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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    Rethinking domain-agnostic continual learning via frequency completeness learningJian Peng, Haitao Zhang, Jing Shen … Haifeng LiInformation Fusion · Space Engineering University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
  2. 2025
    SEDEG:Sequential Enhancement of Decoder and Encoder's Generality for Class Incremental Learning with Small MemoryShaoling Pu, Hongyang Chen, Lingyu Zheng, Zhongwu SunSpringer CCIS · Zhejiang Lab · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  3. 2025
    Generalization-Preserved Learning: Closing the Backdoor to Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Deepfake DetectionXi Zhang, Peiyin Zhu, Chengwei Zhang … Yanming GuoICCV · National University of Defense Technology · National University of Singapore · +4
  4. 2025
    Federated Class-Incremental Learning with New-Class Augmented Self-DistillationZhiyuan Wu, Tianliu He, Sheng Sun … Xuefeng JiangJournal of Computer Science and Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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  5. 2025
    CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKexin Bao, Daichi Zhang, Hansong Zhang … Shiming GeIJCAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +1
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  6. 2025
    CorpusBrain++: A Continual Generative Pre-Training Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Language TasksJiafeng Guo, Changjiang Zhou, Ruqing Zhang … Xueqi ChengACM Transactions · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  7. 2025
    FedPTR: Enhancing Federated Prompt Learning with Server-Side Retraining for Non-IID DataYufeng Chen, Min Liu, Sheng Sun, Zhongcheng LiIJCNN · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  8. 2025
    Activating Sparse Part Concepts for 3D Class Incremental LearningZhenya Tian, Jun Xiao, Lupeng Liu, Haiyong JiangCVPR · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  9. 2025
    Anterograde interference in multitask perceptual learningJia Yang, Fang-Fang Yan, Tingting Wang … Chang‐Bing Huangnpj Science of Learning · Peking University · Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · +6
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  10. 2025
    Low-redundancy distillation for continual learningRuiqi Liu, Boyu Diao, Libo Huang … Yongjun XuPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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  11. 2025
    MoM: Continual Generative Retrieval via Mixture of MemoriesYihan Guo, Yilong Chen, Jiawei Sheng, Tingwen LiuInternational Conference on Information Science, Electric… · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  12. 2025
    Boundary-aware Prototype Augmentation and Dual-level Knowledge Distillation for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental HashingQinghang Su, Dayan Wu, Bo LiKnowledge-Based Systems · Aerospace Information Research Institute · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 2025
    Compression and restoration: exploring elasticity in continual test-time adaptationJingwei Li, Chengbao Liu, Xiwei Bai … Yu WangMachine Learning · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
  16. 2025
    Branch-Tuning: Balancing Stability and Plasticity for Continual Self-Supervised LearningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Cheng‐Lin LiuTNNLS · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  17. 2025
    Dual-Domain Division Multiplexer for General Continual Learning: A Pseudo Causal Intervention StrategyJian-Yong wu, Shaofan Wang, Yanfeng Sun … Qingming HuangTIP · Beijing University of Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  18. 2025
    Cross-Generational Contrastive Continual Learning for 3D Point Cloud Semantic SegmentationYuan He, Guyue Hu, Shan YuSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
  19. 2025
    Similarity-based context aware continual learning for spiking neural networksBing Han, Feifei Zhao, Yang Li … Yi ZengNeural Networks · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  20. 2025
    Dual Balanced Class-Incremental Learning With im-Softmax and Angular RectificationRuicong Zhi, Yicheng Meng, Junyi Hou, Jun WanTNNLS · University of Science and Technology Beijing · National University of Singapore · +4
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. 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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