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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
    Analyzing and Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Parameter Efficient TuningX.R. Li, Weijieying Ren, Wei Qin … Richang HongICASSP · Pennsylvania State University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  2. 2025
    Dynamic Object Queries for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionJichuan Zhang, Wei Li, Shuang Cheng … Shengjin WangICASSP · Tsinghua University · Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  3. 2025
    Freeze and Learn: Continual Learning with Selective Freezing for Speech Deepfake DetectionDavide Salvi, Viola Negroni, Luca Bondi … Stefano TubaroICASSP · Politecnico di Milano · Robert Bosch (United States)
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  4. 2025
    IOR: Inversed Objects Replay for Incremental Object DetectionZijia An, Boyu Diao, Libo Huang … Yongjun XuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology
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  5. 2025
    Multi-Prototype Grouping for Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringLicheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao, Yixing Peng … Yongdong ZhangICASSP · University of Science and Technology of China
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    UIDAPLE: Unsupervised Incremental Domain Adaptation through Adaptive Prompt LearningSamrat Kumar Mukherjee, Tanuj Sur, Saurish Seksaria … Biplab BanerjeeICASSP · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · Chennai Mathematical Institute · +1
  7. 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
  8. 2025
    Controllable Forgetting Mechanism for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKirill Paramonov, Mete Özay, Eunju Yang … Umberto MichieliICASSP · Samsung (United Kingdom) · Samsung (South Korea)
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  9. 2025
    Leveraging Pre-Trained Models for Multimodal Class-Incremental Learning under Adaptive FusionYukun Chen, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Qingbo WuICASSP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  10. 2025
    A New Model for Prototype-based Continual Learning in Hyperspherical SpaceYixin Ren, Yewei Xia, Ke Li … Shuigeng ZhouICASSP · Fudan University · Alibaba Group (China)
  11. 2025
    Efficient Prototypical Classifier for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Jingyang Qiao, Yuan Xie … Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
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    Prototype Alignment with LoRA Fusion for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
  14. 2025
    Enhancing Data-Free Class-Incremental Learning via Image-Centric Dual DistillationFeifei Fu, Zhiwu LuICASSP · Renmin University of China
  15. 2025
    kNN-CL: Enhancing Continual Learning with Nearest Neighbor RetrievalEnzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Hao Chen … Xin ZhouICASSP · Nankai University · Intel (United States) · +1
  16. 2025
    Towards Differential Optimization: Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental Learning with Slow Learners and Fast AdaptersYinghong Chen, Huanjia Zhu, Jiali Cai … Bingzhi ChenICASSP · South China Normal University
  17. 2025
    ValSub: Subsampling Validation Data to Mitigate Forgetting during ASR PersonalizationHaaris Mehmood, Karthikeyan Saravanan, Pablo Peso Parada … Seokyeong JungICASSP · Samsung (United Kingdom) · Samsung (South Korea)
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  18. 2025
    ViCo: A Multitask Video-enhanced and Cognition-preserving Modality Alignment Training FrameworkZhiyi Yu, Jin Chen, Jiayu Shen … Yanmei KangICASSP · Telenor (Norway) · China Central Television · +2
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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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