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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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    IncreFA: Breaking the Static Wall of Generative Model AttributionHaotian Qin, Dongliang Chang, Yueying Gao … Zhanyu MaCVPR
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    A Faster Path to Continual LearningWei Li, Hangjie Yuan, Zixiang Zhao … Tao FengCVPR
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    HAD: Heterogeneity-Aware Distillation for Lifelong Heterogeneous LearningXuerui Zhang, Xuehao Wang, Zhan Zhuang … Yu ZhangCVPR
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    CGL: Advancing Continual GUI Learning via Reinforcement Fine-TuningZhenquan Yao, Zitong Huang, Yihan Zeng … Wangmeng ZuoCVPR
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    EW-DETR: Evolving World Object Detection via Incremental Low-Rank DEtection TRansformerMunish Monga, Vishal Chudasama, Pankaj Wasnik, C. V. JawaharCVPR
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    Is Parameter Isolation Better for Prompt-Based Continual Learning?Jiangyang Li, Chenhao Ding, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongCVPR
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    Affordance-First Decomposition for Continual Learning in Video-Language UnderstandingMengzhu Xu, Hanzhi Liu, Ningkang Peng … Canran XiaoCVPR
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    Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with Dynamic Gradient GuidanceLi, Songze, Gao, Mingyu, Su, Tonghua … Wang, ZhongjieCVPR
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    Prototype-Based Continual Learning with Label-Free Replay Buffer and Cluster Preservation LossAgil Aghasanli, Yi Li, Plamen AngelovCVPR · Lancaster University
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    IL-NeRF: Incremental Learning for Neural Radiance Fields with Camera Pose AlignmentLetian Zhang, Ming Li, Chen Chen, Jie XuCVPR · Middle Tennessee State University · University of Central Florida · +1
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    FM-LoRA: Factorized Low-Rank Meta-Prompting for Continual LearningXiaobing Yu, Jin Yang, Xiao-Ming Wu … Xiaofeng LiuCVPR · Washington University in St. Louis · Yale University
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    LVP-CLIP: Revisiting CLIP for Continual Learning with Label Vector PoolYue Ma, Huantao Ren, Boyu Wang … Qinru QiuCVPR · Syracuse University
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    Exemplar Masking for Multimodal Incremental LearningYi-Lun Lee, Chen-Yu Lee, Wei-Chen Chiu, Yi–Hsuan TsaiCVPR · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Google (United States) · +1
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    Self-Expansion of Pre-trained Models with Mixture of Adapters for Continual LearningHuiyi Wang, Haodong Lu, Lina Yao, Dong GongCVPR · UNSW Sydney · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +1
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    CL-LoRA: Continual Low-Rank Adaptation for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental LearningJiangpeng He, Zhihao Duan, Fengqing ZhuCVPR · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Purdue University West Lafayette
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    CL-MoE: Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Model with Dual Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Xingjiao Wu … Liang HeCVPR · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +1
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    One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly DetectionXiaofan Li, Xin Tan, Zhuo Chen … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +2
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    Task-Agnostic Guided Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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    Dual Consolidation for Pre-Trained Model-Based Domain-Incremental LearningDawei Zhou, Zi-Wen Cai, Han-Jia Ye … De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
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    Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language ModelsWu Bin, Wuxuan Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Mang YeCVPR · Wuhan University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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    Language Guided Concept Bottleneck Models for Interpretable Continual LearningLu Yu, Haoyu Han, Zhe Tao … Chris XuCVPR · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
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    LoRA Subtraction for Drift-Resistant Space in Exemplar-Free Continual LearningXuan Liu, Xiaobin ChangCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University
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    Adapter Merging with Centroid Prototype Mapping for Scalable Class-Incremental LearningTakuma Fukuda, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko KawamotoCVPR · Chiba University · Zuse Institute Berlin
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    Rethinking Query-Based Transformer for Continual Image SegmentationYuchen Zhu, Shi Cheng, Dingyou Wang … Sibei YangCVPR · ShanghaiTech University · Wuhan University
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    Think Small, Act Big: Primitive Prompt Learning for Lifelong Robot ManipulationY. Lawrence Yao, Siao Liu, Haoming Song … Dong WangCVPR · ShangHai JiAi Genetics & IVF Institute · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · +2
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    FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene UnderstandingThanh-Dat Truong, Utsav Prabhu, Bhiksha Raj … Khoa LuuCVPR · Google (United States) · Carnegie Mellon University · +2
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    Multi-Granularity Class Prototype Topology Distillation for Class-Incremental Source-Free Unsupervised Domain AdaptationPeihua Deng, Jiehua Zhang, Xichun Sheng … L. LiCVPR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +4
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    Boosting Domain Incremental Learning: Selecting the Optimal Parameters is All You NeedQiang Wang, Xiang Song, Yuhang He … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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    KAC: Kolmogorov-Arnold Classifier for Continual LearningYusong Hu, Zichen Liang, Fei Yang … Ming‐Ming ChengCVPR · Nankai University
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    Handling Spatial-Temporal Data Heterogeneity for Federated Continual Learning via Tail AnchorHao Yu, Xin Yang, Le Zhang … Qiang YangCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
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    ProtoDepth: Unsupervised Continual Depth Completion with PrototypesPatrick Rim, Hyoungseob Park, Soumik Gangopadhyay … Alex WongCVPR
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    Beyond Background Shift: Rethinking Instance Replay in Continual Semantic SegmentationHongmei Yin, Tingliang Feng, Fan Lyu … Liang WanCVPR · Tianjin University · Institute of Automation
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    Dynamic Integration of Task-Specific Adapters for Class Incremental LearningJiashuo Li, Shaokun Wang, Bo Qian … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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    CoMBO: Conflict Mitigation via Branched Optimization for Class Incremental SegmentationKai Fang, Anqi Zhang, Guangyu Gao … Yunchao WeiCVPR · Beijing Institute of Technology · University of Birmingham · +1
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    Order-Robust Class Incremental Learning: Graph-Driven Dynamic Similarity GroupingGuangda Lai, Yujie Li, Xiangkun Wang … Xin YangCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Southwest Jiaotong University
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    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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    Do Your Best and Get Enough Rest for Continual LearningHankyul Kang, Gregor Seifer, Dong‐Hyun Lee, Jongbin RyuCVPR · Ajou University · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · +1
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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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