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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. 2026PDF ↗
  2. 2026
    Sculpting Margin Penalty: Intra-Task Adapter Merging and Classifier Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningLiang Bai, Hong Song, J. W. Li … Jian YangIEEE TCSVT · Beijing Institute of Technology
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  3. 2024PDF ↗
  4. 2024
    Revisiting class-incremental object detection: An efficient approach via intrinsic characteristics alignment and task decouplingLiang Bai, Hong Song, Tao Feng … Jian YangExpert Systems with Applications · Beijing Institute of Technology · Tsinghua University
  5. 2023
    Few-shot Continual Infomax LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Jian Yang, Zhen CuiICCV · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  6. 2023
    Continual Learning via Manifold Expansion ReplayZihao Xu, Xuan Tang, Yufei Shi … Xian WeiIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · East China Normal University · Sun Yat-sen University · +2
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  7. 2023
    Refined Response Distillation for Class-Incremental Player DetectionLiang Bai, Hangjie Yuan, Tao Feng … Jian YangarXiv
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  8. 2022
    Continual learning via region-aware memoryKai Zhao, Zhenyong Fu, Jian YangApplied Intelligence · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  9. 2021
    Cost-Effective Incremental Deep Model: Matching Model Capacity With the Least SamplingYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Southeast University · +2
  10. 2021
    S2OSC: A Holistic Semi-Supervised Approach for Open Set ClassificationYang Yang, Hongchen Wei, Zhenqiang Sun … Jian YangACM Transactions · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +3
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  11. 2021
    Learning Adaptive Embedding Considering Incremental ClassYang Yang, Zhen-Qiang Sun, Hengshu Zhu … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +4
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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. 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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