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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
    D-Know: Disentangled Domain Knowledge-Aided Learning for Open-Domain Continual Object DetectionBintao He, Caixia Yan, Yan Kou … Yugui XieApplied Sciences · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Digital Video (Italy)
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  2. 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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  3. 2025
    Dual-Attention based prompt generation and catalyzing for instance-wise continual learningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangPattern Recognition · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +5
  4. 2025
    Progressive Homeostatic and Plastic Prompt Tuning for Audio-Visual Multi-Task Incremental LearningJiong Yin, Li Li, Jiehua Zhang … Xichun ShengICCV · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  5. 2025
    Self-Supervised Continual Graph Learning via Adaptive Spaced Replay on Node ProxiesZhen Peng, Xu Hua, Jingchen Hao … Chao ShenKDD · Xi'an Jiaotong University · National University of Singapore · +1
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  6. 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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  7. 2025
    Multi-Granularity Class Prototype Topology Distillation for Class-Incremental Source-Free Unsupervised Domain AdaptationPeihua Deng, Jiehua Zhang, Xichun Sheng … L. LiCVPR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +4
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  8. 2025
    Boosting Domain Incremental Learning: Selecting the Optimal Parameters is All You NeedQiang Wang, Xiang Song, Yuhang He … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  9. 2025
    Dynamic Integration of Task-Specific Adapters for Class Incremental LearningJiashuo Li, Shaokun Wang, Bo Qian … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  10. 2025
    Learning Endogenous Attention for Incremental Object DetectionXiang Song, Yuhang He, Jingyuan Li … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  11. 2025
    ALADE-SNN: Adaptive Logit Alignment in Dynamically Expandable Spiking Neural Networks for Class Incremental LearningWenyao Ni, Jiangrong Shen, Qi Xu, Huajin TangAAAI · Zhejiang University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +1
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  12. 2025
    Prompt Customization for Continual LearningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangIEEE TAI · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +6
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  13. 2025
    Analogical Augmentation and Significance Analysis for Online Task-Free Continual LearningSonglin Dong, Yingjie Chen, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Nanyang Technological University
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  14. 2025
    Training Networks in Null Space of Feature Covariance With Self-Supervision for Incremental LearningShipeng Wang, Xiaorong Li, Jian Sun, Zongben XuTPAMI · Xi'an Jiaotong 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 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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