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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
    Optimising few-shot class-incremental learning for fine-grained visual recognitionYimin Yin, Haoling Liu, Sihang Xu … Jinghua ZhangInternational Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval · Hunan First Normal University · Fujian University of Technology · +1
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  2. 2025
    CoRe-KD: Contrastive Multi-Teacher and Retention-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Continual Multilingual Neural Machine TranslationLin Zhou, Degen HuangData Intelligence · Dalian University of Technology · Dalian University · +1
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  3. 2024
    Towards Adversarial-Robust Class-Incremental Learning via Progressively Volume-Up Perturbation GenerationY. Nancy You, Bin Chen, Jia-Li Yin … Wei LinSpringer LNCS · Fuzhou University · Fujian University of Technology
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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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