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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
    Complementary Asymmetric Representation Learning for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningRunhang Chen, Xiao‐Yuan Jing, Xiaodong JiaACM Transactions · Wuhan University · Henan University of Engineering · +2
  2. 2026
    FedFST: Mitigating Spectral Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Graph Continual LearningHanyao Guo, Zihan Tan, Wenke Huang … Mang YeKDD · Wuhan University · Nanyang Technological University
  3. 2026
    Constructing Enhanced Mutual Information for Online Class-Incremental LearningHuan Zhang, Fan Lyu, Shenghua Fan … Dingwen WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Wuhan University · Institute of Automation
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  4. 2026
    A Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning Method Using Graph Neural NetworksYuqian Ma, Youfa Liu, Bo DuTIP · Wuhan University
  5. 2026
    LoRASculpt: Harmonious Low-Rank Adaptation for Multimodal Large Language ModelsJian Liang, Wenke Huang, Xianda Guo … Mang YeTPAMI · Wuhan University
  6. 2025
    Rethinking domain-agnostic continual learning via frequency completeness learningJian Peng, Haitao Zhang, Jing Shen … Haifeng LiInformation Fusion · Space Engineering University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
  7. 2025
    Class-aware prototype augmentation and decoupled feature distillation for class-incremental learningChengdong Wang, Yangjun Ou, Xianfang Tang … Rui YanPattern Recognition · Hefei University of Technology · Wuhan Textile University · +2
  8. 2025
    BiaMix Contrastive Learning and Memory Similarity Distillation in Class-Incremental LearningMang Ye, Wenke Huang, Zekun Shi … Bo DuCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology · Wuhan University · Hubei University of Technology
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  9. 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
  10. 2025
    STCKGE: Continual knowledge graph embedding based on spatial transformationXinyan Wang, Jinshuo Liu, Kaijian Xie … Jeff Z. PanKnowledge-Based Systems · Wuhan University of Technology · Wuhan University · +1
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  11. 2025
    Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language ModelsWu Bin, Wuxuan Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Mang YeCVPR · Wuhan University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  13. 2025
    Rethinking Query-Based Transformer for Continual Image SegmentationYuchen Zhu, Shi Cheng, Dingyou Wang … Sibei YangCVPR · ShanghaiTech University · Wuhan University
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  14. 2025
    Interweaving Memories of a Siamese Large Language ModelXin Song, Zhenwei Xue, Guoxiu He … Wei LuAAAI · East China Normal University · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · +1
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  15. 2025
    MOTION: Multi-Sculpt Evolutionary Coarsening for Federated Continual Graph LearningFrank Wan, Fengyuan Ran, Ruikang Zhang … Mang YeNeurIPS · Wuhan University · Tongji University · +2
  16. 2025
    Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMsJun Wang, Liang Ding, Shuai Wang … Bo DuNeurIPS · The University of Sydney · Wuhan University · +2
  17. 2024
    Defying catastrophic forgetting via influence functionRui Gao, Weiwei LiuArtificial Intelligence · Wuhan University
  18. 2024
    Adaptive Knowledge Matching for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningRunhang Chen, Xiao‐Yuan Jing, Haowen ChenSpringer LNCS · Wuhan University · Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology · +1
  19. 2024
    Sharpness-aware gradient guidance for few-shot class-incremental learningRunhang Chen, Xiao‐Yuan Jing, Fei Wu, Hao ChenKnowledge-Based Systems · PLA Information Engineering University · Wuhan University · +2
  20. 2024
    Jointly Optimized Classifiers for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningSichao Fu, Qinmu Peng, Xiaorui Wang … Xinge YouIEEE TETCI · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Jingdong (China) · +2
  21. 2024
    Generalizable Heterogeneous Federated Cross-Correlation and Instance Similarity LearningWenke Huang, Mang Ye, Zekun Shi, Bo DuTPAMI · Wuhan University
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  22. 2023
  23. 2023
    Task-specific parameter decoupling for class incremental learningRunhang Chen, Xiao‐Yuan Jing, Fei Wu … Yaru HaoInformation Sciences · Wuhan University · Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology · +2
  24. 2023
    More task-balanced Class-Incremental LearningJunzhi Chen, Tian Wang, Deyuan Liu … Hichem SoussiYouth Academic Annual Conference of Chinese Association o… · Beihang University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
  25. 2023
    A Continual Learning Method for Reducing Class Interference Based on ReplayZhibo Xu, Tian Wang, Jian Wang … Hichem SnoussiChinese Control Conference (CCC) · Beihang University · Wuhan University · +6
  26. 2023
    Continuous Learning for Blind Image Quality Assessment with Contrastive TransformerJifan Yang, Zhongyuan Wang, Baojin Huang, Lianbing DengICASSP · Wuhan University
  27. 2023
    SATS: Self-Attention Transfer for Continual Semantic SegmentationYiqiao Qiu, Yixing Shen, Zhuohao Sun … Ruixuan WangPattern Recognition · Sun Yat-sen University · Wuhan University · +2
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  28. 2022
    Learn from Others and Be Yourself in Heterogeneous Federated LearningWenke Huang, Mang Ye, Bo DuCVPR · National Institute of Japanese Literature · Wuhan University
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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