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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
    Continual learning of multiple cognitive functions with a brain-inspired temporal development mechanismBing Han, feifei Zhao, Yinqian Sun … Yi ZengNational Science Review · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Institute of Automation · +2
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  2. 2023
    Continual Instruction Tuning for Large Multimodal ModelsJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Kuan Zhu … Jinqiao WangTIP · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation
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  3. 2026
    Constructing Enhanced Mutual Information for Online Class-Incremental LearningHuan Zhang, Fan Lyu, Shenghua Fan … Dingwen WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Wuhan University · Institute of Automation
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  4. 2026
    Spectral Disentanglement: Rank-Aware Task Adaptation for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning in LLMsHuanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao … Kang LiuACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  5. 2026
    Harmonizing the Past, Present, and Future: A Null-Space Constrained Region-Specific Method for Continual Learning in LLMsJinhui Chen, Shizhu He, Xingchang Yang … Jun ZhaoACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  6. 2025
    Rethinking Class-Incremental Learning from a Dynamic Imbalanced Learning PerspectiveLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yunlong Wang … Zhaofeng HeIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  7. 2025
    Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language ModelsWu Bin, Wuxuan Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Mang YeCVPR · Wuhan University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  8. 2025
    Language Guided Concept Bottleneck Models for Interpretable Continual LearningLu Yu, Haoyu Han, Zhe Tao … Chris XuCVPR · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
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  9. 2025
    Beyond Background Shift: Rethinking Instance Replay in Continual Semantic SegmentationHongmei Yin, Tingliang Feng, Fan Lyu … Liang WanCVPR · Tianjin University · Institute of Automation
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  10. 2025
    PASS++: A Dual Bias Reduction Framework for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhen Cheng, Cheng‐Lin LiuTPAMI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  11. 2025
    Pseudo Informative Episode Construction for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningChaofan Chen, Xiaoshan Yang, Changsheng XuAAAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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  12. 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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  13. 2024
    Hierarchical Augmentation and Distillation for Class Incremental Audio-Visual Video RecognitionYukun Zuo, Hantao Yao, Liansheng Zhuang, Changsheng XuTPAMI · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  14. 2024
    SEEKR: Selective Attention-Guided Knowledge Retention for Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Kuan Zhu … Jinqiao WangEMNLP · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Institute of Automation · +1
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  15. 2024
    Flexible Weight Tuning and Weight Fusion Strategies for Continual Named Entity RecognitionYahan Yu, Duzhen Zhang, Xiuyi Chen, Chenhui ChuACL · Kyoto University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
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  16. 2024
    Camera-Incremental Object Re-Identification With Identity Knowledge EvolutionHantao Yao, Jifei Luo, Lu Yu, Changsheng XuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
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  17. 2021
    Incremental Concept Learning via Online Generative Memory RecallHuaiyu Li, Weiming Dong, Bao-Gang HuTNNLS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
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  18. 2019
    Continual learning of context-dependent processing in neural networksGuanxiong Zeng, Yang Chen, Bo Cui, Shan YuNature Machine Intelligence · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
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  19. 2019
    Incremental Learning from Scratch for Task-Oriented Dialogue SystemsWeikang Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Qian Li … Zhifei LiACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +3
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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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