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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
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting With Adaptive Transformer Block Expansion in Federated Fine-TuningYujia Huo, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu … Liusheng HuangIEEE Transactions · University of Science and Technology of China · China University of Mining and Technology
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  2. 2025
    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  3. 2025
    CSCL: Bridging the plasticity-stability gap in continuous supervised contrastive learningYi Xiong, Liqi Xiang, Qianyue Cao … Xuehai ZhouNeural Networks · University of Science and Technology of China · Suzhou University of Science and Technology
  4. 2025
    Expanding the Category of Classifiers with LLM SupervisionDerui Lyu, Xiangyu Wang, Taiyu Ban … Huanhuan ChenIJCAI · University of Science and Technology of China
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  5. 2025
    Re-examine all-in-one image restoration: A catastrophic forgetting perspectiveChen Wu, Pu Wang, Zhuoran ZhengPattern Recognition Letters · University of Science and Technology of China · Shandong University · +2
  6. 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
  7. 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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  8. 2025
    GCD: Advancing Vision-Language Models for Incremental Object Detection via Global Alignment and Correspondence DistillationXu Wang, Zilei Wang, Zihan LinAAAI · University of Science and Technology of China
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  9. 2025
    DCFT: Dependency-aware continual learning fine-tuning for sparse LLMsYanzhe Wang, Yizhen Wang, Baoqun YinNeurocomputing · University of Science and Technology of China
  10. 2025
    Multi-Prototype Grouping for Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringLicheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao, Yixing Peng … Yongdong ZhangICASSP · University of 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 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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