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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
    StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video RetrievalShaokun Wang, Weili Guan, Jizhou Han … Liqiang NieSIGIR · Harbin Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · +2
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  2. 2026
    Singular Value Fine-Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhiwu Wang, Yichen Wu, Renzhen Wang … Deyu MengIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · City University of Hong Kong
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  3. 2026
    We Need a More Robust Classifier: Dual Causal Learning Empowers Domain-Incremental Time Series ClassificationZhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Xuan Tang … Binwu WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Northeastern University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +2
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  4. 2026
    Dual-CBA: Improving Online Continual Learning via Dual Continual Bias Adaptors From a Bi-level Optimization PerspectiveHong Wang, Renzhen Wang, Yichen Wu … Deyu MengTPAMI · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Harvard University · +1
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  5. 2026
    Key-Value Pair-Free Continual Learner via Task-Specific Prompt-PrototypeHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Zhengji Li … Fengyu CongNeural Networks · University of Jyväskylä · National University of Singapore · +3
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  6. 2025
    Learn by Reasoning: Analogical Weight Generation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJizhou Han, Chenhao Ding, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Shenzhen University · +2
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  7. 2025
    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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  8. 2025
    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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  9. 2025
    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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  10. 2025
    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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  11. 2025
    ALADE-SNN: Adaptive Logit Alignment in Dynamically Expandable Spiking Neural Networks for Class Incremental LearningWenyao Ni, Jiangrong Shen, Qi Xu, Huajin TangAAAI · Zhejiang University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +1
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  12. 2025
    Prompt Customization for Continual LearningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangIEEE TAI · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +6
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  13. 2025
    Analogical Augmentation and Significance Analysis for Online Task-Free Continual LearningSonglin Dong, Yingjie Chen, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Nanyang Technological University
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  14. 2024
    CEAT: Continual Expansion and Absorption Transformer for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningSonglin Dong, Xinyuan Gao, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Nanyang Technological University
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  15. 2024
    Evolving Parameterized Prompt Memory for Continual LearningMuhammad Rifki Kurniawan, Xiang Song, Zhiheng Ma … Xing WeiAAAI · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  16. 2024
    Non-exemplar Domain Incremental Object Detection via Learning Domain BiasXiang Song, Yuhang He, Songlin Dong, Yihong GongAAAI · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  17. 2021
    Relational Experience Replay: Continual Learning by Adaptively Tuning Task-Wise RelationshipQuanziang Wang, Renzhen Wang, Yuexiang Li … Deyu MengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Tencent (China) · +1
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  18. 2023
    Towards Fast and Stable Federated Learning: Confronting Heterogeneity via Knowledge AnchorJinqian Chen, Jihua Zhu, Qinghai ZhengACM MM · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Fuzhou University
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  19. 2023
    CBA: Improving Online Continual Learning via Continual Bias AdaptorQuanziang Wang, Renzhen Wang, Yichen Wu … Deyu MengICCV · Xi'an Jiaotong University · City University of Hong Kong · +2
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  20. 2023
    CILIATE: Towards Fairer Class-Based Incremental Learning by Dataset and Training RefinementXuanqi Gao, Juan Zhai, Shiqing Ma … Shiwei WangACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing a… · Xi'an Jiaotong University · University of Massachusetts Boston · +1
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  21. 2023
    A Continual Deepfake Detection Benchmark: Dataset, Methods, and EssentialsChuqiao Li, Zhiwu Huang, Danda Pani Paudel … Luc Van GoolWACV · Singapore Management University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +2
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  22. 2024
    Deep Class-Incremental Learning From Decentralized DataXiaohan Zhang, Songlin Dong, Jinjie Chen … Xiaopeng HongTNNLS · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Huawei Technologies (China) · +1
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  23. 2022
    Learning to Transfer with von Neumann Conditional DivergenceAmmar Shaker, Shujian Yu, Daniel Oñoro-RubioAAAI · Sharp Laboratories of Europe (United Kingdom) · Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate · +2
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  24. 2021
    Training Networks in Null Space of Feature Covariance for Continual LearningShipeng Wang, Xiaorong Li, Jian Sun, Zongben XuCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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  25. 2021
    Layerwise Optimization by Gradient Decomposition for Continual LearningShixiang Tang, Dapeng Chen, Jinguo Zhu … Wanli OuyangCVPR · The University of Sydney · Group Sense (China) · +2
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  26. 2020
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXiaoyu Tao, Xiaopeng Hong, Xinyuan Chang … Yihong GongCVPR · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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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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