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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. 2026
    SAILS: Segment Anything with Incrementally Learned Semantics for Task-Invariant and Training-Free Continual LearningShishir Muralidhara, Didier Stricker, René SchusterIEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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  2. 2026
    PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and ToolkitMuhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier StrickerWACV · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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  3. 2025
    Plant in Cupboard, Orange on Rably, Inat Aphone. Benchmarking Incremental Learning of Situation and Language Model using a Text-Simulated Situated EnvironmentJonathan Jordan, Sherzod Hakimov, David SchlangenSpringer LNCS · University of Potsdam · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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  4. 2025
    Exploration and exploitation in continual learningKiseong Hong, Hyundong Jin, Sungho Suh, Eunwoo KimNeural Networks · Chung-Ang University · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
  5. 2023
    Proxy Anchor-based Unsupervised Learning for Continuous Generalized Category DiscoveryHyungmin Kim, Sungho Suh, Dae-Hwan Kim … Junmo KimICCV · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Samsung (South Korea) · +3
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  6. 2023
    Attribution-aware Weight Transfer: A Warm-Start Initialization for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationDipam Goswami, René Schuster, Joost van de Weijer, Didier StrickerWACV · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence · Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani · +2
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  7. 2021
    Sequential Targeting: an incremental learning approach for data imbalance in text classificationJoel Jang, Yoonjeon Kim, Kyoung-Ho Choi, Sungho SuhExpert Systems with Applications · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Naver (South Korea) · +1
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  8. 2013
    Incremental learning of skill collections based on intrinsic motivationJan Hendrik Metzen, Frank KirchnerFrontiers · University of Bremen · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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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