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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. 2025
    FedMTL: Adaptive multi-teacher knowledge distillation for federated continual learningLeiming Chen, Dehai Zhao, Yongbiao Gao … Chee Wei TanKnowledge-Based Systems · Jining University · China University of Petroleum, East China · +5
  2. 2025
    Self-Expansion of Pre-trained Models with Mixture of Adapters for Continual LearningHuiyi Wang, Haodong Lu, Lina Yao, Dong GongCVPR · UNSW Sydney · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +1
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  3. 2025
    BiLoRA: Almost-orthogonal Parameter Spaces for Continual LearningHao Zhu, Yifei Zhang, Junhao Dong, Piotr KoniuszCVPR · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Data61 · +1
  4. 2025
    M2Distill: Multi-Modal Distillation for Lifelong Imitation LearningKaushik Roy, Akila Dissanayakc, Brendan Tidd, Pcyman MoghadamICRA · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Data61
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  5. 2025
    Zero-shot incremental learning using spatial-frequency feature representationsJie Ren, Yang Zhao, Weichuan Zhang, Changming SunScientific Reports · Xi'an Polytechnic University · Shaanxi University of Science and Technology · +2
  6. 2024
    Canonical Shape Projection Is All You Need for 3D Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningAli Cheraghian, Zeeshan Hayder, Sameera Ramasinghe … Mehrtash HarandiECCV · Australian National University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +6
  7. 2024
    Exploring Soft Prompt Initialization Strategy for Few-Shot Continual Text ClassificationZhehao Zhang, Tong Yu, Handong Zhao … Shuai LiICASSP · Dartmouth College · Dartmouth Hospital · +6
  8. 2023
    CL3: Generalization of Contrastive Loss for Lifelong LearningKaushik Roy, Christian Simon, Peyman Moghadam, Mehrtash HarandiJournal of Imaging · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Data61 · +3
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  9. 2023
    Flashback for Continual LearningLeila Mahmoodi, Mehrtash Harandi, Peyman MoghadamICCV · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · +3
  10. 2023
    Exploring Data Geometry for Continual LearningZhi Gao, Chen Xu, Feng Li … Yuwei WuCVPR · Beijing Institute of Technology · Shenzhen University · +3
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  11. 2023
    Graph Lifelong Learning: A SurveyFalih Gozi Febrinanto, Feng Xia, Kristen Moore … Charu C. AggarwalIEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine · Federation University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +1
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  12. 2023
    Uncertainty Estimation With Neural Processes for Meta-Continual LearningXuesong Wang, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang … Sen WangTNNLS · University of Technology Sydney · UNSW Sydney · +4
  13. 2022
    InCloud: Incremental Learning for Point Cloud Place RecognitionJoshua Knights, Peyman Moghadam, Milad Ramezani … Clinton FookesIROS · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Queensland University of Technology · +2
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  14. 2022
    On Generalizing Beyond Domains in Cross-Domain Continual LearningChristian Simon, Masoud Faraki, Yi–Hsuan Tsai … Manmohan ChandrakerCVPR · Australian National University · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · +5
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  15. 2021
    Synthesized Feature based Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning on a Mixture of SubspacesAli Cheraghian, Shafin Rahman, Sameera Ramasinghe … Mehrtash HarandiICCV · Australian National University · Data61 · +2
  16. 2021
    Semantic-aware Knowledge Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningAli Cheraghian, Shafin Rahman, Pengfei Fang … Mehrtash HarandiCVPR · Australian National University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +3
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  17. 2021
    On Learning the Geodesic Path for Incremental LearningChristian Simon, Piotr Koniusz, Mehrtash HarandiCVPR · Australian National University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +3
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  18. 2021
    Plastic and Stable Gated Classifiers for Continual LearningNicholas I-Hsien Kuo, Mehrtash Harandi, Nicolas Fourrier … Hanna SuominenCVPR · Australian National University · UNSW Sydney · +5
  19. 2021
    Learning without Forgetting for 3D Point Cloud ObjectsTownim Faisal Chowdhury, Mahira Jalisha, Ali Cheraghian, Shafin RahmanSpringer LNCS · North South University · Australian National University · +2
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  20. 2021
    Lifelong Explainer for Lifelong LearnersXuelin Situ, Sameen Maruf, Ingrid Zukerman … Gholamreza HaffariEMNLP · Monash University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +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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