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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
    Keep the General, Inject the Specific: Structured Dialogue Fine-Tuning for Knowledge Injection without Catastrophic ForgettingYijie Hong, Xiaofei Yin, Xinzhong Wang … Sufeng Duan2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  2. 2026
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Trento · +5
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  3. 2026
    Randomized neural network with adaptive forward regularization for online task-free class incremental learningJunda Wang, Minghui Hu, Ning Li … Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanNeural Networks · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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  4. 2026
    Incremental Online Learning of Randomized Neural Network With Forward RegularizationJunda Wang, Minghui Hu, Ning Li … Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanTPAMI · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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  5. 2026
    Generalizable and Adaptive Continual Learning Framework for AI-Generated Image DetectionHanyi Wang, Jun Lan, Yaoyu Kang … Shilin WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  6. 2026
    Reinforcement Learning with Semantic Rewards Enables Low-Resource Language Expansion without Alignment TaxZeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Zhou Liu … Wentao ZhangACL · Minzu University of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +4
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  7. 2026
    SLoRA: Balancing Plasticity and Forgetting in Large Language Models for Continual LearningLina Yang, Yusheng Liao, Yanfeng Wang, Yu Guang WangACL · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  8. 2025
    Cross-Domain Attribute Alignment with CLIP: A Rehearsal-Free Approach for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationKerun Mi, Guoliang Kang, Guangyu Li … Chen GongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beihang University · +1
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  9. 2025
    CSTA: Spatial-Temporal Causal Adaptive Learning for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental LearningTieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Chern Hong Lim … Weiyao LinIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Monash University Malaysia · +4
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  10. 2025
    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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  11. 2025
    A3-TTA: Adaptive Anchor Alignment Test-Time Adaptation for Image SegmentationJianghao Wu, Xiangde Luo, Yubo Zhou … Shaoting ZhangTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +1
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  12. 2024
    Delta: A Cloud-assisted Data Enrichment Framework for On-Device Continual LearningChen Gong, Zhenzhe Zheng, Fan Wu … Guihai ChenAnnual International Conference on Mobile Computing and N… · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Beijing Institute of Big Data Research
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  13. 2024
    Rapid context inference in a thalamocortical model using recurrent neural networksWei‐Long Zheng, Zhongxuan Wu, Ali Hummos … Michael M. HalassaNature Communications · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · +3
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  14. 2021
    Task-Specific Normalization for Continual Learning of Blind Image Quality ModelsWeixia Zhang, Kede Ma, Guangtao Zhai, Xiaokang YangTIP · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · City University of Hong Kong · +1
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  15. 2023
    Incremental Image De-raining via Associative MemoryYi Gu, Chao Wang, Jie LiAAAI · Alibaba Group (China) · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  16. 2022
    Geometer: Graph Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Prototype RepresentationBin Lü, Xiaoying Gan, Lina Yang … Xinbing WangKDD · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  17. 2022
    Continual Predictive Learning from VideosGeng Chen, Wendong Zhang, Lu Han … Xiaokang YangCVPR · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tsinghua University
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  18. 2023
    Continual Learning for Blind Image Quality AssessmentWeixia Zhang, Dingquan Li, Chao Ma … Kede MaTPAMI · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
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  19. 2020
    Towards Making the Most of BERT in Neural Machine TranslationJiacheng Yang, Mingxuan Wang, Hao Zhou … Lei LiAAAI · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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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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