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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
    Continual test-time adaptation for object detection with adaptive monitoring and randomized restorationShilei Cao, Juepeng Zheng, Yan Liu … Haohuan FuExpert Systems with Applications · Sun Yat-sen University · National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen · +4
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  2. 2025
    iManip: Skill-Incremental Learning for Robotic ManipulationZexin Zheng, Jia-Feng Cai, Xiao-Ming Wu … Wei-Shi ZhengICCV · Sun Yat-sen University
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  3. 2023
    Task-Distributionally Robust Data-Free Meta-LearningZixuan Hu, Yongxian Wei, Li Shen … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · Nanyang Technological University · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute · +6
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  4. 2025
    Federated Continual Graph LearningYinlin Zhu, Miao Hu, Di WuKDD · Sun Yat-sen University
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  5. 2025
    LoRA Subtraction for Drift-Resistant Space in Exemplar-Free Continual LearningXuan Liu, Xiaobin ChangCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University
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  6. 2025
    SacFL: Self-Adaptive Federated Continual Learning for Resource-Constrained End DevicesZhengyi Zhong, Weidong Bao, Ji Wang … Wei Yang Bryan LimTNNLS · National University of Defense Technology · Sun Yat-sen University · +2
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  7. 2025
    Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learningYuan Meng, Zhenshan Bing, Xiangtong Yao … Alois KnollNature Machine Intelligence · Technical University of Munich · Nanjing University · +2
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  8. 2025
    MKT: A Multi-Stage Knowledge Transfer Framework to Mitigate Catastrophic Forgetting in Multi-Domain Chinese Spelling CorrectionPeng Xing, Yinghui Li, Shirong Ma … Ying ShenEMNLP · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute · Beihang University · +2
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  9. 2025
    A Comprehensive Survey of Forgetting in Deep Learning Beyond Continual LearningZhenyi Wang, Enneng Yang, Li Shen, Heng HuangTPAMI · University of Maryland, College Park · Northeastern University · +1
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  10. 2024
    Continual Learning From a Stream of APIsEnneng Yang, Zhenyi Wang, Li Shen … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · Northeastern University · University of Maryland, College Park · +4
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  11. 2024
    Consistent Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningZhanxin Gao, Jun Cen, Xiaobin ChangCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · +1
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  12. 2024
    Solving the Catastrophic Forgetting Problem in Generalized Category DiscoveryXinzi Cao, Xiawu Zheng, Guanhong Wang … Yonghong TianCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  13. 2024
    Continual Action Assessment via Task-Consistent Score-Discriminative Feature Distribution ModelingYuan-Ming Li, Ling-An Zeng, Jingke Meng, Wei‐Shi ZhengIEEE TCSVT · Sun Yat-sen University
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  14. 2024
    Contrastive Continual Learning with Importance Sampling and Prototype-Instance Relation DistillationJiyong Li, Dilshod Azizov, Yang Li, Shangsong LiangAAAI · Sun Yat-sen University · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  15. 2024
    Generalizable Two-Branch Framework for Image Class-Incremental LearningChao Wu, Xiaobin Chang, Ruixuan WangICASSP · Sun Yat-sen University
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  16. 2023
    Adaptively Integrated Knowledge Distillation and Prediction Uncertainty for Continual LearningKanghao Chen, Sijia Lin, Jianguo Zhang … Ruixuan WangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Sun Yat-sen University · Southern University of Science and Technology
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  17. 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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  18. 2023
    When Prompt-based Incremental Learning Does Not Meet Strong PretrainingYuming Tang, Yi-Xing Peng, Wei‐Shi ZhengICCV · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
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  19. 2023
    CTP: Towards Vision-Language Continual Pretraining via Compatible Momentum Contrast and Topology PreservationHongguang Zhu, Yunchao Wei, Xiaodan Liang … Yao ZhaoICCV · Beijing Jiaotong University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  20. 2023
    Dynamic Residual Classifier for Class Incremental LearningXiuwei Chen, Xiaobin ChangICCV · Sun Yat-sen University · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · +1
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  21. 2023
    Continual Learning via Manifold Expansion ReplayZihao Xu, Xuan Tang, Yufei Shi … Xian WeiIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · East China Normal University · Sun Yat-sen University · +2
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  22. 2023
    Continual learning with Bayesian model based on a fixed pre-trained feature extractorYang Yang, Zhiying Cui, Junjie Xu … Ruixuan WangVisual Intelligence · Sun Yat-sen University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
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  23. 2023
    Quantum continual learning of quantum data realizing knowledge backward transferHaozhen Situ, Tianxiang Lu, Minghua Pan, Lvzhou LiPhysica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications · South China Agricultural University · Guilin University of Electronic Technology · +1
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  24. 2023
    SATS: Self-Attention Transfer for Continual Semantic SegmentationYiqiao Qiu, Yixing Shen, Zhuohao Sun … Ruixuan WangPattern Recognition · Sun Yat-sen University · Wuhan University · +2
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  25. 2022
    Towards Better Plasticity-Stability Trade-off in Incremental Learning: A Simple Linear ConnectorGuoliang Lin, Hanlu Chu, Hanjiang LaiCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University · South China Normal University
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  26. 2022
    Continual Object Detection via Prototypical Task Correlation Guided Gating MechanismBinbin Yang, Xinchi Deng, Shi Han … Xiaodan LiangCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · +1
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  27. 2022
    Learning to Imagine: Diversify Memory for Incremental Learning using Unlabeled DataYu-Ming Tang, Yi-Xing Peng, Wei‐Shi ZhengCVPR · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
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  28. 2021
    Deep Metric Learning for Open World Semantic SegmentationJun Cen, Yun Peng, Junhao Cai … Ming LiuICCV · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Sun Yat-sen University
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  29. 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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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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