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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. 2026
    A continual learning framework with long-term and multiple short-term memory networksShangge Liu, Lei Wang, Rui Yan … Yang GaoNeural Networks · Nanjing Tech University · University of Wollongong · +2
  2. 2025
    Class-aware prototype augmentation and decoupled feature distillation for class-incremental learningChengdong Wang, Yangjun Ou, Xianfang Tang … Rui YanPattern Recognition · Hefei University of Technology · Wuhan Textile University · +2
  3. 2024
    Continual Learning meets Multimodal Foundation Models: Fundamentals and AdvancesWenbin Li, Qi Fan, Rui Yan … Jiebo Luoon Continual Learning meets Multimodal Foundation Models:… · Nanjing University · Systems Engineering Society of China · +3
  4. 2024
    CLFR-M: Continual Learning Framework for Robots via Human Feedback and Dynamic MemoryLei Wang, Yiming Fei, Huajin Tang, Rui YanIEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Intellig… · Zhejiang University of Technology · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
  5. 2022
    TaskDrop: A Competitive Baseline for Continual Learning of Sentiment ClassificationJian-Ping Mei, Yilun Zhen, Qianwei Zhou, Rui YanNeural Networks · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University of Technology
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  6. 2019
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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