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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.

180 papers of 8,653 · showing 1–50Sort Recent · Most cited
  1. 2026
    Research on anti-forgetting training strategies for open-vocabulary object detection systemsYujia He, Jianshe Dong, Jiayu LinICCV · Tianjin University of Technology and Education
  2. 2026
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  4. 2025
    SMoLoRa: Exploring and Defying Dual Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Visual Instruction TuningZiqi Wang, C. Che, Qi Wang … Meng WangICCV · Hefei University of Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
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  5. 2025
    External Knowledge Injection for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental LearningDawei Zhou, Kaiwen Li, Jingyi Ning … De‐Chuan ZhanICCV · Nanjing University
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  6. 2025
    GaussianUpdate: Continual 3D Gaussian Splatting Update for Changing EnvironmentsLin Zeng, Boming Zhao, J Hu … Zhaopeng CuiICCV · Zhejiang University
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  7. 2025
    Federated Continual Instruction TuningHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuICCV · Advanced Engineering (Czechia) · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics · +1
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  8. 2025
    iManip: Skill-Incremental Learning for Robotic ManipulationZexin Zheng, Jia-Feng Cai, Xiao-Ming Wu … Wei-Shi ZhengICCV · Sun Yat-sen University
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  9. 2025
    Dynamic Multi-Layer Null Space Projection for Vision-Language Continual LearningBorui Kang, Lei Wang, Zhiping Wu … Weiwei LiICCV · Nanjing University · University of Wollongong · +2
  10. 2025
    Adversarial Robust Memory-Based Continual LearnerXiaoyue Mi, Fan Tang, Zonghan Yang … Yang LiuICCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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  11. 2025
    Ask and Remember: A Questions-Only Replay Strategy for Continual Visual Question AnsweringImad Eddine Marouf, Enzo Tartaglione, Stéphane Lathuilière, Joost van de WeijerICCV · Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information · Universitat de Barcelona
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  12. 2025
    Generalization-Preserved Learning: Closing the Backdoor to Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Deepfake DetectionXi Zhang, Peiyin Zhu, Chengwei Zhang … Yanming GuoICCV · National University of Defense Technology · National University of Singapore · +4
  13. 2025
    RainbowPrompt: Diversity-Enhanced Prompt-Evolving for Continual LearningKiseong Hong, Gyeong-Hyeon Kim, Eunwoo KimICCV · Chung-Ang University
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  14. 2025
    Revisiting Pool-Based Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYongwei Jiang, Yixiong Zou, Yuhua Li, Ruixuan LiICCV · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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  15. 2025
    Joint Diffusion Models in Continual LearningPaweł Skierś, Kamil Rafał DejaICCV · Warsaw University of Technology · IDEA of Development Foundation
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  16. 2025
    CODE-CL: Conceptor-Based Gradient Projection for Deep Continual LearningMarco Paul E. Apolinario, Sakshi Choudhary, Kaushik RoyICCV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  17. 2025
    Achieving More with Less: Additive Prompt Tuning for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental LearningHao Chen, Ping Wang, Zihan Zhou … Yu–Gang JiangICCV · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing · American Public University System
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  18. 2025
    Can Synthetic Images Conquer Forgetting? Beyond Unexplored Doubts in Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJunsu Kim, Yunhoe Ku, Seungryul BaekICCV · Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology · MemBrain (Czechia)
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  19. 2025
    Gradient Decomposition and Alignment for Incremental Object DetectionWenlong Luo, Xicheng Zhang, De Cheng … Y ZhangICCV · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  20. 2025
    PLAN: Proactive Low-Rank Allocation for Continual LearningX Wang, Zhan Zhuang, Y ZhangICCV · Southern University of Science and Technology
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  21. 2025
    RICO: Two Realistic Benchmarks and an In-Depth Analysis for Incremental Learning in Object DetectionMatthias Neuwirth-Trapp, Maarten Bieshaar, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van GooICCV · Robert Bosch (India) · Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
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  22. 2025
    Seeing 3D Through 2D Lenses: 3D Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Cross-Modal Geometric RectificationTuo Xiang, Xuemiao Xu, Bangzhen Liu … Shengfeng HeICCV · South China University of Technology · Singapore Management University
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  24. 2025
    Instruction-Grounded Visual Projectors for Continual Learning of Generative Vision-Language ModelsHyundong Jin, Hyung Jin Chang, Eunwoo KimICCV · Chung-Ang University · University of Birmingham
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  25. 2025
    Task-Aware Prompt Gradient Projection for Parameter-Efficient Tuning Federated Class-Incremental LearningHualong Ke, Jiangming Shi, Yachao Zhang … Yanyun QuICCV · Xiamen University
  26. 2025
    Continual Adaptation: Environment-Conditional Parameter Generation for Object Detection in Dynamic ScenariosLi Deng, Aming Wu, Yang Li … Yahong HanICCV · Tianjin University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  27. 2025
    FedAGC: Federated Continual Learning with Asymmetric Gradient CorrectionC T Zhang, Fanhua Shang, Hongyin Liu … Wei FengICCV · Tianjin University · Tianjin Medical University
  28. 2025
    Flexi-FSCIL: Adaptive Knowledge Retention for Breaking the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma in Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningWufei Xie, Yue Wang, Chenliang Liu … Xue YangICCV · Central South University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  29. 2025
    Hierarchical Visual Prompt Learning for Continual Video Instance SegmentationJiahua Dong, Hui Yin, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanICCV · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Hunan University · +3
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  30. 2025
    Infusing Fine-Grained Visual Knowledge to Vision-Language ModelsNikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis, Kaifeng Chen, Andre B. Araujo, Ondřej ChumICCV · Czech Technical University in Prague · Google (United States) · +1
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    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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  33. 2025
    Does Prior Data Matter? Exploring Joint Training in the Context of Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShiwon Kim, Dongjun Hwang, Sungwon Woo, Rita SinghICCV · Yonsei University · Sogang University · +1
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  34. 2025
    ESSENTIAL: Episodic and Semantic Memory Integration for Video Class-Incremental LearningJongseo Lee, Kyungho Bae, Kyle Min … Jinwoo ChoiICCV · Kyung Hee University · Dansk Sygehus Institut · +1
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  35. 2025
    Incremental Object Detection with Prompt-Based MethodsMatthias Neuwirth–Trapp, Maarten Bieshaar, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van GoolICCV · Robert Bosch (India) · Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
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  36. 2025
    Lark: Low-Rank Updates After Knowledge Localization for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJinxin Shi, Jiabao Zhao, Yifan Yang … Liang HeICCV · East China Normal University · Donghua University
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  38. 2025
    LoRA-Loop: Closing the Synthetic Replay Cycle for Continual VLM LearningKaihong Wang, Donghyun Kim, Margrit BetkeICCV · Boston University · Korea University
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  39. 2025
    MONET: Multi-Modal Online Continual Learning with Novelty EstimationEvelyn Chee, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li LeeICCV · National University of Singapore
  40. 2025
    Overcoming Dual Drift for Continual Long-Tailed Visual Question AnsweringFeifei Zhang, Zhihao Wang, Xi Zhang, Changsheng XuICCV · Tianjin University of Technology · Alibaba Group (United States) · +1
  41. 2025
    PROL: Rehearsal Free Continual Learning in Streaming Data via Prompt Online LearningM. Anwar Ma’sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Savitha Ramasamy … Ryszard KowalczykICCV · University of South Australia · Institute for Infocomm Research
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  42. 2025
    A Tiny Change, a Giant Leap: Long-Tailed Class-Incremental Learning via Geometric Prototype AlignmentXinyi Lai, Luojun Lin, Weijie Chen, Yuanlong YuICCV · Fuzhou University · Zhejiang University
  43. 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
  44. 2025
    Continual Personalization for Diffusion ModelsYu-Chien Liao, J.C. Chen, Chi-Pin Huang … Yu-Chiang Frank WangICCV · National Taiwan University · Qualcomm (United Kingdom)
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  45. 2025
    Feature Decomposition-Recomposition in Large Vision-Language Model for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZongyao Xue, Meina Kan, Shiguang Shan, Xilin ChenICCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology
  46. 2025
    Incremental Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation Via Multi-Level Switchable Visual PromptsMaoxian Wan, Kaige Li, Qichuan Geng … Zhong ZhouICCV · Beihang University · Capital Normal University
  47. 2025
    The Inter-Intra Modal Measure: A Predictive Lens on Fine-Tuning Outcomes in Vision-Language ModelsLaura Niss, Kevin Vogt-Lowell, Theodoros TsiligkaridisICCV · MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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  49. 2025
    B-Cos Networks as an Architectural Inductive Bias for Mitigating Catastrophic ForgettingAmelia Sorrenti, Giovanni Bellitto, Salvatore Calcagno … Simone PalazzoICCV · University of Catania
  50. 2025
    CRAM: Large-Scale Video Continual Learning with Bootstrapped CompressionShivani Mall, João F. HenriquesICCV · Oxford Research Group
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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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