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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
    Boosting Multi-Modal Alignment: Geometric Feature Separation for Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Chuan Qin, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  2. 2025
    Gradient Decomposition and Alignment for Incremental Object DetectionWenlong Luo, Xicheng Zhang, De Cheng … Y ZhangICCV · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  3. 2025
    Cross-F$^{2}$SCIL: A Federated Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning Method for Cross Mobile Edge Network EnvironmentsLi Yao, Yan Liu, Bin Guo … Zhiwen YuIEEE Transactions · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Fudan University · +1
  4. 2025
    Rethinking Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding: Benchmarks and AnalysisTianzhe Zhao, Jiaoyan Chen, Yanchi Ru … Jun LiuSIGIR · Xi'an Jiaotong University · University of Manchester · +3
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  5. 2025
    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
  6. 2025
    Revisiting Generative Replay for Class Incremental Object DetectionShizhou Zhang, Xueqiang Lv, Yinghui Xing … Yanning ZhangCVPR · Northwestern Polytechnical University
  7. 2025
    Training Consistent Mixture-of-Experts-Based Prompt Generator for Continual LearningYue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  8. 2025
    CoLeCLIP: Open-Domain Continual Learning via Joint Task Prompt and Vocabulary LearningYukun Li, Guansong Pang, Wei Suo … Peng WangTNNLS · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Singapore Management University · +2
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  9. 2025
    Using samples with label noise for robust continual learningHongyi Nie, Shiqi Fan, Yang Liu … Zhen WangNeural Networks · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Tsinghua University
  10. 2025
    HDMoLE: Mixture of LoRA Experts with Hierarchical Routing and Dynamic Thresholds for Fine-Tuning LLM-based ASR ModelsBingshen Mu, Kun Wei, Qijie Shao … Lei XieICASSP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Tencent (China)
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  11. 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
  12. 2025
    Joint Memory Optimization for Continual LearningZhiheng Ma, Yaohui Ma, Xiaopeng Hong … Shizhou ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +2
  13. 2025
    CMoA: Contrastive Mixture of Adapters for Generalized Few-Shot Continual LearningYawen Cui, Jian Zhao, Zitong Yu … Xuelong LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · China Telecom (China) · +6
  14. 2025
    Continual Learning Inspired by Brain Functionality: A Comprehensive SurveyMuhammad Azeem Aslam, Muhammad Ali Hamza, Zhu Shuangtong … Saba AslamInternational Journal of Intelligent Systems · Asia University · Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics · +3
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  15. 2025
    Enhancing Feature Learning With Hard Samples in Mutual Learning for Online Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Shibin Su, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · 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. It lists only 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. 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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