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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. 2026
    Continual Learning with Clip Text-Prototype and an Orthogonal Pre-Expanded Classification HeadTong Yu, Kanghao Chen, Jiantao Tan … Ruixuan WangICASSP · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangzhou University · +1
  2. 2026
    CSBoRA: A continual learning method for large language models with true orthogonality and reduced forgettingYuyang Liu, Lai-Man Po, Farrell Hung … Kwok-Wai CheungPattern Recognition · City University of Hong Kong · nLIGHT (United States) · +2
  3. 2026
    FASS: Discrete Fourier Transform Adapters for Speech Separation With Incremental LearningZiye Yang, Xiang SONG, Min Zhao … Israel CohenIEEE Transactions · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +4
  4. 2026
    Miles: Metric Learning With Expandable Subspace for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningKai Jiang, Zisong Lin, Hongyuan Zhang … Xuelong LiTIP · Xidian University · University of Hong Kong · +1
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  5. 2025
    Dual-modality adaptation in vision-language models for continual learningJiahao Zeng, Wentao Zhang, Kanghao Chen … Ruixuan WangNeural Networks · Sun Yat-sen University · GCI Science & Technology (China) · +1
  6. 2024
    Learning New Concepts, Remembering the Old: Continual Learning for Multimodal Concept Bottleneck ModelsSongning Lai, Mingqian Liao, Zhangyi Hu … Yutao YueACM International Conference on Multimedia · Qingdao Center of Resource Chemistry and New Materials · University of Hong Kong · +3
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  7. 2025
    MDFAC: multi-dimensional feature adaptive calibration for generalized few-shot object detectionKailin Xie, Jinxiang Lai, Zijian She … Han ChenComplex & Intelligent Systems · Guangdong University of Technology · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · +1
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  8. 2026
    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
  9. 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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  10. 2025
    Exploring Stability-Plasticity Trade-Offs for Continual Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Chenxing Li, Jiahua Dong … Dong YuIEEE Transactions · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tencent (China) · +3
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  11. 2024
    Prior-free Balanced Replay: Uncertainty-guided Reservoir Sampling for Long-Tailed Continual LearningLei Liu, Li Liu, Yawen CuiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · +3
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  12. 2024
    Consistent Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningZhanxin Gao, Jun Cen, Xiaobin ChangCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · +1
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  13. 2023
    Continual-MAE: Adaptive Distribution Masked Autoencoders for Continual Test-Time AdaptationJiaming Liu, Ran Xu, Senqiao Yang … Shanghang ZhangCVPR · Peking University · University of Hong Kong · +2
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  14. 2023
    Learning a Low-Rank Feature Representation: Achieving Better Trade-Off Between Stability and Plasticity in Continual LearningZhenrong Liu, Yang Li, Yi Gong, Yik‐Chung WuICASSP · Southern University of Science and Technology · University of Hong Kong · +1
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  15. 2022
    Experimentally validated memristive memory augmented neural network with efficient hashing and similarity searchRuibin Mao, Bo Wen, Arman Kazemi … Can LiNature Communications · University of Hong Kong · University of Notre Dame · +5
  16. 2022
    Mixed‐Precision Continual Learning Based on Computational Resistance Random Access MemoryYi Li, Woyu Zhang, Xiaoxin Xu … Dashan ShangAdvanced Intelligent Systems · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Microelectronics · +3
  17. 2022
    Experimentally realized memristive memory augmented neural networkRuibin Mao, Bo Wen, Yahui Zhao … Can LiarXiv · University of Hong Kong · University of Notre Dame · +2
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  18. 2019
    Learning a Unified Classifier Incrementally via RebalancingSaihui Hou, Xinyu Pan, Chen Change Loy … Dahua LinCVPR · University of Science and Technology of China · XLAB (Slovenia) · +3
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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