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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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    SMoLoRa: Exploring and Defying Dual Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Visual Instruction TuningZiqi Wang, C. Che, Qi Wang … Meng WangICCV · Hefei University of Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
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    External Knowledge Injection for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental LearningDawei Zhou, Kaiwen Li, Jingyi Ning … De‐Chuan ZhanICCV · Nanjing University
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    GaussianUpdate: Continual 3D Gaussian Splatting Update for Changing EnvironmentsLin Zeng, Boming Zhao, J Hu … Zhaopeng CuiICCV · Zhejiang University
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    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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    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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    Adversarial Robust Memory-Based Continual LearnerXiaoyue Mi, Fan Tang, Zonghan Yang … Yang LiuICCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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    Ask and Remember: A Questions-Only Replay Strategy for Continual Visual Question AnsweringImad Eddine Marouf, Enzo Tartaglione, Stéphane Lathuilière, Joost van de WeijerICCV · Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information · Universitat de Barcelona
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    RainbowPrompt: Diversity-Enhanced Prompt-Evolving for Continual LearningKiseong Hong, Gyeong-Hyeon Kim, Eunwoo KimICCV · Chung-Ang University
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    Revisiting Pool-Based Prompt Learning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYongwei Jiang, Yixiong Zou, Yuhua Li, Ruixuan LiICCV · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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    Joint Diffusion Models in Continual LearningPaweł Skierś, Kamil Rafał DejaICCV · Warsaw University of Technology · IDEA of Development Foundation
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    CODE-CL: Conceptor-Based Gradient Projection for Deep Continual LearningMarco Paul E. Apolinario, Sakshi Choudhary, Kaushik RoyICCV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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    Achieving More with Less: Additive Prompt Tuning for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental LearningHao Chen, Ping Wang, Zihan Zhou … Yu–Gang JiangICCV · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing · American Public University System
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    Can Synthetic Images Conquer Forgetting? Beyond Unexplored Doubts in Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJunsu Kim, Yunhoe Ku, Seungryul BaekICCV · Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology · MemBrain (Czechia)
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    PLAN: Proactive Low-Rank Allocation for Continual LearningX Wang, Zhan Zhuang, Y ZhangICCV · Southern University of Science and Technology
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    RICO: Two Realistic Benchmarks and an In-Depth Analysis for Incremental Learning in Object DetectionMatthias Neuwirth-Trapp, Maarten Bieshaar, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van GooICCV · Robert Bosch (India) · Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
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    Seeing 3D Through 2D Lenses: 3D Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Cross-Modal Geometric RectificationTuo Xiang, Xuemiao Xu, Bangzhen Liu … Shengfeng HeICCV · South China University of Technology · Singapore Management University
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    Instruction-Grounded Visual Projectors for Continual Learning of Generative Vision-Language ModelsHyundong Jin, Hyung Jin Chang, Eunwoo KimICCV · Chung-Ang University · University of Birmingham
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    Continual Adaptation: Environment-Conditional Parameter Generation for Object Detection in Dynamic ScenariosLi Deng, Aming Wu, Yang Li … Yahong HanICCV · Tianjin University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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    Hierarchical Visual Prompt Learning for Continual Video Instance SegmentationJiahua Dong, Hui Yin, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanICCV · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Hunan University · +3
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    Infusing Fine-Grained Visual Knowledge to Vision-Language ModelsNikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis, Kaifeng Chen, Andre B. Araujo, Ondřej ChumICCV · Czech Technical University in Prague · Google (United States) · +1
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    Progressive Homeostatic and Plastic Prompt Tuning for Audio-Visual Multi-Task Incremental LearningJiong Yin, Li Li, Jiehua Zhang … Xichun ShengICCV · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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    Does Prior Data Matter? Exploring Joint Training in the Context of Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShiwon Kim, Dongjun Hwang, Sungwon Woo, Rita SinghICCV · Yonsei University · Sogang University · +1
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    ESSENTIAL: Episodic and Semantic Memory Integration for Video Class-Incremental LearningJongseo Lee, Kyungho Bae, Kyle Min … Jinwoo ChoiICCV · Kyung Hee University · Dansk Sygehus Institut · +1
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    Incremental Object Detection with Prompt-Based MethodsMatthias Neuwirth–Trapp, Maarten Bieshaar, Danda Pani Paudel, Luc Van GoolICCV · Robert Bosch (India) · Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
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    LoRA-Loop: Closing the Synthetic Replay Cycle for Continual VLM LearningKaihong Wang, Donghyun Kim, Margrit BetkeICCV · Boston University · Korea University
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    PROL: Rehearsal Free Continual Learning in Streaming Data via Prompt Online LearningM. Anwar Ma’sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Savitha Ramasamy … Ryszard KowalczykICCV · University of South Australia · Institute for Infocomm Research
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    Continual Personalization for Diffusion ModelsYu-Chien Liao, J.C. Chen, Chi-Pin Huang … Yu-Chiang Frank WangICCV · National Taiwan University · Qualcomm (United Kingdom)
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    The Inter-Intra Modal Measure: A Predictive Lens on Fine-Tuning Outcomes in Vision-Language ModelsLaura Niss, Kevin Vogt-Lowell, Theodoros TsiligkaridisICCV · MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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    CRAM: Large-Scale Video Continual Learning with Bootstrapped CompressionShivani Mall, João F. HenriquesICCV · Oxford Research Group
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    DuET: Dual Incremental Object Detection via Exemplar-Free Task ArithmeticMunish Monga, Vishal M. Chudasama, P. Wasnik, Biplab BanerjeeICCV
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    TWIST&SCOUT:GroundingMultimodal LLM-Experts by Forget-Free TuningAritra Bhowmik, Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, D.C. Koelma … Cees G. M. SnoekICCV
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    CoinSeg: Contrast Inter- and Intra- Class Representations for Incremental SegmentationZekang Zhang, Guangyu Gao, Jianbo Jiao … Yunchao WeiICCV
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    Class-Incremental Learning using Diffusion Model for Distillation and ReplayQuentin Jodelet, Xin Liu, Yin Jun Phua, Tsuyoshi MurataICCV · Tokyo Institute of Technology · National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
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    A Comprehensive Empirical Evaluation on Online Continual LearningAlbin Soutif--Cormerais, Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu … Hamed HematiICCV · Computer Vision Center · University of Pisa · +2
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    Multimodal Parameter-Efficient Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningMarco D’Alessandro, Alberto Valdés Alonso, Enrique Calabrés, Mikel GalarICCV · Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) · Universidad de Navarra
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    Adapt Your Teacher: Improving Knowledge Distillation for Exemplar-free Continual LearningFilip Szatkowski, Mateusz Pyla, Marcin Przewięźlikowski … T. P. TrzcinskiICCV · Warsaw University of Technology · Integrated Detector Electronics AS (Norway) · +5
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    Continual Evidential Deep Learning for Out-of-Distribution DetectionEduardo Aguilar, Bogdan Raducanu, Petia Radeva, Joost van de WeijerICCV · Universidad Católica del Norte · Computer Vision Center
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    Clustering-based Domain-Incremental LearningChristiaan Lamers, René Vidal, Nabil Belbachir … Paris V. GiampourasICCV · NORCE Research AS · University of Pennsylvania · +1
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    Improving Replay Sample Selection and Storage for Less Forgetting in Continual LearningDaniel Brignac, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Abhijit MahalanobisICCV · University of Arizona · University of Central Florida
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    On the Effectiveness of LayerNorm Tuning for Continual Learning in Vision TransformersThomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini, Karteek Alahari … Elisa RicciICCV · University of Trento · Institut polytechnique de Grenoble · +5
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  47. 2023
    Instant Continual Learning of Neural Radiance FieldsRyan Po, Zhengyang Dong, Alexander W. Bergman, Gordon WetzsteinICCV · Stanford University
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    Looking through the past: better knowledge retention for generative replay in continual learningValeriya Khan, Sebastian Cygert, Bartłomiej Twardowski, T. P. TrzcinskiICCV · Integrated Detector Electronics AS (Norway) · Corporación Universitaria de Colombia Ideas · +4
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    Memory Population in Continual Learning via Outlier EliminationJulio Hurtado, Alain Raymond-Sáez, Vladimir Araujo … Davide BacciuICCV · University of Pisa · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · +1
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  50. 2023
    ScrollNet: Dynamic Weight Importance for Continual LearningFei Yang, Kai Wang, Joost van de WeijerICCV · Computer Vision Center
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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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