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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
    Prompt-Driven Bit Extension Hashing for Continual Cross-Modal RetrievalWenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li … Lei ZhuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong Normal University · Tongji University · +2
  2. 2025
    Evaluating Forgetting in Pretrained Robotic Policy Networks: A Continual Learning Study with OctoYu Ding, Lingqiao Liu, Peng Wang, Lei WangInternational Conference on Digital Image Computing: Tech… · University of Wollongong · The University of Adelaide · +1
  3. 2025
    Learning diverse and adaptive representations for continual learningMingyan Liu, Fei YeNeurocomputing · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · University Town of Shenzhen · +2
  4. 2025
    Online Continual Learning via Dynamic Expandable Recursive ModelFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +1
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  5. 2025
    Incremental Time Series Prediction: A SurveyXianglin Lu, Lisheng Huang, Fengjun Zhang … Sai ZouICML · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · China Electronics Technology Group Corporation · +2
  6. 2025
    D3Net: Dual-Path Decoupling-Distillation for Adaptive Fusion in Continual Egocentric LearningChenghao Qi, Heqian Qiu, Zhaofeng Shi … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  7. 2025
    DBAB: A Dual-Branch Adaptive Balance Framework with Optimized Plasticity Branch for Class-Incremental LearningXinyu Chen, Heqian Qiu, Chenghao Qi … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  8. 2025
    OrthCal: Synergizing Orthogonal Contrastive Learning and Prototype Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningRuisong Dai, Hanwen Zhang, Xinyu Chen … Hongliang LiIEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  9. 2025
    TIPS: Two-level prompt selection for more stability-plasticity balance in continual learningZhikun Feng, Liang Peng, Kang Dang … Jionglong SuPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +3
  10. 2025
    MoE-Adapters++: Toward More Efficient Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models Via Dynamic Mixture-of-Experts AdaptersJiazuo Yu, Zichen Huang, Yunzhi Zhuge … You HeTPAMI · Dalian University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
  11. 2025
    Towards Redundancy-Free Sub-networks in Continual LearningCheng Chen, Lianli Gao, Pengpeng Zeng … Heng Tao ShenPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tongji University
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  12. 2025
    Decoupling Overlapped Feature Spaces: When Continual Learning Meets Fine-Grain ClassificationZhikun Feng, Mingyu Wu, Ping Kuang … Yu LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  13. 2025
    Enhancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Frozen Feature AugmentationShimou Ling, Shengkai Gan, Caoxin Wang … Hongliang LiCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  14. 2025
    Handling Spatial-Temporal Data Heterogeneity for Federated Continual Learning via Tail AnchorHao Yu, Xin Yang, Le Zhang … Qiang YangCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
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  15. 2025
    Online Task-Free Continual Learning via Dynamic Expansionable Memory DistributionFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  16. 2025
    H2ST: Hierarchical Two-Sample Tests for Continual Out-of-Distribution DetectionYuhang Liu, Wenjie Zhao, Yu GuoCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  17. 2025
    Training a Dynamic Growing Mixture Model for Lifelong LearningFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşTNNLS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  18. 2025
    Multi-Attribute Continual Learning for Blind Image Quality AssessmentYunhao Luo, Jinming Liu, Wei Zhou, Xin JinIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technology · +1
  19. 2025
    ZSCIL: Zero-Shot Class Incremental Learning Method for Signal RecognitionWenjie Sun, Rujun Song, Sidi Liang … Bo YanIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  20. 2025
    Online task-free continual learning via Expansible Vision TransformerFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  21. 2025
    Online task-free continual learning via discrepancy mechanismFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşKnowledge-Based Systems · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  22. 2025
    Continual Unsupervised Generative ModelingFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşTPAMI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  23. 2025
    Dynamic Expansion Diffusion Learning for Lifelong Generative ModellingFei Ye, Adrian G. Borş, Kun ZhangAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York · +1
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  24. 2025
    Continual Unsupervised Generative Modelling via Online Optimal TransportFei Ye, Adrian G. Borş, Kun ZhangAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York · +2
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  25. 2025
    Lifelong Scalable Generative System via Online Maximum Mean DiscrepancyFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  26. 2025
    Leveraging Pre-Trained Models for Multimodal Class-Incremental Learning under Adaptive FusionYukun Chen, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Qingbo WuICASSP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  27. 2025
    Adaptively forget with crossmodal and textual distillation for class-incremental video captioningHuiyu Xiong, Lanxiao Wang, Heqian Qiu … Hongliang LiNeurocomputing · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  28. 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
  29. 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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  30. 2025
    Geodesic-Aligned Gradient Projection for Continual Task LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Haitao Wen … Hongliang LiTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  31. 2025
    Plug-In Open-Set Cross-Modal HashingBowen Wang, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li … Jingjing LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Tongji University · University of Technology Sydney · +3
  32. 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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  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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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  36. 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
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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