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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
    Structure-aware federated hypergraph continual learningYanxin Hu, Xiaoman Liu, Zhenzhen Xie … Chao ChengInformation Sciences · Changchun University of Technology · Shandong University of Science and Technology · +3
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  2. 2026
    SA-LoRA: Shared-A decoupled low-rank adaptation for class-incremental learningXiaohuan Bing, Yuanhao Xi, Ramin YahyapourInformation Sciences · Liaoning Technical University · University of Göttingen · +1
  3. 2026
    Distribution-aware sampling of replay buffer for mitigating catastrophic forgettingArmaan Garg, Ansh Raj Sharma, Aryan Arora, Shilpa VermaInformation Sciences · Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar · Punjab Engineering College
  4. 2026
    TADG: topology-aware and distillation-guided framework for continual knowledge graph embeddingMingsheng Wang, Pengfei Wang, Ming He, Hongbin WangInformation Sciences · Harbin Engineering University · Tokyo Institute of Technology
  5. 2026
    LUNCH: adaptive balancing of continual learning via hyperparameter uncertaintyQingyi Pan, Liyuan Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Jun ZhuInformation Sciences · Tsinghua University · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  6. 2026
    CRAD-HOPE: brain-inspired nested learning framework for few-shot anomaly detectionWenxin Cao, Juanhua Cao, Weijun WuInformation Sciences · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Jiangxi College of Applied Technology · +1
  7. 2026
    RSCL: Adaptive meta-learning framework inspired by rough set theory and continual learningL. L. Ding, Shuliang ZhaoInformation Sciences · Hebei University of Economics and Business · Hebei Normal University
  8. 2026
    Online label aggregation with incomplete crowd responsesYuyang Liu, Haoyu Liu, Runze Wu … Changjie FanInformation Sciences · Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · NetEase (China) · +1
  9. 2026
    Class semantics guided knowledge distillation for few-shot class incremental learningPing Li, Jiajun Chen, Shaoqi Tian, Ran WangInformation Sciences · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Nanjing University
  10. 2025
    Dynamic prompt allocation and tuning for continual test-time adaptationChaoran Cui, Yongrui Zhen, Shuai Gong … Yilong YinInformation Sciences · Shandong University of Finance and Economics · Shandong University
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  11. 2025
    HINT: Hypernetwork approach to training weight interval regions in continual learningPatryk Krukowski, Anna Bielawska, Kamil Książek … Przemysław SpurekInformation Sciences · Jagiellonian University · Narodowy Instytut Leków · +1
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  12. 2025
    PILOT: a pre-trained model-based continual learning toolboxHailong Sun, Dawei Zhou, De‐Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia YeInformation Sciences · Nanjing University
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  13. 2025
    Sparse personalized federated class-incremental learningYouchao Liu, Dingjiang HuangInformation Sciences · East China Normal University
  14. 2025
    ReFNet: Rehearsal-based graph lifelong learning with multi-resolution framelet graph neural networksMing Li, Xiaoyi Yang, Yuting Chen … Qintai HuInformation Sciences · Zhejiang Normal University · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +1
  15. 2024
    Hybrid rotation self-supervision and feature space normalization for class incremental learningWenyi Feng, Zhe Wang, Qian Zhang … Zhilin FuInformation Sciences · Qinghai University · East China University of Science and Technology
  16. 2024
  17. 2024
    Cross-Domain Continual Learning via CLAMPWeiwei Weng, Mahardhika Pratama, Jie Zhang … Savitha RamasamyInformation Sciences · Nanyang Technological University · University of South Australia · +1
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  18. 2024
    Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning via Robust Transformer ApproachNaeem Paeedeh, Naeem Paeedeh, Mahardhika Pratama … Ryszard KowalczykInformation Sciences · University of South Australia · Universitas Gadjah Mada · +2
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  19. 2024
    Bridging pre-trained models to continual learning: A hypernetwork based framework with parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniquesFengqian Ding, Chen Xu, Han Liu … Hongchao ZhouInformation Sciences · Shandong University
  20. 2023
    Learnware: small models do bigZhihua Zhou, Zhi-Hao TanInformation Sciences · Nanjing University
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  21. 2023
    Task-specific parameter decoupling for class incremental learningRunhang Chen, Xiao‐Yuan Jing, Fei Wu … Yaru HaoInformation Sciences · Wuhan University · Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology · +2
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  23. 2023
    PyCIL: a Python toolbox for class-incremental learningDa-Wei Zhou, Fuyun Wang, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanInformation Sciences · Nanjing University
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  24. 2023
    Assessor-Guided Learning for Continual EnvironmentsM. Anwar Ma’sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Edwin Lughofer … Wisnu JatmikoInformation Sciences
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  25. 2023
    Federated probability memory recall for federated continual learningZhe Wang, Yu Zhang, Xinlei Xu … Wenli DuInformation Sciences · East China University of Science and Technology
  26. 2022
    Communication-efficient federated continual learning for distributed learning system with Non-IID dataZhao Zhang, Yong Zhang, Da Guo … Xiaolin ZhuInformation Sciences · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  27. 2022
    Target layer regularization for continual learning using Cramer-Wold distanceMarcin Mazur, Łukasz Pustelnik, Szymon Knop … Przemysław SpurekInformation Sciences · Jagiellonian University
  28. 2022
    HLifeRL: A hierarchical lifelong reinforcement learning frameworkFan Ding, Fei ZhuInformation Sciences · Soochow University
  29. 2022
    Knowledge extraction and retention based continual learning by using convolutional autoencoder-based learning classifier systemMuhammad Irfan, Jiangbin Zheng, Muhammad Iqbal … Muhammad Hassan ArifInformation Sciences · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Higher Colleges of Technology · +1
  30. 2019
    Deep stacked stochastic configuration networks for lifelong learning of non-stationary data streamsMahardhika Pratama, Dianhui WangInformation Sciences · Nanyang Technological University · La Trobe University · +1
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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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