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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
    PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and ToolkitMuhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier StrickerWACV · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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  2. 2026
    CADE: Continual Weakly-supervised Video Anomaly Detection with EnsemblesSatoshi Hashimoto, Tatsuya Konishi, Tomoya Kaichi … Mori KurokawaWACV · KDDI Research (Japan)
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  3. 2026
    Forget Less by Learning Together through Concept ConsolidationArjun Ramesh Kaushik, Naresh Kumar Devulapally, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande … Venu GovindarajuWACV
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  4. 2025
    Online-LoRA: Task-Free Online Continual Learning via Low Rank AdaptationXiwen Wei, Guihong Li, Radu MarculescuWACV · The University of Texas at Austin
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  5. 2025
    Dam: Dynamic Adapter Merging for Continual Video QA LearningFeng Cheng, Ziyang Wang, Yi-Lin Sung … Gedas BertasiusWACV · University of North Carolina Health Care
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  6. 2022
    CL-Cross VQA: A Continual Learning Benchmark for Cross-Domain Visual Question AnsweringYao Zhang, Haokun Chen, Ahmed Frikha … Volker TrespWACV · LMU Klinikum · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · +1
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  7. 2025
    One VLM to Keep it Learning: Generation and Balancing for Data-free Continual Visual Question AnsweringDeepayan Das, Davide Talon, Massimiliano Mancini … Elisa RicciWACV · University of Trento · Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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  8. 2025
    Strategic Base Representation Learning via Feature Augmentations for Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningParinita Nema, Vinod K KurmiWACV · Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
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  9. 2025
    Covariance-Based Space Regularization for Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningYijie Hu, Guanyu Yang, Zhaorui Tan … Qiufeng WangWACV · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · University of Liverpool · +1
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  10. 2025
    Continual Learning in 3D Point Clouds: Employing Spectral Techniques for Exemplar SelectionHossein Resani, Behrooz Nasihatkon, Mohammadreza Alimoradi JaziWACV · K. N. Toosi University of Technology
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  11. 2025
    Exploring the Stability Gap in Continual Learning: The Role of the Classification HeadWojciech Łapacz, Daniel Marczak, Filip Szatkowski, T. P. TrzcinskiWACV · Warsaw University of Technology
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  12. 2025
    Semantic Prompting with Image Token for Continual LearningJisu Han, Jaemin Na, Wonjun HwangWACV · Ajou University
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  13. 2025
    Continual Learning of Personalized Generative Face Models with Experience ReplayAnnie N. Wang, Luchao Qi, Roni SenguptaWACV · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · University of North Carolina Health Care
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  14. 2025
    ReFu: Recursive Fusion for Exemplar-Free 3D Class-Incremental LearningYi Yang, Lei Zhong, Huiping ZhuangWACV · University of Edinburgh · South China University of Technology
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  15. 2025
    TACLE: Task and Class-Aware Exemplar-Free Semi-Supervised Class Incremental LearningJayateja Kalla, Rohit Kumar, Soma BiswasWACV · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
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  16. 2025
    Modality-Incremental Learning with Disjoint Relevance Mapping Networks for Image-Based Semantic SegmentationNiharika Hegde, Shishir Muralidhara, René Schuster, Didier StrickerWACV
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  17. 2024
    Universal Test-time Adaptation through Weight Ensembling, Diversity Weighting, and Prior CorrectionRobert A. Marsden, Mario Döbler, Bin YangWACV · University of Stuttgart
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  18. 2024
    Steering Prototypes with Prompt-tuning for Rehearsal-free Continual LearningZhuowei Li, L. Zhao, Zizhao Zhang … Dimitris MetaxasWACV · Google (United States)
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  19. 2024
    Plasticity-Optimized Complementary Networks for Unsupervised Continual LearningAlex Gomez-Villa, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Kai Wang, Joost van de WeijerWACV · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Barcelona Supercomputing Center · +1
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  20. 2024
    Kaizen: Practical self-supervised continual learning with continual fine-tuningChi Ian Tang, Lorena Qendro, Dimitris Spathis … Akhil MathurWACV · University of Cambridge · Nokia (United Kingdom)
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  21. 2024
    Effective Restoration of Source Knowledge in Continual Test Time AdaptationFahim Faisal Niloy, Sk Miraj Ahmed, Dripta S. Raychaudhuri … Amit K. Roy–ChowdhuryWACV · University of California, Riverside · University of Michigan
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  22. 2024
    Layer-wise Auto-Weighting for Non-Stationary Test-Time AdaptationJunyoung Park, Jin Kim, Hyeongjun Kwon … Kwanghoon SohnWACV · Yonsei University · Korea Institute of Science and Technology
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  23. 2024
    Wakening Past Concepts without Past Data: Class-Incremental Learning from Online PlacebosYaoyao Liu, Yingying Li, Bernt Schiele, Qianru SunWACV · Johns Hopkins University · Max Planck Institute for Informatics · +2
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  24. 2024
    An Analysis of Initial Training Strategies for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningGrégoire Petit, Michaël Soumm, Eva Feillet … Céline HudelotWACV · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies · +5
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  25. 2024
    Continual Learning of Unsupervised Monocular Depth from VideosHemang Chawla, Arnav Varma, Elahe Arani, Bahram ZonoozWACV · Eindhoven University of Technology · TomTom (Netherlands)
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  26. 2024
    Meta-Learned Attribute Self-Interaction Network for Continual and Generalized Zero-Shot LearningVinay Kumar Verma, Nikhil Mehta, Kevin J Liang … Lawrence CarinWACV · Duke University · Kootenay Association for Science & Technology · +1
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  27. 2024
    MoP-CLIP: A Mixture of Prompt-Tuned CLIP Models for Domain Incremental LearningJulien Nicolas, Florent Chiaroni, Imtiaz Masud Ziko … José DolzWACV · École de Technologie Supérieure · Thales (Australia)
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  29. 2024
    Efficient Expansion and Gradient Based Task Inference for Replay Free Incremental LearningSoumya Roy, Vinay Kumar Verma, Deepak GuptaWACV · Amazon (Germany) · Duke University
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  30. 2024
    Source-Guided Similarity Preservation for Online Person Re-IdentificationHamza Rami, Jhony H. Giraldo, Nicolas Winckler, Stéphane LathuilièreWACV
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  31. 2024
    Evaluating Pretrained Models for Deployable Lifelong LearningKiran Lekkala, Eshan Bhargava, Laurent IttiWACV · University of Southern California
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  32. 2023
    FeTrIL: Feature Translation for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningGrégoire Petit, Adrian Popescu, Hugo Schindler … Bertrand DelezoideWACV · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies · +3
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  33. 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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  34. 2023
    Do Pre-trained Models Benefit Equally in Continual Learning?Kuan-Ying Lee, Yuanyi Zhong, Yu-Xiong WangWACV · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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  35. 2023
    Attribution-aware Weight Transfer: A Warm-Start Initialization for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationDipam Goswami, René Schuster, Joost van de Weijer, Didier StrickerWACV · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence · Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani · +2
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  36. 2023
    Saliency Guided Experience Packing for Replay in Continual LearningGobinda Saha, Kaushik RoyWACV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  37. 2023
    Continual Learning with Dependency Preserving HypernetworksDupati Srikar Chandra, Sakshi Varshney, P. K. Srijith, Sunil GuptaWACV · Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad · Deakin University
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  38. 2023
    Neural Weight Search for Scalable Task Incremental LearningJiang Jian, Oya ÇeliktutanWACV · King's College London
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  39. 2022
    Multi-Domain Incremental Learning for Semantic SegmentationPrachi Garg, Rohit Saluja, Vineeth N Balasubramanian … C. V. JawaharWACV · Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad · Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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  40. 2022
    Preventing Catastrophic Forgetting and Distribution Mismatch in Knowledge Distillation via Synthetic DataKuluhan Binici, Nam Trung Pham, Tulika Mitra, Karianto LemanWACV · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · National University of Singapore · +1
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  41. 2022
    Online Continual Learning Via Candidates VotingJiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuWACV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  42. 2022
    Knowledge Capture and Replay for Continual LearningSaisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Pranshu Ranjan Singh, Haytham M. Fayek … ArulMurugan AmbikapathiWACV · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · Institute for Infocomm Research · +1
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  43. 2022
    Dataset Knowledge Transfer for Class-Incremental Learning without MemoryHabib Slim, Eden Belouadah, Adrian Popescu, Darian M. OnchişWACV · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies · +5
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  44. 2021
    InfoMax-GAN: Improved Adversarial Image Generation via Information Maximization and Contrastive LearningKwot Sin Lee, Ngoc-Trung Tran, Ngai‐Man CheungWACV · University of Cambridge · Snap (United States) · +1
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  45. 2021
    Continual Representation Learning for Biometric IdentificationBo Zhao, Shixiang Tang, Dapeng Chen … Rui ZhaoWACV · Group Sense (China) · University of Edinburgh · +1
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  46. 2021
    Do not Forget to Attend to Uncertainty while Mitigating Catastrophic ForgettingVinod K Kurmi, Badri N. Patro, Venkatesh K. Subramanian, Vinay P. NamboodiriWACV · Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · University of Bath
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  47. 2020
    Class-incremental Learning via Deep Model ConsolidationJunting Zhang, Jie Zhang, Shalini Ghosh … C.‐C. Jay KuoWACV · University of Southern California · California Southern University · +3
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  48. 2020
    ScaIL: Classifier Weights Scaling for Class Incremental LearningEden Belouadah, Adrian PopescuWACV · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · Université Paris-Saclay · +1
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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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