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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
    CoDC: Unified Diffusion and Classification for Enhanced Class-Incremental LearningJunli Chen, Jianming Wen, Sijin Wang, Qiuyu ZhuApplied Sciences · Shanghai University
  2. 2026
    Evidential Prior Guided Neural Collapse for Open World Object DetectionKewen Xia, Xiaodong Yue, Wei Liu … Yaxin PengIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai University · Tongji University
  3. 2026
    CoMasTRe+: Unleashing Disentangled Continual Segmentation With Mixture of Continual AdaptersYizheng Gong, Siyue Yu, Liquan Shen, Jimin XiaoIEEE TCSVT · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Shanghai University
  4. 2025
    Domain-Incremental Learning Paradigm for scene understanding via Pseudo-Replay GenerationZhifeng Xie, Rui Qiu, Qile He … Xin TanGraphical Models · Shanghai University · East China Normal University
  5. 2025
    PKI: Prior knowledge-infused neural network for few-shot class-incremental learningKexin Bao, Fanzhao Lin, Zichen Wang … Shiming GeNeural Networks · Institute of Information Engineering · NARI Group (China) · +2
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  6. 2025
    Mitigating Forgetting in Adapting Pre-trained Language Models to Text Processing Tasks via Consistency AlignmentJianqi Gao, Hao Wu, Yiu‐ming Cheung … Yonggang ZhangACM on Web Conference 2025 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai University · +1
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  7. 2025
    Spatial–Adaptive Replay for Foreground Classes in Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationWei Huang, Zhuoming Gu, Mengfan Xu, Xiaofeng LuElectronics · Shanghai University
  8. 2025
    Fresh-CL: Feature Realignment through Experts on Hypersphere in Continual LearningZhongyi Zhou, Yaxin Peng, Pengxing Yi … Chaomin ShenICASSP · East China Normal University · Shanghai University
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  9. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning Based on Playback Images Generated by Classification NetworkQiuyu Zhu, Yunxiao Zhang, Yunhang Zhuo, Junli ChenInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artifici… · Shanghai University
  10. 2024
    Learning from Novel Knowledge: Continual Few-shot Knowledge Graph CompletionZhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Qiannan Zhang … Shichao PeiCIKM · Shanghai University · Cornell University · +2
  11. 2024
    Adaptive tree-like neural network: Overcoming catastrophic forgetting to classify streaming data with concept driftsYimin Wen, Xiang Liu, Hang YuKnowledge-Based Systems · Guilin University of Electronic Technology · Shanghai University · +1
  12. 2023
    Incremental Image Classification Method Based on Proxy FeaturesAolei Yang, Ziang Li, Yaoyao Li … Yulin XuChinese Control Conference (CCC) · Shanghai University
  13. 2023
    Class-Incremental Learning Based on Big Dataset Pre-Trained ModelsBin Wen, Qiuyu ZhuIEEE Access · Shanghai University
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  14. 2022
    Small-sample continual learning classification method with vaccine to update memory cells based on the artificial immune systemHongli Zhang, Lunchang Jiang, Wenhui Jiao … Haihua XiaoBiosystems · Shanghai University
  15. 2022
    Self-updating continual learning classification method based on artificial immune systemXin Sun, Haotian Wang, Shulin Liu … Haihua XiaoApplied Intelligence · Shanghai University · Changzhou University
  16. 2022
    Continual learning classification method with the weighted k-nearest neighbor rule for time-varying data space based on the artificial immune systemDong Li, Ming Gu, Shulin Liu … Kun QianKnowledge-Based Systems · Changzhou University · Shanghai University
  17. 2021
    Continual learning classification method with single-label memory cells based on the intelligent mechanism of the biological immune systemDong Li, Lanlan Gong, Shulin Liu … Kun QianJournal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems · Changzhou University · Shanghai University
  18. 2021
    Incremental classifier learning based on PEDCC-loss and cosine distanceQiuyu Zhu, Zikuang He, Xin YeMultimedia Tools and Applications · Shanghai University
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  19. 2021
    Continual learning classification method for time-varying data space based on artificial immune systemDong Li, Shulin Liu, Furong Gao, Xin SunJournal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Changzhou University · +1
  20. 2020
    Continual learning classification method with constant-sized memory cells based on the artificial immune systemDong Li, Shulin Liu, Furong Gao, Xin SunKnowledge-Based Systems · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Changzhou University · +1
  21. 2020
    IExpressNet: Facial Expression Recognition with Incremental ClassesJunjie Zhu, Bingjun Luo, Sicheng Zhao … Yue GaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Tsinghua University · University of California, Berkeley · +1
  22. 2020
    Continual learning classification method with new labeled data based on the artificial immune systemDong Li, Shulin Liu, Furong Gao, Xin SunApplied Soft Computing · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Changzhou University · +1
  23. 2019
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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