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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 test-time adaptation for object detection with adaptive monitoring and randomized restorationShilei Cao, Juepeng Zheng, Yan Liu … Haohuan FuExpert Systems with Applications · Sun Yat-sen University · National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen · +4
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  2. 2026
    TAAM:Inductive Graph-Class Incremental Learning with Task-Aware Adaptive ModulationJingtao Liu, Xi ZhangInternational Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiag… · University of Science and Technology of China
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  3. 2026
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting With Adaptive Transformer Block Expansion in Federated Fine-TuningYujia Huo, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu … Liusheng HuangIEEE Transactions · University of Science and Technology of China · China University of Mining and Technology
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  4. 2026
    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  5. 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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  6. 2025
    Expanding the Category of Classifiers with LLM SupervisionDerui Lyu, Xiangyu Wang, Taiyu Ban … Huanhuan ChenIJCAI · University of Science and Technology of China
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  7. 2025
    Controllable Relation Disentanglement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYuan Zhou, Richang Hong, Yanrong Guo … Hanwang ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Nanyang Technological University · Hefei University of Technology · +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
    GCD: Advancing Vision-Language Models for Incremental Object Detection via Global Alignment and Correspondence DistillationXu Wang, Zilei Wang, Zihan LinAAAI · University of Science and Technology of China
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  10. 2024
    Continual-MAE: Adaptive Distribution Masked Autoencoders for Continual Test-Time AdaptationJiaming Liu, Ran Xu, Senqiao Yang … Shanghang ZhangCVPR · Peking University · University of Hong Kong · +2
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  11. 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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  12. 2024
    TIKP: Text-to-Image Knowledge Preservation for Continual Semantic SegmentationZhidong Yu, Wei Yang, Xike Xie, Zhenbo ShiAAAI · University of Science and Technology of China · Suzhou University of Science and Technology
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  13. 2024
    Hypercorrelation Evolution for Video Class-Incremental LearningSen Liang, Kai Zhu, Wei Zhai … Yang CaoAAAI · University of Science and Technology of China
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  14. 2024
    Attacks on Continual Semantic Segmentation by Perturbing Incremental SamplesZhidong Yu, Wei Yang, Xike Xie, Zhenbo ShiAAAI · University of Science and Technology of China · Suzhou University of Science and Technology
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  15. 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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  16. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue System with Contrastive Distillation on Internal Representations (Student Abstract)Qiancheng Xu, Min Yang, Binzong GengAAAI · Georgia Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +1
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  17. 2023
    Knowledge Transfer in Incremental Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine TranslationKaiyu Huang, Peng Li, Jin Ma … Yang LiuACL · Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +5
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  18. 2022
    LIQA: Lifelong Blind Image Quality AssessmentJianzhao Liu, Wei Zhou, Xin Li … Zhibo ChenIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Science and Technology of China
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  19. 2022
    Self-Sustaining Representation Expansion for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningKai Zhu, Wei Zhai, Yang Cao … Zheng-Jun ZhaCVPR · University of Science and Technology of China · University of Rochester
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  20. 2022
    Lifelong Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Person Re-identification with Coordinated Anti-forgetting and AdaptationZhipeng Huang, Zhizheng Zhang, Cuiling Lan … Zheng-Jun ZhaCVPR · University of Science and Technology of China · Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
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  21. 2022
    Towards Lifelong Learning of Multilingual Text-to-Speech SynthesisMu Yang, Shaojin Ding, Tianlong Chen … Zhangyang WangICASSP · The University of Texas at Dallas · Texas A&M University · +2
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  22. 2022
    Entropy-Based Vocabulary Substitution for Incremental Learning in Multilingual Neural Machine TranslationKaiyu Huang, Peng Li, Jin Ma, Yang LiuEMNLP · Tsinghua University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +5
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  23. 2021
    Continual Learning for Fake Audio DetectionHaoxin Ma, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao … Chenglong WangInterspeech · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Center for Excellence in Education · +1
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  24. 2021
    Iterative Network Pruning with Uncertainty Regularization for Lifelong Sentiment ClassificationBinzong Geng, Min Yang, Fajie Yuan … Ruifeng XuSIGIR · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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  25. 2021
    Self-Promoted Prototype Refinement for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKai Zhu, Yang Cao, Wei Zhai … Zheng-Jun ZhaCVPR · University of Science and Technology of China · Huawei Technologies (United Kingdom)
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  26. 2020
    Continual Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Iterative Network Pruning, Expanding and MaskingBinzong Geng, Fajie Yuan, Qiancheng Xu … Min YangACL · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +7
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  27. 2020
    Memory Protection Generative Adversarial Network (MPGAN): A Framework to Overcome the Forgetting of GANs Using Parameter Regularization MethodsYifan Chang, Wenbo Li, Jian Peng … Yingliang HuangIEEE Access · University of Science and Technology of China · Hefei Institute of Technology Innovation · +3
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  28. 2019
    Extensible Cross-Modal HashingTianyi Chen, Lan Zhang, Shi-cong Zhang … Bai-chuan HuangIJCAI · University of Science and Technology of China · Northeastern University · +1
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  29. 2019
    Learning to Learn without Forgetting By Maximizing Transfer and Minimizing InterferenceMatthew Riemer, Ignacio Cases, Robert Ajemian … Gerald TesauroICLR · IBM (United States) · Stanford University · +2
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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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