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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    Evolving Ensemble Model based on Hilbert Schmidt Independence Criterion for task-free continual learningFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşNeurocomputing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
  2. 2025
    Joint Event Detection with Dynamic Adaptation and Semantic RelevanceXi Zeng, Guangchun Luo, Ke QinElectronics · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · China Electronics Technology Group Corporation
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  3. 2025
    MINGLE: Mixture of Null-Space Gated Low-Rank Experts for Test-Time Continual Model MergingZihuan Qiu, Yidong Xu, Chiyuan He … Hongliang LiNeurIPS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Amazon (Germany) · +1
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  4. 2025
    Geodesic-Aligned Gradient Projection for Continual Task LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Haitao Wen … Hongliang LiTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  5. 2025
    Plug-In Open-Set Cross-Modal HashingBowen Wang, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li … Jingjing LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Tongji University · University of Technology Sydney · +3
  6. 2025
    A3-TTA: Adaptive Anchor Alignment Test-Time Adaptation for Image SegmentationJianghao Wu, Xiangde Luo, Yubo Zhou … Shaoting ZhangTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +1
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  7. 2025
    Distribution-Level Memory Recall for Continual Learning: Preserving Knowledge and Avoiding ConfusionShaoxu Cheng, Kanglei Geng, Chiyuan He … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  8. 2025
    Dynamic Siamese Expansion Framework for Improving Robustness in Online Continual LearningFei Ye, Yulong Zhao, Qihe Liu … shijie zhouNeurIPS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
  9. 2025
    Learning Expandable and Adaptable Representations for Continual LearningRuilong Yu, Mingyan Liu, Fei Ye … shijie zhouNeurIPS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
  10. 2025
    C$^2$Prompt: Class-aware Client Knowledge Interaction for Federated Continual LearningKunlun Xu, Yibo Feng, Jiangmeng Li … Jiahuan ZhouNeurIPS · Peking University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
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  11. 2025
    Learning Multi-Source and Robust Representations for Continual LearningFei Ye, yongcheng zhong, Qihe Liu … shijie zhouNeurIPS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
  12. 2024
    Multi-scale Consistency Deep Lifelong Cross-modal HashingLiming Xu, Hanqi Li, Jie Shao … Weisheng LiACM Transactions · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · China West Normal University · +2
  13. 2024
    Continual compression model for online continual learningFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşApplied Soft Computing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +1
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  14. 2024
    TS-ILM:Class Incremental Learning for Online Action DetectionXiaochen Li, Jian Cheng, Ziying Xia … Nyima TashiACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tibet University
  15. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning With Less Forgetting Direction and Equilibrium PointHaitao Wen, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiIEEE TCSVT · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  16. 2024
    Video Class-Incremental Learning With Clip Based TransformerShuyun Lu, Jian Jiao, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiICIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  17. 2024
    Few-shot class incremental learning via prompt transfer and knowledge distillationFeidu Akmel, Fanman Meng, Mingyu Liu … Elias LemuyeImage and Vision Computing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  18. 2024
    Is Our Continual Learner Reliable? Investigating Its Decision Attribution Stability through SHAP Value ConsistencyYusong Cai, Shimou Ling, Liang Zhang … Hongliang LiCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  19. 2024
    Must Unsupervised Continual Learning Relies on Previous Information?Haoyang Cheng, Haitao Wen, Heqian Qiu … Hongliang LiCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  20. 2024
    Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts AdaptersJiazuo Yu, Yunzhi Zhuge, Lu Zhang … You HeCVPR · Dalian University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +1
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  21. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Multi-Teacher DistillationHaitao Wen, Lili Pan, Yu Dai … Hongliang LiCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  22. 2024
    Dual-Consistency Model Inversion for Non-Exemplar Class Incremental LearningZihuan Qiu, Yi Xu, Fanman Meng … Qingbo WuCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Dalian University of Technology
  23. 2024
    Adaptive knowledge transfer for class incremental learningZhikun Feng, Mian Zhou, Zan Gao … Chuanhui LiPattern Recognition Letters · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
  24. 2024
    Continual Cross-Domain Image Compression via Entropy Prior Guided Knowledge Distillation and Scalable DecodingChenhao Wu, Qingbo Wu, Rui Ma … Heqian QiuIEEE TCSVT · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  25. 2024
    InfoUCL: Learning Informative Representations for Unsupervised Continual LearningLiang Zhang, Jiangwei Zhao, Qingbo Wu … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  26. 2024
    Where to Forget: A New Attention Stability Metric for Continual Learning EvaluationHaojie Wang, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li, Fanman MengSpringer CCIS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  27. 2023
    CUCL: Codebook for Unsupervised Continual LearningCheng Chen, Jingkuan Song, Xiaosu Zhu … Heng Tao ShenACM MM · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  28. 2023
    Contrastive Continuity on Augmentation Stability Rehearsal for Continual Self-Supervised LearningHaoyang Cheng, Haitao Wen, Xiaoliang Zhang … Hongliang LiICCV · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  29. 2023
    Incrementer: Transformer for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation with Knowledge Distillation Focusing on Old ClassChao Shang, Hongliang Li, Fanman Meng … Lanxiao WangCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  30. 2023
    CafeBoost: Causal Feature Boost to Eliminate Task-Induced Bias for Class Incremental LearningBenliu Qiu, Hongliang Li, Haitao Wen … Lili PanCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  31. 2023
    GFR: Generic feature representations for class incremental learningZhichuan Wang, Linfeng Xu, Zihuan Qiu … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  32. 2023
    Class-Prompting Transformer for Incremental Semantic SegmentationZichen Song, Zhaofeng Shi, Chao Shang … Linfeng XuIEEE Access · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  33. 2023
    Dynamic Memory-Based Continual Learning with Generating and ScreeningSiying Tao, Jinyang Huang, Xiang Zhang … Yu GuSpringer LNCS · Hefei University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +1
  34. 2022
    ISM-Net: Mining incremental semantics for class incremental learningZihuan Qiu, Linfeng Xu, Zhichuan Wang … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  35. 2022
    Incremental Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation via Embedding Adaptive-Update and Hyper-class RepresentationGuangchen Shi, Yirui Wu, Jun Liu … Tong LüACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hohai University · Singapore University of Technology and Design · +3
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  36. 2022
    Class Gradient Projection For Continual LearningCheng Chen, Ji Zhang, Jingkuan Song, Lianli GaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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  37. 2020
    Efficient Architecture Search for Continual LearningQiang Gao, Zhipeng Luo, Diego Klabjan, Fengli ZhangTNNLS · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Northwestern University · +1
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  38. 2022
    Continual Referring Expression Comprehension via Dual Modular MemorizationHeng Tao Shen, Cheng Chen, Peng Wang … Jingkuan SongTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  39. 2021
    Remember and Reuse: Cross-Task Blind Image Quality Assessment via Relevance-aware Incremental LearningRui Ma, Hanxiao Luo, Qingbo Wu … Linfeng XuACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  40. 2021
    Accelerating Lifelong Reinforcement Learning via Reshaping Rewards*Kun Chu, Xianchao Zhu, William ZhuIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  41. 2021
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Graph Neural Networks with Experience ReplayFan Zhou, Chengtai CaoAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  42. 2020
    Learning from the Past: Continual Meta-Learning with Bayesian Graph Neural NetworksYadan Luo, Zi Huang, Zheng Zhang … Yang YangAAAI · The University of Queensland · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
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  43. 2018
    Incremental Learning of Single-stage Detectors with Mining Memory NeuronsWei Li, Qingbo Wu, Linfeng Xu, Chao ShangIEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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 lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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