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The foundational work on continual learning, 1980 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026PDF ↗
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  3. 2025PDF ↗
  4. 2025
    Continuous Adaptive Knowledge Distillation for Few-Shot Relation ExtractionShuo Zhao, Jianyong Duan, Li He … Jie LiuACM Transactions · North China University of Technology · Standard Bio (Norway) · +1
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  5. 2025
    Continual Learning of Large Language Models: A Comprehensive SurveyHaizhou Shi, Zihao Xu, Hengyi Wang … Hao WangACM Computing Surveys · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Google (United States) · +1
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  6. 2025
    Sculpting Subspaces: Constrained Full Fine-Tuning in LLMs for Continual LearningN. Nayak, Krishnateja Killamsetty, Ligong Han … Akash SrivastavaICLR
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  7. 2025
    Continual Learning Based on Multi-Teacher Knowledge DistillationGuangjun Zai, Yangjie Wu, Yibin Li … Yan LiuInternational Conference on Consumer Electronics and Comp… · Zhengzhou University
  8. 2024
    Overcoming Spatial-Temporal Catastrophic Forgetting for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHao Yu, Xin Yang, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Sichuan University · +2
  9. 2024
    Personalized Federated Continual Learning via Multi-Granularity PromptHao Yu, Xin Yang, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiKDD · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Sichuan University · +3
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  10. 2024
    Mixture-of-LoRAs: An Efficient Multitask Tuning Method for Large Language ModelsWenfeng Feng, Chuzhan Hao, Yuewei Zhang … Hao WangInternational Conference on Language Resources and Evalua…
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  11. 2024
    Federated Continual Learning via Knowledge Fusion: A SurveyXin Yang, Hao Yu, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Nanyang Technological University · +2
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  12. 2024
    FRMM: Feature Reprojection for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningHao Wang, Jing ChenSpringer LNCS · Jiangnan University
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  14. 2023
    Few-shot Incremental Event DetectionHao Wang, Hanwen Shi, Jianyong DuanACM Transactions · North China University of Technology
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  15. 2023PDF ↗
  16. 2023
    Machine Unlearning by Reversing the Continual LearningYongjing Zhang, Zhaobo Lu, Feng Zhang … Shaojing LiApplied Sciences · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Qufu Normal University · +1
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  17. 2021
    Continual Learning with Knowledge Transfer for Sentiment ClassificationZixuan Ke, Bing Liu, Hao Wang, Lei ShuSpringer LNCS · University of Illinois Chicago · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  18. 2019
    Forward and Backward Knowledge Transfer for Sentiment ClassificationHao Wang, Bing Liu, Shuai Wang … Yan YangMachine Learning · Southwest Jiaotong University · University of Illinois Chicago
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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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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