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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Online Continual Learning With Dual-Margin Contrastive ReplayFan Lyu, Gongbo Cheng, Daofeng Liu … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  2. 2025
    Pursuing Better Representations: Balancing Discriminability and Transferability for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningQi Li, Wei Wang, Hui Fan … Fei WenJournal of Imaging · National University of Defense Technology · Central South University of Forestry and Technology · +2
  3. 2025
    Gaussian-Augmented Prototypical Network for Class-Incremental Few-Shot Relation ClassificationChenxi Hu, Yifan Hu, Yunxiang Zhao … Yangyi HuACM Transactions · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Beijing Radiation Center · +3
  4. 2025
    Cross-Domain Attribute Alignment with CLIP: A Rehearsal-Free Approach for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationKerun Mi, Guoliang Kang, Guangyu Li … Chen GongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beihang University · +1
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  5. 2025
    Flexi-FSCIL: Adaptive Knowledge Retention for Breaking the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma in Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningWufei Xie, Yue Wang, Chenliang Liu … Xue YangICCV · Central South University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  6. 2025
    CSTA: Spatial-Temporal Causal Adaptive Learning for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental LearningTieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Chern Hong Lim … Weiyao LinIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Monash University Malaysia · +4
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  7. 2025
    One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly DetectionXiaofan Li, Xin Tan, Zhuo Chen … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +2
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  8. 2025
    ZSCIL: Zero-Shot Class Incremental Learning Method for Signal RecognitionWenjie Sun, Rujun Song, Sidi Liang … Bo YanIEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  9. 2025
    Effective Generative Replay with Strong Memory for Continual LearningJing Yang, Xinyu Zhou, Yao He … Changfu ZhangKnowledge-Based Systems · Guizhou University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +2
  10. 2025
    Enabling Real-Time Inference in Online Continual Learning via Device-Cloud CollaborationHaibo Liu, Chen Gong, Zhenzhe Zheng … Fan WuACM on Web Conference 2025 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  11. 2025
    Mitigating Forgetting in Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to Text Processing Tasks via Consistency AlignmentJianqi Gao, Hao Wu, Yiu‐ming Cheung … Yonggang ZhangACM on Web Conference 2025 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai University · +1
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  12. 2025
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Asymmetric Supervised Contrastive LearningDuo Liu, Linglan Zhao, Zhongqiang Zhang … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent (China) · +4
  13. 2025
    A3-TTA: Adaptive Anchor Alignment Test-Time Adaptation for Image SegmentationJianghao Wu, Xiangde Luo, Yubo Zhou … Shaoting ZhangTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +1
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  14. 2025
    Tackling Continual Offline RL through Selective Weights Activation on Aligned SpacesJifeng Hu, Sili Huang, Li Chun Shen … Dacheng TaoNeurIPS · Jilin University · Jilin Medical University · +5
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. 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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