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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
    Learning dynamic representations via an optimally-weighted maximum mean discrepancy optimization framework for continual learningKaihui Huang, Runqing Wu, Jinhui Shen … Fei YeKnowledge-Based Systems · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +2
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  2. 2025
    Towards understanding memory buffer based continual learningGuodong Zheng, Peng Wang, Tao Sun, Li ShenNeural Networks · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
  3. 2025
    Low-Resource Domain Adaptation for Speech LLMs via Text-Only Fine-TuningY. Y. Fang, Jing Peng, Xu Li … Kai YuIEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Works… · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +1
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  4. 2025
    Towards Effective Open-set Graph Class-incremental LearningJiazhen Chen, Zheng Ma, Sichao Fu … Weihua OuACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Waterloo · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +1
  5. 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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  6. 2025
    Multiple semantic prompt for rehearsal-free continual learningJunwei Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Depeng Li, Zhigang ZengNeural Networks · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  7. 2025
    Ferret: An Efficient Online Continual Learning Framework under Varying Memory ConstraintsYuhao Zhou, Yuxin Tian, Jindi Lv … Jiancheng LvCVPR · Sichuan University · National University of Singapore · +3
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  8. 2025
    Incremental Object Keypoint LearningMingfu Liang, Jiahuan Zhou, Xu Zou, Ying WuCVPR · Peking University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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  9. 2025
    TSPT: Two-Step Prompt Tuning for class-incremental novel class discoveryJie An, Zhenbang Du, Herui Zhang, Dongrui WuKnowledge-Based Systems · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  10. 2025
    Adaptive Prototype Replay for Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuilin Zhu, Dongyue Wu, Changxin Gao … Nong SangAAAI · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hunan Normal University
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  11. 2025
    Re-Fed+: A Better Replay Strategy for Federated Incremental LearningYichen Li, Haozhao Wang, Yining Qi … Ruixuan LiTPAMI · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  12. 2025
    Complementary Learning Subnetworks Towards Parameter-Efficient Class-Incremental LearningDepeng Li, Zhigang Zeng, Wei Dai, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanTKDE · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · China University of Mining and Technology · +1
  13. 2025
    Continual Gaussian Mixture Distribution Modeling for Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuilin Zhu, Runmin Wang, Yuanjie Shao … Changxin GaoNeurIPS · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hunan Normal University
  14. 2025
    RECALL: REpresentation-aligned Catastrophic-forgetting ALLeviation via Hierarchical Model MergingBowen Wang, Haiyuan Wan, Liwen Shi … Sheng ZhangEMNLP · University Town of Shenzhen · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute · +6
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  15. 2025
    A Minimalistic Unified Framework for Incremental Learning across Image Restoration TasksXiaoxuan Gong, Jie MaNeurIPS · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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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