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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
    Sparse Tuning Enhances Plasticity in PTM-based Continual LearningHuan Zhang, Shenghua Fan, Shuyu Dong … Fan LyuAAAI · Wuhan University · Central China Normal University · +2
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  2. 2025
    Continual learning of multiple cognitive functions with a brain-inspired temporal development mechanismBing Han, feifei Zhao, Yinqian Sun … Yi ZengNational Science Review · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Institute of Automation · +2
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  3. 2025
    Active Semi-supervised Continual Learning for Robotic Object RecognitionSangzhou Xia, Xiangli Nie, Peng WangSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
  4. 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
  5. 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
  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
    Vision-Language Navigation with Continual Learning for Unseen EnvironmentsZhiyuan Li, Yanfeng Lu, Di Shang … Hong QiaoIROS · Institute of Automation
  8. 2025
    Leveraging Multiple Deep Experts for Online Class-incremental LearningZhe Tao, Lu Yu, Hantao Yao, Changsheng XuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
  9. 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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  10. 2025
    Language Guided Concept Bottleneck Models for Interpretable Continual LearningLu Yu, Haoyu Han, Zhe Tao … Chris XuCVPR · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
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  11. 2025
    Beyond Background Shift: Rethinking Instance Replay in Continual Semantic SegmentationHongmei Yin, Tingliang Feng, Fan Lyu … Liang WanCVPR · Tianjin University · Institute of Automation
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  12. 2025
    Enhance the old representations' adaptability dynamically for exemplar-free continual learningKunchi Li, Chaoyue Ding, Jun Wan, Shan YuNeurocomputing · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +1
  13. 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
  14. 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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  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
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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