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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
    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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  2. 2026
    E2PL: Effective and Efficient Prompt Learning for Incomplete Multi-view Multi-Label Class Incremental LearningJiajun Chen, Yue Wu, Kai Huang … Guanjie ChengACM Web Conference 2026 · Zhejiang University · Ningbo University
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  3. 2026
    Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Continual Learning: A Neural Tangent Kernel PerspectiveJingren Liu, Zhong Ji, Yunlong Yu … Xuelong LiTPAMI · Tianjin University · Zhejiang University · +3
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  4. 2026
    Experimental demonstration of quantum continual learning with superconducting qubitsChuanyu Zhang, Zhide Lu, Liangtian Zhao … Chao Songnpj Quantum Information · Zhejiang University · ShangHai JiAi Genetics & IVF Institute · +7
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  5. 2026
    Towards Self-Evolving Agents: Enabling Autonomy through Interactive Experience RefinementCheng Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Licheng Wen … Haifeng LiACL · Central South University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
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  6. 2026
    From Experts to Bases: Orthogonal Subspace Mixture for Continual Multimodal Instruction TuningPei Chen, Xilai Wang, Shiqixu … Lingyun SunACL · Zhejiang University
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  7. 2025
    GaussianUpdate: Continual 3D Gaussian Splatting Update for Changing EnvironmentsLin Zeng, Boming Zhao, J Hu … Zhaopeng CuiICCV · Zhejiang University
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  8. 2025
    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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  9. 2025
    Few-Shot Incremental Multi-modal Learning via Touch Guidance and Imaginary Vision SynthesisLina Wei, Yan Ma, Zhongsheng Lin … Dapeng ChenIJCAI · City University · Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department · +4
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  11. 2025
    PECTP: Parameter-Efficient Cross-Task Prompts for Incremental Vision TransformerQian Feng, Hanbin Zhao, Chao Zhang … Hui QianIEEE TCSVT · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University · +2
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  12. 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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  13. 2025
    VIPeR: Visual Incremental Place Recognition With Adaptive Mining and Continual LearningYuhang Ming, Minyang Xu, Xingrui Yang … Wanzeng KongRA-L · Hangzhou Dianzi University · China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center · +2
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  14. 2024
    Low-rank Prompt Interaction for Continual Vision-Language RetrievalW. B. Yan, Ye Wang, Lin Wang … Tao JinACM International Conference on Multimedia · Zhejiang University
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  15. 2024
    Solving the Catastrophic Forgetting Problem in Generalized Category DiscoveryXinzi Cao, Xiawu Zheng, Guanhong Wang … Yonghong TianCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  16. 2024
    Efficient Spiking Neural Networks with Sparse Selective Activation for Continual LearningJiangrong Shen, Wenyao Ni, Qi Xu, Huajin TangAAAI · Zhejiang University · Dalian University of Technology
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  17. 2024
    Summarizing Stream Data for Memory-Constrained Online Continual LearningJianyang Gu, Kai Wang, Wei Jiang, Yang YouAAAI · National University of Singapore · Zhejiang University
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  18. 2024
    NTK-Guided Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningJingren Liu, Zhong Ji, Yanwei Pang, Yunlong YuTIP · Tianjin University · Zhejiang University
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  19. 2023
    Continual Learning for Image Segmentation With Dynamic QueryWeijia Wu, Yuzhong Zhao, Zhuang Li … Mike Zheng ShouIEEE TCSVT · Zhejiang University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  20. 2023
    Effective Continual Learning for Text Classification with Lightweight SnapshotsJue Wang, Dajie Dong, Lidan Shou … Gang ChenAAAI · Zhejiang University
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  21. 2023
    Continual Semantic Segmentation with Automatic Memory Sample SelectionLanyun Zhu, Tianrun Chen, Jianxiong Yin … Jun LiuCVPR · Singapore University of Technology and Design · Zhejiang University · +1
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  22. 2023
    Task Difficulty Aware Parameter Allocation & Regularization for Lifelong LearningWenjin Wang, Yunqing Hu, Qianglong Chen, Yin ZhangCVPR · Zhejiang University
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  23. 2023
    Towards Adversarially Robust Continual LearningTao Bai, Chen Chen, Lingjuan Lyu … Bihan WenICASSP · Nanyang Technological University · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · +2
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  24. 2022
    Continual Federated Learning Based on Knowledge DistillationYuhang Ma, Zhongle Xie, Jue Wang … Lidan ShouIJCAI · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University
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  25. 2022
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Object Detection via Elastic Response DistillationTao Feng, Mang Wang, Hangjie YuanCVPR · Alibaba Group (United States) · Zhejiang University
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  26. 2022
    Meta-attention for ViT-backed Continual LearningMengqi Xue, Haofei Zhang, Jie Song, Mingli SongCVPR · Zhejiang University
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  27. 2021
    When Video Classification Meets Incremental ClassesHanbin Zhao, Xin Qin, Shihao Su … Xi LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Zhejiang University
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  28. 2021
    FedSpeech: Federated Text-to-Speech with Continual LearningZiyue Jiang, Yi Ren, Ming Lei, Zhou ZhaoIJCAI · Zhejiang University · Alibaba Group (United States)
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  29. 2021
    Revisiting Catastrophic Forgetting in Class Incremental LearningZixuan Ni, Haizhou Shi, Siliang Tang … Zhuang, YuetingarXiv · Zhejiang University
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  30. 2019
    Overcoming Long-Term Catastrophic Forgetting Through Adversarial Neural Pruning and Synaptic ConsolidationJian Peng, Bo Tang, Hao Jiang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Central South University · Mississippi State University · +3
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  31. 2021
    Continual Learning for Text Classification with Information Disentanglement Based RegularizationYufan Huang, Yanzhe Zhang, Jiaao Chen … Diyi YangNAACL · Georgia Institute of Technology · Google (United States) · +1
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  32. 2020
    Lifelong Learning with Searchable Extension UnitsWenjin Wang, Yunqing Hu, Yin Zhang⋆arXiv · Zhejiang 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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