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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
    PAL: Prompting Analytic Learning with Missing Modality for Multi-Modal Class-Incremental LearningXianghu Yue, Yiming Chen, Xueyi Zhang … Haizhou LiPattern Recognition · Tianjin University · National University of Singapore · +4
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  2. 2026
    CASP: Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with CLS Token Attention Steering PromptsShuai Huang, Xuhan Lin, Yuwu LuPattern Recognition · South China Normal University
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  3. 2025
    MoTiC: Momentum Tightness and Contrast for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZeyu He, Shuai Huang, Yuwu Lu, Ming ZhaoPattern Recognition · Guilin University of Electronic Technology · South China Normal University
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  4. 2025
    Buffer-free Class-Incremental Learning with Out-of-Distribution DetectionSrishti Gupta, Daniele Angioni, Maura Pintor … Battista BiggioPattern Recognition · University of Cagliari · Sapienza University of Rome · +3
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  5. 2025
    GaitAdapt: Continual Learning for Evolving Gait RecognitionJingjie Wang, Shun-Li Zhang, Xiang Wei, Senmao TianPattern Recognition
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  6. 2025
    Towards Redundancy-Free Sub-networks in Continual LearningCheng Chen, Lianli Gao, Pengpeng Zeng … Heng Tao ShenPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tongji University
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  7. 2025
    Online task-free continual learning via Expansible Vision TransformerFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  8. 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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  9. 2025
    CIT: Rethinking Class-incremental Semantic Segmentation with a Class Independent TransformationJinchao Ge, Bowen Zhang, Akide Liu … Yang ZhaoPattern Recognition · The University of Adelaide · Monash University · +1
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  10. 2025
    LoRA-Based Continual Learning with Constraints on Critical Parameter ChangesShimou Ling, Liang Zhang, Jiangwei Zhao … Hongliang LiPattern Recognition
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  11. 2025
    FILP-3D: Enhancing 3D few-shot class-incremental learning with pre-trained vision-language modelsWan Xu, Tianyu Huang, Tianyuan Qu … Wangmeng ZuoPattern Recognition · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  12. 2024
    OpenCIL: Benchmarking Out-of-Distribution Detection in Class-Incremental LearningWenjun Miao, Guansong Pang, Trong-Tung Nguyen … Xiao BaiPattern Recognition
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  14. 2023
    Dynamic Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Multi-Level PrototypesShunxin Guo, Hongsong Wang, Xin GengPattern Recognition
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  15. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning with Self-Supervised Pre-Training and Prototype LearningWenzhuo Liu, WU Xin-jian, Fei Zhu … Cheng‐Lin LiuPattern Recognition
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  16. 2023
    SATS: Self-Attention Transfer for Continual Semantic SegmentationYiqiao Qiu, Yixing Shen, Zhuohao Sun … Ruixuan WangPattern Recognition · Sun Yat-sen University · Wuhan University · +2
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  17. 2022
    DIODE: Dilatable Incremental Object DetectionCan Peng, Kun Zhao, Sam Maksoud … Brian C. LovellPattern Recognition · The University of Queensland
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  18. 2022
    Incremental Learning from Low-labelled Stream Data in Open-Set Video Face RecognitionEric López‐López, Xosé M. Pardo, Carlos V. RegueiroPattern Recognition · Universidade da Coruña · Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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  19. 2022
    Multi-View Correlation Distillation for Incremental Object DetectionDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Aoting Zhang … Qixiang YePattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +1
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  20. 2022
    Instance exploitation for learning temporary concepts from sparsely labeled drifting data streamsŁukasz Korycki, Bartosz KrawczykPattern Recognition · Virginia Commonwealth University
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  21. 2021
    FoCL: Feature-Oriented Continual Learning for Generative ModelsQicheng Lao, Mehrzad Mortazavi, Marzieh S. Tahaei … Mohammad HavaeiPattern Recognition · Sichuan University · West China Medical Center of Sichuan University · +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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