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
    Selective Distillation for Continual Named Entity Recognition with Memory ReplayWeihua Wang, Yue Cao, Feilong BaoSIGIR · Inner Mongolia University
  2. 2026
    Controlled Cluster Separation for Class Incremental LearningZiyi Zhang, Huaiwen ZhangSpringer LNCS · Inner Mongolia University
  3. 2025
    Rehearsal-Free Federated Continual Learning: An Orthogonal Projection ApproachHualong Cui, Yongqiang Gao, Yongmei Liu, Mingyu PangIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · Inner Mongolia University
  4. 2025
    Learning Temporal Event Knowledge for Continual Social Event ClassificationShengsheng Qian, Shengjie Zhang, Dizhan Xue … Changsheng XuTKDE · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  5. 2025
    C$^2$Prompt: Class-aware Client Knowledge Interaction for Federated Continual LearningKunlun Xu, Yibo Feng, Jiangmeng Li … Jiahuan ZhouNeurIPS · Peking University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
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  6. 2023
    C2MR: Continual Cross-Modal Retrieval for Streaming Multi-modal DataHuaiwen Zhang, Yang Yang, Fan Qi … Changsheng XuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Inner Mongolia University · Tianjin University of Technology · +2
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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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