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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
    Rethinking Obscured Sub-Optimality in Analytic Learning for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningZijian Gao, Kele Xu, Xingxing Zhang … Huaimin WangIEEE TCSVT · National University of Defense Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
  2. 2025
    CDFFCIL: Comprehensive Framework for Data-Free Federated Class-Incremental LearningWei Liu, Zhaoyun Ding, Lailong Luo … Cheng ZhuInternational Conference on Big Data and Information Anal… · National University of Defense Technology
  3. 2025
    Hyperbolic Prompt Learning for Incremental Event Detection with LLMsXiujin Zhang, Wenxin Jin, Haotian Hong … Li SunCIKM · North China Electric Power University · Anhui University of Science and Technology · +2
  4. 2025
    TMEA: Task-Modularized Evolutionary Aggregation for Federated Continual LearningPan Wang, Gao Mt, Quan Wen … Yaohong ZhangInternational Conference on Big Data and Information Anal… · National University of Defense Technology
  5. 2025
    Pursuing Better Representations: Balancing Discriminability and Transferability for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningQi Li, Wei Wang, Hui Fan … Fei WenJournal of Imaging · National University of Defense Technology · Central South University of Forestry and Technology · +2
  6. 2025
    Analytic Synaptic Dynamic Scaling Balancer for Multimodal Deepfake Continual DetectionMan Xiao, Jianbin Ye, Bo Liu … Xiaodong WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · National University of Defense Technology · Academy of Military Medical Sciences
  7. 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
  8. 2025
    Enhancing long-term memory in federated class continual learning with lightweight adaptersPan Wang, Wang Ji, Zhengyi Zhong … Jianguo ChenNeurocomputing · National University of Defense Technology · Sun Yat-sen University
  9. 2025
    NI-SSCL: A Neuroplasticity-Inspired Method for Semisupervised Continual LearningGuanglei Xie, Yi Sun, Xin Xu … Xiaochang HuIEEE TCDS · National University of Defense Technology · PLA Academy of Military Science · +3
  10. 2025
    Model Rectification With Simultaneous Incremental Feature and Partial Label SetXijia Tang, Chao Xu, Chenping HouTPAMI · National University of Defense Technology
  11. 2025
    Max-Informative Unlabeled Sample Replay for Semi-Supervised Class-Incremental Learning in Audio ClassificationQiang Wang, Ao Shen, Dawei Feng … Huaimin WangIEEE International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing (JCC) · National University of Defense Technology
  12. 2025
    Continual Defense Against Evolving Jailbreaks: A Multi-Agent Adversarial Framework with Linear Gating MoEQianqiao Xu, Feng LiuInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big… · National University of Defense Technology
  13. 2025
    Knowledge Memorization and Rumination for Pre-trained Model-based Class-Incremental LearningZijian Gao, Wangwang Jia, Xingxing Zhang … Huaimin WangCVPR · National University of Defense Technology · Tsinghua University
  14. 2025
    Federated Class-Incremental Learning: A SurveyXuefeng Zhu, Liang Bai, Yirun RuanICML · National University of Defense Technology
  15. 2025
    SacFL: Self-Adaptive Federated Continual Learning for Resource-Constrained End DevicesZhengyi Zhong, Weidong Bao, Ji Wang … Wei Yang Bryan LimTNNLS · National University of Defense Technology · Sun Yat-sen University · +2
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  16. 2025
    Memory replay with unlabeled data for semi-supervised class-incremental learning via temporal consistencyQiang Wang, Kele Xu, Dawei Feng … Huaimin WangFrontiers of Computer Science · National University of Defense Technology
  17. 2025
    Maintaining Fairness in Logit-based Knowledge Distillation for Class-Incremental LearningZijian Gao, Shanhao Han, Xingxing Zhang … Huaimin WangAAAI · National University of Defense Technology · Tsinghua University
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  18. 2025
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning for Classification and Object Detection: A SurveyJinghua Zhang, Li Liu, Olli Sílven … Dewen HuTPAMI · National University of Defense Technology · University of Oulu
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  19. 2025
    CMoA: Contrastive Mixture of Adapters for Generalized Few-Shot Continual LearningYawen Cui, Jian Zhao, Zitong Yu … Xuelong LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · China Telecom (China) · +6
  20. 2025
    Hippocampal-like Sequential Editing for Continual Knowledge Updates in Large Language ModelsQuntian Fang, Zhen Huang, Zhiliang Tian … Guotong GengNeurIPS · National University of Defense Technology · United States Department of Defense · +1
  21. 2025
    Contrastive Continual Multiview Clustering With Filtered Structural FusionXinhang Wan, Jiyuan Liu, Hao Yu … En ZhuTNNLS · National University of Defense Technology · Harbin University of Science and Technology
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  22. 2025
    StaRS: Learning a Stable Representation Space for Continual Relation ClassificationNing Pang, Xiang Zhao, Weixin Zeng … Weidong XiaoTNNLS · National University of Defense 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. 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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