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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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  4. 2025
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Continual Graph Learning for Resource-Limited Mobile DevicesJiyuan Feng, Xu Yang, Dongyi Zheng … Qing LiaoIEEE Transactions · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  5. 2025
    Dynamic Adapter Tuning for Long-Tailed Class-Incremental LearningYanan Gu, Muli Yang, Xu Yang … Cheng DengWACV · China North Industries Group Corporation (China) · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +2
  6. 2025
    CGoFed: Constrained Gradient Optimization Strategy for Federated Class Incremental LearningJiyuan Feng, Xu Yang, Liwen Liang … Qing LiaoTKDE · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  7. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning via Contrastive Complementary AugmentationXi Wang, Xu Yang, Kun Wei … Cheng DengTIP · Xidian University
  8. 2025
    Dual-Space Semantic Synergy Distillation for Continual Learning of Unlabeled StreamsDonghao Sun, Xi Wang, Xu Yang … Cheng DengNeurIPS · Xidian University · ETH Zurich · +2
  9. 2024
  10. 2024
    Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain Adaptation via Pseudo-Label DistillationKun Wei, Xu Yang, Zhe Xu, Cheng DengTIP · Xidian University
  11. 2023PDF ↗
  12. 2024
    Incremental Embedding Learning With Disentangled Representation TranslationKun Wei, Da Chen, Yuhong Li … Dacheng TaoTNNLS · Xidian University · Alibaba Group (China) · +1
  13. 2022
  14. 2021
    Incremental Zero-Shot LearningKun Wei, Cheng Deng, Xu Yang, Dacheng TaoIEEE Trans. Cybernetics · Xidian University · Jingdong (China)
  15. 2021
    Incremental Embedding Learning via Zero-Shot TranslationKun Wei, Cheng Deng, Xu Yang, Maosen LiAAAI · Xidian University
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  16. 2020
    State Primitive Learning to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting in RoboticsFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Hong QiaoCognitive Computation · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  17. 2020
    Lifelong Zero-Shot LearningKun Wei, Cheng Deng, Xu YangIJCAI · Xidian University
  18. 2020
    Encoding primitives generation policy learning for robotic arm to overcome catastrophic forgetting in sequential multi-tasks learningFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Amir HussainNeural Networks · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +7
  19. 2019
    Primitives Generation Policy Learning without Catastrophic Forgetting for Robotic ManipulationFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Amir HussainICDM · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
  20. 2018
    Guided Policy Search for Sequential Multitask LearningFangzhou Xiong, Biao Sun, Xu Yang … Zhiyong LiuIEEE Transactions · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Science and Technology Beijing · +4
  21. 2018
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting with Self-adaptive IdentifiersFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Xu YangSpringer LNCS · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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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