Research map / Continual learning
Domain and prompt-based: research map
114 accepted papers on Domain and prompt-based in Continual learning, from ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR and AAAI (2016–2026), grouped into 2 clusters and 4 approaches. The busiest year so far is 2024.
Within Continual learning, its share shrank from 12.5% in 2023–24 to 8.5% in 2025–26 (44 → 49 papers at ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR and AAAI, the venues with data for all four years).
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Approaches and key papers
domains · time adaptation · test time · 74 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Domain-incremental learning with memory (49 papers)
Adapts to sequentially arriving domains using memory, domain-aware representations and randomization. - Continual test-time adaptation (25 papers)
Adapts models online to shifting target domains using adapters, prompts and knowledge fusion.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- Continual Test-Time Domain Adaptation (CVPR 2022 · 484 citations)
- Learn From Others and Be Yourself in Heterogeneous Federated Learning (CVPR 2022 · 279 citations)
- Each Test Image Deserves A Specific Prompt: Continual Test-Time Adaptation for 2D Medical Image Segmentation (CVPR 2024 · 44 citations)
- Multi-Domain Incremental Learning for Face Presentation Attack Detection (AAAI 2024 · 30 citations)
prompts · person · prompting · 40 papers
Approaches in this cluster:
- Prompt-based continual learning (26 papers)
Learns small prompt sets over frozen pretrained models without rehearsal buffers. - Lifelong person re-identification (14 papers)
Accumulates and consolidates knowledge across domains for person re-identification with rehearsal or distillation.
Most cited and most cited since 2024:
- Learning To Prompt for Continual Learning (CVPR 2022 · 762 citations)
- CODA-Prompt: COntinual Decomposed Attention-Based Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning (CVPR 2023 · 320 citations)
- Unsupervised Continual Anomaly Detection with Contrastively-Learned Prompt (AAAI 2024 · 39 citations)
- Consistent Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning (CVPR 2024 · 38 citations)
Related topics in Continual learning
- Online and replay-based (582)
- Class-incremental (303)
- Continual fine-tuning of LLMs (264)
