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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
    PrePrompt: Predictive Prompting for Class Incremental LearningLibo Huang, Xiangqi Li, Jiarui Zhao … Yongjun XuKDD · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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  2. 2025
    Active Semi-supervised Continual Learning for Robotic Object RecognitionSangzhou Xia, Xiangli Nie, Peng WangSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
  3. 2025
    R2A2-MoE: Ridge Regression-Based Analytic Adaptation with Mixture of Experts for Continual Learning with Vision-Language ModelsM. X. Liu, Quan Fang, Junyu Gao, Yang YangSpringer LNCS · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  4. 2025
    THMM-CLIP: Task-Guided Hierarchical Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYingdong Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM Transactions · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +2
  5. 2025
    Swin-NSPT: Null-Space Prompt Tuning for Continual Learning in Swin TransformersYunjie Han, Hui Li, Zhengmin Jiang … Jianxing LiuIEEE 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data,… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +5
  6. 2025
    FAGR: Feature-Action Generative Replay for Robot Lifelong Imitation LearningYushi Yang, Xiangli Nie, Chang LiuRA-L · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  7. 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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  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 2025
    CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKexin Bao, Daichi Zhang, Hansong Zhang … Shiming GeIJCAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +1
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  11. 2025
    C3GAN: A brain-inspired memory consolidation for class-incremental learningLin Xiong, Tao Wang, Fuqing Zhang … Hailing XiongNeural Networks · Southwest University · Chongqing Jiaotong University · +2
  12. 2025
    CKCA-Det: class knowledge constraint-adaption for incremental few shot object detectionZongyan An, Zhongbi Chen, Jianlin Zhang, Meihui LiInternational Conference on Image, Signal Processing, and… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  13. 2025
    BiCon : Bi-Branch Network with Contour-Enhanced Features for Class Incremental LearningFengcheng Zeng, Qiming Yang, Heng Shu … Chenghao HuIJCNN · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software · +2
  14. 2025
    FedPTR: Enhancing Federated Prompt Learning with Server-Side Retraining for Non-IID DataYufeng Chen, Min Liu, Sheng Sun, Zhongcheng LiIJCNN · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  15. 2025
    Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language ModelsWu Bin, Wuxuan Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Mang YeCVPR · Wuhan University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  16. 2025
    CKDF-V2: Effectively Alleviating Representation Shift for Continual Learning With Small MemoryKunchi Li, Hongyang Chen, Jun Wan, Shan YuTNNLS · Xiamen University of Technology · Zhejiang Lab · +2
  17. 2025
    Prompt-Enhanced: Leveraging language representation for prompt continual learning.Wei Li, D. M. Li, Shitong Shao … Zhen LeiNeural Networks · Southeast University · Duke Kunshan University · +2
  18. 2025
    FreewayML: An Adaptive and Stable Streaming Learning Framework for Dynamic Data StreamsZheng Qin, Zheheng Liang, Lijie Xu … Wei WangICDE · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software · +3
  19. 2025
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Asymmetric Supervised Contrastive LearningDuo Liu, Linglan Zhao, Zhongqiang Zhang … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent (China) · +4
  20. 2025
    Pseudo Informative Episode Construction for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningChaofan Chen, Xiaoshan Yang, Changsheng XuAAAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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  21. 2025
    Learning Temporal Event Knowledge for Continual Social Event ClassificationShengsheng Qian, Shengjie Zhang, Dizhan Xue … Changsheng XuTKDE · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  22. 2025
    Compression and restoration: exploring elasticity in continual test-time adaptationJingwei Li, Chengbao Liu, Xiwei Bai … Yu WangMachine Learning · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
  23. 2025
    Prompt-based learning for few-shot class-incremental learningJicheng Yuan, Hang Chen, Songsong Tian … Yugui ZhangAlexandria Engineering Journal · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Semiconductors · +3
  24. 2025
    Meta-weighted Prototype Contrastive Rehearsal for Online Continual LearningSangzhou Xia, Yushi Yang, Xiangli Nie, Muyao CaiIEEE 17th International Conference on Computer Research a… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation
  25. 2025
    Knowledge fusion distillation and gradient-based data distillation for class-incremental learningLin Xiong, Xin Guan, Hailing Xiong … Fuqing ZhangNeurocomputing · Southwest University · Chongqing Jiaotong University · +2
  26. 2025
    Lightweight Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation Without Catastrophic ForgettingWei Cong, Yang Cong, Yu RenTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  27. 2025
    A Continual Learning Method for Generalized Grasping Manipulation in a Musculoskeletal RobotBo Jiang, Ci Song, Siyuan Liu … Jiahao ChenIEEE Transactions · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation
  28. 2025
    Dual Uncertainty-Aware Correspondence Adapting and Retaining for Continual Composed Image RetrievalHaoliang Zhou, Feifei Zhang, Changsheng XuTIP · Tianjin University of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  29. 2025
    Gradient-Guided Epsilon Constraint Method for Online Continual LearningSong Lai, Changyi Ma, Fei Zhu … Qingfu ZhangNeurIPS · City University of Hong Kong · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +4
  30. 2025
    Collaborative Adapter Experts for Class-Incremental LearningSunyuan Qiang, Xinxing Yu, Yanyan Liang … Du ZhangIEEE Signal Processing Letters · Macau University of Science and Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  31. 2025
    TactCLNet: Tactile Continual Learning Network Based on Generative Replay for Object Hardness RecognitionYiwen Liu, Zhengkun Yi, Senlin Fang … Xinyu WuIEEE Transactions · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +3
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 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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