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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
    Pareto Continual Learning: Preference-Conditioned Learning and Adaption for Dynamic Stability-Plasticity Trade-offSong Lai, Zhe Zhao, Fei Zhu … Gaofeng MengAAAI · City University of Hong Kong · City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute · +4
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  2. 2025
    Branch-Tuning: Balancing Stability and Plasticity for Continual Self-Supervised LearningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Cheng‐Lin LiuTNNLS · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  3. 2024
    PILoRA: Prototype Guided Incremental LoRA for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHaiyang Guo, Fei Zhu, Wenzhuo Liu … Cheng‐Lin LiuECCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
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  4. 2023
    Imitating the oracle: Towards calibrated model for class incremental learningFei Zhu, Zhen Cheng, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuNeural Networks · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
  5. 2021
    Calibration for Non-Exemplar Based Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  6. 2021
    Prototype Augmentation and Self-Supervision for Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Chuang Wang … Cheng‐Lin LiuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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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