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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. 2026
    CL-VISTA: Benchmarking Continual Learning in Video Large Language ModelsHaiyang Guo, Yichen Shi, Fei Zhu … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  2. 2025
    Federated Continual Instruction TuningHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuICCV · Advanced Engineering (Czechia) · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics · +1
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  3. 2025
    MCITlib: Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning Library and BenchmarkHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Hongbo Zhao … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  4. 2025
    Continual Learning for Generative AI: From LLMs to MLLMs and BeyondHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuarXiv
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  5. 2025
    PASS++: A Dual Bias Reduction Framework for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhen Cheng, Cheng‐Lin LiuTPAMI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  6. 2024
    DESIRE: Dynamic Knowledge Consolidation for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Fanhu Zeng … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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  7. 2024
    PILoRA: Prototype Guided Incremental LoRA for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Cheng‐Lin LiuECCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
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  8. 2025
    Continual Learning With Knowledge Distillation: A SurveySongze Li, Tonghua Su, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhongjie WangTNNLS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  9. 2024
    Happy: A Debiased Learning Framework for Continual Generalized Category DiscoveryShi-Jie Ma, Fei Zhu, Zhun Zhong … Chenglin LiuNeurIPS
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  10. 2024
    Open-world Machine Learning: A Review and New OutlooksFei Zhu, Shijie Ma, Zhen Cheng … Liu, Cheng-LinarXiv
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  11. 2024
    Large-scale continual learning for ancient Chinese character recognitionYue Xu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
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  13. 2024
    Federated Class-Incremental Learning with Prototype Guided TransformerHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Cheng-Lin LiuarXiv
  14. 2023
    Imitating the oracle: Towards calibrated model for class incremental learningFei Zhu, Zhen Cheng, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuNeural Networks · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
  15. 2021
    Calibration for Non-Exemplar Based Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  16. 2021
    Prototype Augmentation and Self-Supervision for Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Chuang Wang … Cheng‐Lin LiuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  17. 2021
    Class-Incremental Learning via Dual AugmentationFei Zhu, Zhen Cheng, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng-Lin LiuNeurIPS
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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