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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
    DSS-Prompt: Dynamic-Static Synergistic Prompting for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningLinpu He, Yanan Li, Bingze Li … Donghui WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang Lab · +1
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  2. 2025
    TongGu-VL: Advancing Visual-Language Understanding in Chinese Classical Studies through Parameter Sensitivity-Guided Instruction TuningJiahuan Cao, Yang Liu, Peirong Zhang … Lianwen JinACM International Conference on Multimedia · South China University of Technology · Shanghai Medical Information Center
  3. 2025
    Analytic Synaptic Dynamic Scaling Balancer for Multimodal Deepfake Continual DetectionMan Xiao, Jianbin Ye, Bo Liu … Xiaodong WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · National University of Defense Technology · Academy of Military Medical Sciences
  4. 2025
    Forward-Only Continual LearningJiao Chen, Jiayi He, Fangfang Chen … Jianhua TangACM International Conference on Multimedia · South China University of Technology
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  5. 2025
    Remember Past, Anticipate Future: Learning Continual Multimodal Misinformation DetectorsBing Wang, Ximing Li, Mengzhe Ye … Lin WuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Jilin University · Jilin Province Science and Technology Department · +3
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  6. 2025
    Quantifying Samples with Invariance for Source-Free Class Incremental Domain AdaptationZhiyu Ye, Guowen Li, Haoyuan Liang … Juepeng ZhengACM International Conference on Multimedia · Sun Yat-sen University · National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen
  7. 2025
    Serial Over Parallel: Learning Continual Unification for Multi-Modal Visual Object Tracking and BenchmarkingZhangyong Tang, Tianyang Xu, Xuefeng Zhu … Josef KittlerACM International Conference on Multimedia · Jiangnan University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +1
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  8. 2025
    Cross-Domain Attribute Alignment with CLIP: A Rehearsal-Free Approach for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationKerun Mi, Guoliang Kang, Guangyu Li … Chen GongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beihang University · +1
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  9. 2025
    Imagining Vision From Language for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShuo Li, Xingchen Liu, Fang Liu … Xuejian GouACM International Conference on Multimedia · Xidian University
  10. 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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  11. 2025
    PET-GPRA: Rethinking PET with Gradient-Aware Prompting and Router-Free Adapters for Few-shot Class-Incremental LearningYishu Liu, Zhiming Chen, D. Wang … Guangming LuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Harbin Institute of Technology · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  12. 2025
    Towards Effective Open-set Graph Class-incremental LearningJiazhen Chen, Zheng Ma, Sichao Fu … Weihua OuACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Waterloo · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +1
  13. 2025
    Boosting Multi-Modal Alignment: Geometric Feature Separation for Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Chuan Qin, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
  14. 2025
    EBaR: Efficient Buffer and Resetting for Single-Sample Continual Test-Time AdaptationTianyi Ma, Maoying QiaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · University of Technology Sydney
  15. 2025
    Exploring Multimodal Prompts For Unsupervised Continuous Anomaly DetectionMingle Zhou, Jiahui Liu, Jin Wan … Min LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Qilu University of Technology · Shandong Academy of Sciences
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  16. 2025
    Probabilistic Mixture of Hyperbolic Mamba for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYawen Cui, Wenbin Zou, Huiping Zhuang … Lap‐Pui ChauACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · South China University of Technology
  17. 2025
    Retaining Temporal Semantics and Relation Topologies for Continual Weakly-Supervised Audio-Visual Video ParsingJie Fu, Bing‐Kun BaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  18. 2025
    SDP: Spectral-Decomposed Prompting for Continual LearningSiqi Song, Limin Yu, Jimin XiaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool 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. 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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