS · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  28. 2020
    A Two-phase Prototypical Network Model for Incremental Few-shot Relation ClassificationHaopeng Ren, Yi Cai, Xiaofeng Chen … Qing LiCOLING · Ministry of Natural Resources · South China University of Technology · +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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