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The foundational work on continual learning, 1991 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video RetrievalShaokun Wang, Weili Guan, Jizhou Han … Liqiang NieSIGIR · Harbin Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · +2
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  2. 2026
    Rep Deep & Machine Learning: Exemplar-Free Continual Video Action Recognition via Slow-Fast Collaborative LearningXueyi Zhang, Jianhua Zhang, Zheng Li … Huiping ZhuangAAAI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  3. 2025
    Enhancing Online Continual Learning with Plug-and-Play State Space Model and Class-Conditional Mixture of DiscretizationSihao Liu, Yibo Yang, Xiaojie Li … Bernard GhanemCVPR · Harbin Institute of Technology · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · +1
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  4. 2025
    Specifying What You Know or Not for Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  5. 2025
    DCA: Dividing and Conquering Amnesia in Incremental Object DetectionAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  6. 2025
    CMT: A Memory Compression Method for Continual Knowledge Learning of Large Language ModelsDongfang Li, Zetian Sun, Xinshuo Hu … Min ZhangAAAI · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  7. 2025
    Few-Shot Audio-Visual Class-Incremental Learning with Temporal Prompting and RegularizationYawen Cui, Li Liu, Zitong Yu … Xiaopeng HongAAAI · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Great Bay University · +1
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  8. 2025
    FILP-3D: Enhancing 3D few-shot class-incremental learning with pre-trained vision-language modelsWan Xu, Tianyu Huang, Tianyuan Qu … Wangmeng ZuoPattern Recognition · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  9. 2025
    Contrastive Augmented Graph2Graph Memory Interaction for Few Shot Continual LearningBiqing Qi, Junqi Gao, Xinquan Chen … Bowen ZhouIEEE TCSVT · Tsinghua University · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  10. 2025
    HPCR: Holistic Proxy-Based Contrastive Replay for Online Continual LearningHuiwei Lin, Shanshan Feng, Baoquan Zhang … Yunming YeTNNLS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +1
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  11. 2025
    Prompt Customization for Continual LearningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangIEEE TAI · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +6
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  12. 2025
    Exploiting Task Relationships in Continual Learning via Transferability-Aware Task EmbeddingsYanru Wu, Jianning Wang, Xiangyu Chen … Yang LiNeurIPS · Tsinghua University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +3
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  13. 2025
    Enhancing Consistency and Mitigating Bias: A Data Replay Approach for Incremental LearningChenyang Wang, Junjun Jiang, Xingyu Hu … Xiangyang JiNeural Networks · Harbin Institute of Technology · Tsinghua University
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  14. 2024
    Class Balance Matters to Active Class-Incremental LearningZhenhong Huang, Ze Chen, Yuanze Li … Wangmeng ZuoACM MM · Harbin Institute of Technology · Megvii (China) · +2
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  15. 2024
    Enhancing Few-Shot Classification without Forgetting Through Multi-level Contrastive ConstraintsBingzhi Chen, Haoming Zhou, Yishu Liu … Guangming LuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · South China Normal University · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  16. 2024
    QCore: Data-Efficient, On-Device Continual Calibration for Quantized Models - Extended VersionDavid Campos, Bin Yang, Tung Kieu … Christian S. JensenVLDB · Aalborg University · East China Normal University · +1
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  17. 2024
    Interactive Continual Learning: Fast and Slow ThinkingBiqing Qi, Xinquan Chen, Junqi Gao … Bowen ZhouCVPR · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  19. 2024
    SAPT: A Shared Attention Framework for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsWeixiang Zhao, Shilong Wang, Yulin Hu … Wanxiang CheACL · Harbin Institute of Technology · XTC (China)
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  20. 2023
    IOB: integrating optimization transfer and behavior transfer for multi-policy reuseSiyuan Li, Hao Li, Jin Zhang … Chongjie ZhangAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems · Harbin Institute of Technology · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +2
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  21. 2023
    UER: A Heuristic Bias Addressing Approach for Online Continual LearningHuiwei Lin, Shanshan Feng, Baoquan Zhang … Yunming YeACM International Conference on Multimedia · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  22. 2025
    Lifelong-MonoDepth: Lifelong Learning for Multidomain Monocular Metric Depth EstimationJunjie Hu, Chenyou Fan, Liguang Zhou … Tin Lun LamTNNLS · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · South China Normal University · +2
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  23. 2023
    One-Shot Replay: Boosting Incremental Object Detection via Retrospecting One ObjectDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Xiaopeng Hong … Weiping WangAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  24. 2023
    A Neural Span-Based Continual Named Entity Recognition ModelYunan Zhang, Qingcai ChenAAAI · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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  25. 2023
    Balanced Meta Learning and Diverse Sampling for Lifelong Task-Oriented Dialogue SystemsQiancheng Xu, Min Yang, Ruifeng XuAAAI · Georgia Institute of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  26. 2023
    PCR: Proxy-Based Contrastive Replay for Online Class-Incremental Continual LearningHuiwei Lin, Baoquan Zhang, Shanshan Feng … Yunming YeCVPR · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  27. 2023
    Keeping Pace with Ever-Increasing Data: Towards Continual Learning of Code Intelligence ModelsShuzheng Gao, Hongyu Zhang, Cuiyun Gao, Chaozheng WangIEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engine… · Intel (United States) · Harbin Institute of Technology · +3
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  28. 2023
    A Continual Deepfake Detection Benchmark: Dataset, Methods, and EssentialsChuqiao Li, Zhiwu Huang, Danda Pani Paudel … Luc Van GoolWACV · Singapore Management University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +2
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  29. 2024
    Deep Class-Incremental Learning From Decentralized DataXiaohan Zhang, Songlin Dong, Jinjie Chen … Xiaopeng HongTNNLS · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Huawei Technologies (China) · +1
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  30. 2022
    Continual Attentive Fusion for Incremental Learning in Semantic SegmentationGuanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu … Elisa RicciIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Trento · Harbin Institute of Technology · +5
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  31. 2023
    Uncertainty-aware Contrastive Distillation for Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu … Elisa RicciTPAMI · Harbin Institute of Technology · University of Trento · +2
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  32. 2022
    CLLE: A Benchmark for Continual Language Learning Evaluation in Multilingual Machine TranslationHan Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Yang Xiang … Ruifeng XuEMNLP · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +3
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  33. 2021
    Bridging Non Co-occurrence with Unlabeled In-the-wild Data for Incremental Object DetectionNa Dong, Yongqiang Zhang, Mingli Ding, Gim Hee LeeNeurIPS · Harbin Institute of Technology · National University of Singapore
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  34. 2021
    Iterative Network Pruning with Uncertainty Regularization for Lifelong Sentiment ClassificationBinzong Geng, Min Yang, Fajie Yuan … Ruifeng XuSIGIR · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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  35. 2020
    Continual Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Iterative Network Pruning, Expanding and MaskingBinzong Geng, Fajie Yuan, Qiancheng Xu … Min YangACL · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +7
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  36. 2020
    Learning from the Past: Continual Meta-Learning with Bayesian Graph Neural NetworksYadan Luo, Zi Huang, Zheng Zhang … Yang YangAAAI · The University of Queensland · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
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  37. 2020
    Recall and Learn: Fine-tuning Deep Pretrained Language Models with Less ForgettingSanyuan Chen, Yutai Hou, Yiming Cui … Xiangzhan YuEMNLP · Harbin Institute of Technology · Joint Research Centre · +1
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  38. 2019
    A Multi-Task Learning Framework for Overcoming the Catastrophic Forgetting in Automatic Speech RecognitionJiabin Xue, Jiqing Han, Tieran Zheng … Jiaxing GuoarXiv · Harbin Institute of Technology
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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, and only papers with a PDF we can point you at, so every title opens the paper itself. 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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