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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    DesCLIP: Robust Continual Learning via General Attribute Descriptions for VLM-Based Visual RecognitionChi-Yuan He, Zi-Huan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hongliang LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  2. 2025
    Unleash the Power of Vision-Language Models by Visual Attention Prompt and Multimodal InteractionWenyao Zhang, Le Wu, Zequn Zhang … Wenjun ZengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  3. 2025
    CMoA: Contrastive Mixture of Adapters for Generalized Few-Shot Continual LearningYawen Cui, Jian Zhao, Zitong Yu … Xuelong LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  4. 2025
    Source-Free Elastic Model Adaptation for Vision-and-Language NavigationMingkui Tan, Peihao Chen, Hongyan Zhi … Runhao ZengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  5. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning for Image Classification With Out-of-Distribution Task IdentificationXusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Xialei Liu, Ming-Ming ChengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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    Visual Class Incremental Learning With Textual Priors Guidance Based on an Adapted Vision-Language ModelWentao Zhang, Tong Yu, Ruixuan Wang … Xiaobo YangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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    Enhanced Reasoning via Multimodal LLMs and Collaborative InferenceZ. Wen, Minkui Tan, Yaowei Wang … Qi WuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  8. 2025
    Plug-In Open-Set Cross-Modal HashingBowen Wang, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li … Jingjing LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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    Memory-Enhanced Confidence Calibration for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationJia-Ping Yu, Muli Yang, Aming Wu, Cheng DengIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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    Boosting Dataset Distillation With the Assistance of Crucial Samples for Visual LearningXiaodan Li, Yao Zhu, Yuefeng Chen … Shuhui WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  12. 2025
    Dual-Attention Transformers for Class-Incremental Learning: A Tale of Two MemoriesShaofan Wang, Weixing Wang, Yanfeng Sun … Baocai YinIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  13. 2025
    Self-Reflection Neural Network for Class-Incremental Object CountingShengqin Jiang, Linfei Li, Fengna Cheng … Qing-Shan LiuIEEE Trans. Multimedia
  14. 2025
    WI3D: Weakly Incremental 3D Detection via Vision Foundation ModelsMingsheng Li, Sijin Chen, Shengji Tang … Tao ChenIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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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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