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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
    Lethe: Plasticity-aware Active Forgetting for Resource-Efficient On-Device Continual LearningHaibo Liu, Chenxin Mao, Zhenzhe Zheng … He HuangKDD · Soochow University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  2. 2026
  3. 2025
    Remember Past, Anticipate Future: Learning Continual Multimodal Misinformation DetectorsBing Wang, Ximing Li, Mengzhe Ye … Lin WuACM International Conference on Multimedia · Jilin University · Jilin Province Science and Technology Department · +3
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  4. 2025
    Advances in continual learning: A comprehensive reviewMengjuan Jiang, Jiaqing Fan, Fanzhang LiExpert Systems with Applications · Soochow University
  5. 2025
    Representative-exploring Replay for Online Class-Incremental Continual LearningLibang Zhao, Alysa Ziying Tan, Siwei Feng … Mengyuan SongIJCNN · Soochow University · Nanyang Technological University
  6. 2025
    Enhancing few-shot class-incremental learning through prototype optimizationMengjuan Jiang, Jiaqing Fan, Fanzhang LiApplied Intelligence · Soochow University
  7. 2025
    Unleashing the Power of Continual Learning on Non-Centralized Devices: A SurveyYichen Li, Haozhao Wang, Wenchao Xu … Ruixuan LiIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +5
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  8. 2025
    Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Weighted Aggregation and DistillationFeng Wu, Alysa Ziying Tan, Siwei Feng … Yuanlu ChenIEEE Internet of Things Journal · Soochow University · Nanyang Technological University
  9. 2025
    Personalized Federated Class-Incremental Learning through Critical Parameter TransferFeng Wu, Siwei Feng, Yuanlu Chen, Libang ZhaoICASSP · Soochow University
  10. 2025
    Boosting LLM’s Continual Sentiment Understanding for Low-Resource LanguagesHan Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Jiamin Luo … Guodong ZhouIEEE Transactions · Soochow University
  11. 2024
    General Federated Class-Incremental Learning With Lightweight Generative ReplayYuanlu Chen, Alysa Ziying Tan, Siwei Feng … Feng WuIEEE Internet of Things Journal · Soochow University · Nanyang Technological University
  12. 2024
    FL-Clip: Bridging Plasticity and Stability in Pre-Trained Federated Class-Incremental Learning ModelsAlysa Ziying Tan, Siwei Feng, Han YuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Nanyang Technological University · Soochow University
  13. 2022
    HLifeRL: A hierarchical lifelong reinforcement learning frameworkFan Ding, Fei ZhuInformation Sciences · Soochow University
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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