Related work

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
    Towards continual low-light image enhancement through causal inferenceFan Ji, Hao Li, Jiangmeng Li … Fanjiang XuNeural Networks · Institute of Software · Aerospace Information Research Institute · +1
  2. 2026
    C3GAN: A brain-inspired memory consolidation for class-incremental learningLin Xiong, Tao Wang, Fuqing Zhang … Hailing XiongNeural Networks · Southwest University · Chongqing Jiaotong University · +2
  3. 2025
    Boundary-aware Prototype Augmentation and Dual-level Knowledge Distillation for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental HashingQinghang Su, Dayan Wu, Bo LiKnowledge-Based Systems · Aerospace Information Research Institute · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  4. 2025
    Knowledge fusion distillation and gradient-based data distillation for class-incremental learningLin Xiong, Xin Guan, Hailing Xiong … Fuqing ZhangNeurocomputing · Southwest University · Chongqing Jiaotong University · +2
  5. 2024
    Decoding BatchNorm statistics via anchors pool for data-free models based on continual learningXiaobin Li, Weiqiang Wang, Guangluan XuNeural Computing and Applications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Aerospace Information Research Institute · +1
  6. 2024
    Continual Semantic Segmentation via Mask-Based Class RebalancingYongjie Guo, Siya Chen, Hongjian YouIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Aerospace Information Research Institute
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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