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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
    FeNeC: Enhancing Continual Learning via Feature Clustering with Neighbor- or Logit-Based ClassificationKamil Książek, Hubert Jastrzebski, Krzysztof Pniaczek … Jacek TaborKnowledge-Based Systems
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    DCFT: Dependency-aware continual learning fine-tuning for sparse LLMsYanzhe Wang, Yizhen Wang, Baoqun YinNeurocomputing · University of Science and Technology of China
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    Re-Fed+: A Better Replay Strategy for Federated Incremental LearningYichen Li, Haozhao Wang, Yining Qi … Ruixuan LiTPAMI · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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    Distributed Multi-Agent Lifelong LearningPrithviraj Tarale, Edward A. Rietman, Hava T. SiegelmannTMLR · University of Massachusetts Amherst
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    Exploring multi-granularity balance strategy for class incremental learning via three-way granular computingYan Xian, Hong Yu, Ye Wang, Guoyin WangBrain Informatics · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chongqing Normal University
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    Class-Aware Prompting for Federated Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFang-Yi Liang, Yu-Wei Zhan, Jiale Liu … Xin-Shun XuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong University · Tsinghua University
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    Safe Continual Domain Adaptation after Sim2Real Transfer of Reinforcement Learning Policies in RoboticsJosip Josifovski, Shangding Gu, Mohammadhossein Malmir … Alois KnollarXiv
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    EFC++: Elastic Feature Consolidation with Prototype Re-balancing for Cold Start Exemplar-free Incremental LearningSimone Magistri, Tomaso Trinci, Albin Soutif-Cormerais … Andrew D. BagdanovarXiv
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    Sample Compression for Self Certified Continual LearningJacob Comeau, Mathieu Bazinet, Pascal Germain, Cem SubakanarXiv
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    Analyzing and Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Parameter Efficient TuningX.R. Li, Weijieying Ren, Wei Qin … Richang HongICASSP · Pennsylvania State University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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    HDMoLE: Mixture of LoRA Experts with Hierarchical Routing and Dynamic Thresholds for Fine-Tuning LLM-based ASR ModelsBingshen Mu, Kun Wei, Qijie Shao … Lei XieICASSP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Tencent (China)
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    Dynamic Object Queries for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionJichuan Zhang, Wei Li, Shuang Cheng … Shengjin WangICASSP · Tsinghua University · Chinese Academy of Sciences
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    Continual Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Audio Deepfake DetectionXiaohuan Chen, Wenhuan Lu, Ruiteng Zhang … Jianguo WeiICASSP · Tianjin University · National Institute of Information and Communications Technology · +1
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    Complementary Learning Subnetworks Towards Parameter-Efficient Class-Incremental LearningDepeng Li, Zhigang Zeng, Wei Dai, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanTKDE · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · China University of Mining and Technology · +1
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    Enhanced Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models with Model FusionHaoyuan Gao, Zicong Zhang, Wei, Yuqi … Weiran HuangICLR
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    Freeze and Learn: Continual Learning with Selective Freezing for Speech Deepfake DetectionDavide Salvi, Viola Negroni, Luca Bondi … Stefano TubaroICASSP · Politecnico di Milano · Robert Bosch (United States)
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    IOR: Inversed Objects Replay for Incremental Object DetectionZijia An, Boyu Diao, Libo Huang … Yongjun XuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology
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    FedFLD: Heterogeneous Federated Learning via Forget-Less DistillationXiaoyang Yi, Jian Zhang, Jing Chen … Xing LiICASSP · Nankai University
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    Multi-Prototype Grouping for Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringLicheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao, Yixing Peng … Yongdong ZhangICASSP · University of Science and Technology of China
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    UIDAPLE: Unsupervised Incremental Domain Adaptation through Adaptive Prompt LearningSamrat Kumar Mukherjee, Tanuj Sur, Saurish Seksaria … Biplab BanerjeeICASSP · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · Chennai Mathematical Institute · +1
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    A Continual Learning Approach for Embodied Question Answering with Generative Adversarial Imitation LearningXin Zeng, Haonan Luo, Zihang Wang … Tianrui LiICASSP · Southwest Jiaotong University · Beihang University
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    Advancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with Virtual Prototype Guidance PromptingXiang Qiu, Huanjia Zhu, Xiaocheng Fang … Hui LinICASSP · South China Normal University
  28. 2025
    Continuously Learning New Words in Automatic Speech RecognitionChristian Huber, Alexander WaibelICASSP · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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    Controllable Forgetting Mechanism for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKirill Paramonov, Mete Özay, Eunju Yang … Umberto MichieliICASSP · Samsung (United Kingdom) · Samsung (South Korea)
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    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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    A New Model for Prototype-based Continual Learning in Hyperspherical SpaceYixin Ren, Yewei Xia, Ke Li … Shuigeng ZhouICASSP · Fudan University · Alibaba Group (China)
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    CapT: A Hierarchical Capsule Representation Learning Approach for Class Continual LearningAnkita Chatterjee, S. Patel, Jayanta Mukhopadhyay, Partha Pratim DasICASSP · Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur · Ashoka University
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    Efficient Prototypical Classifier for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Jingyang Qiao, Yuan Xie … Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
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    Fresh-CL: Feature Realignment through Experts on Hypersphere in Continual LearningZhongyi Zhou, Yaxin Peng, Pengxing Yi … Chaomin ShenICASSP · East China Normal University · Shanghai University
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    Less Over More: Interference Sample Gradient Purification For Parallel Continual LearningTianbo Lu, Jiayao Tan, Linyan Li, Fuyuan HuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Suzhou Institute of Trade & Commerce
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    Prototype Alignment with LoRA Fusion for Class-Incremental LearningWei Zhang, Yuan Xie, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin TanICASSP · East China Normal University
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    A2GP-SF: Enhancing Few-shot Class Incremental Learning via Attribute Generative Prompting and Adaptive Sharpness FlatteningZhiming Chen, De‐Shen Wang, Sisi Fu … Bingzhi ChenICASSP · South China Normal University
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    Enhancing Data-Free Class-Incremental Learning via Image-Centric Dual DistillationFeifei Fu, Zhiwu LuICASSP · Renmin University of China
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    kNN-CL: Enhancing Continual Learning with Nearest Neighbor RetrievalEnzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Hao Chen … Xin ZhouICASSP · Nankai University · Intel (United States) · +1
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    Online Contrastive Continual Learning with Hard Negative SamplesGuanglu Wang, Xinyue Liu, Wentao Yang … Xianchao ZhangICASSP · Dalian University of Technology
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    Towards Differential Optimization: Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental Learning with Slow Learners and Fast AdaptersYinghong Chen, Huanjia Zhu, Jiali Cai … Bingzhi ChenICASSP · South China Normal University
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    ValSub: Subsampling Validation Data to Mitigate Forgetting during ASR PersonalizationHaaris Mehmood, Karthikeyan Saravanan, Pablo Peso Parada … Seokyeong JungICASSP · Samsung (United Kingdom) · Samsung (South Korea)
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    Continual Learning for Multiple ModalitiesHyundong Jin, Eunwoo KimarXiv
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    BEFM: A balanced and efficient fine-tuning model in class-incremental learningLize Liu, Jian Ji, Lei ZhaoKnowledge-Based Systems · Xidian University
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    Sequential Function-Space Variational Inference via Gaussian Mixture ApproximationMenghao Waiyan William Zhu, Pengcheng Hao, E. KuruoğluarXiv
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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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