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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
    Open-World Object Detection with Cross-Modal Contrastive Curricula장민서Journal of Innovative Research and Technology · University of Edinburgh
  2. 2025
    ReFu: Recursive Fusion for Exemplar-Free 3D Class-Incremental LearningYi Yang, Lei Zhong, Huiping ZhuangWACV · University of Edinburgh · South China University of Technology
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  3. 2025
    Dual-Space Semantic Synergy Distillation for Continual Learning of Unlabeled StreamsDonghao Sun, Xi Wang, Xu Yang … Cheng DengNeurIPS · Xidian University · ETH Zurich · +2
  4. 2024
    Dual Variational Knowledge Attention for Class Incremental Vision TransformerHaoran Duan, Rui Sun, Varun Ojha … Rajiv RanjanIJCNN · Newcastle University · Aberystwyth University · +2
  5. 2024
    From MNIST to ImageNet and back: benchmarking continual curriculum learningKamil Faber, Dominik Żurek, Marcin Pietroń … Roberto CorizzoMachine Learning · Jagiellonian University · AGH University of Krakow · +2
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  6. 2021
    Simultaneous Multi-View Object Recognition and Grasping in Open-Ended DomainsHamidreza Kasaei, Mohammadreza Kasaei, Georgios Tziafas … Remo SassoJournal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems · University of Groningen · University of Edinburgh
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  7. 2023
    Incremental Generalized Category DiscoveryBingchen Zhao, Oisin Mac AodhaICCV · University of Edinburgh
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  8. 2022
    CTR: Contrastive Training Recognition Classifier for Few-Shot Open-World RecognitionNikolaos Dionelis, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Mehrdad YaghoobiICPR · University of Edinburgh
  9. 2021
    Continual Representation Learning for Biometric IdentificationBo Zhao, Shixiang Tang, Dapeng Chen … Rui ZhaoWACV · Group Sense (China) · University of Edinburgh · +1
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  10. 2020
    An Improved Dual-Channel Network to Eliminate Catastrophic ForgettingDongbo Liu, Zhenan He, Dongdong Chen, Jiancheng LvIEEE Transactions · Sichuan University · State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering · +1
  11. 2020
    Incremental Few-Shot Object DetectionJuan-Manuel Pérez-Rúa, Xiatian Zhu, Timothy M. Hospedales, Tao XiangCVPR · Samsung (United Kingdom) · University of Edinburgh · +1
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  12. 2020
    Defining Benchmarks for Continual Few-Shot LearningAntreas Antoniou, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Mateusz Ochal, Amos StorkeyarXiv · University of Edinburgh
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  13. 2018
    HOUDINI: Lifelong Learning as Program SynthesisLazar Valkov, Dipak Chaudhari, Akash Srivastava … Swarat ChaudhuriNeurIPS · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · IBM (United States) · +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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