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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. 2025
    Context selectivity with dynamic availability enables lifelong continual learningMartin Barry, Wulfram Gerstner, Guillaume BellecNeural Networks · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  2. 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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  3. 2025
    Multiple semantic prompt for rehearsal-free continual learningJunwei Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Depeng Li, Zhigang ZengNeural Networks · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  4. 2025
    Similarity-based prototype reconstruction and feature reorganization for non-exemplar class incremental learningChao Zhou, Jun Sun, Vasile Palade, Xiao‐Jun WuNeural Networks · Jiangnan University · Coventry University
  5. 2025
    Online lifelong optimal tracking control of uncertain nonlinear continuous-time strict-feedback systems using deep neural networksIrfan Ganie, S. JagannathanNeural Networks · Missouri University of Science and Technology
  6. 2025
    Family-based continual learning for multi-domain pattern analysis in federated frameworks with GCN and ViTSaeed Iqbal, Xiaopin Zhong, Muhammad Attique Khan … Weixiang LiuNeural Networks
  7. 2025
    Balancing Learning Plasticity and Memory Stability: A parameter space strategy for class-incremental learningJianzhou Feng, Huaxiao Qiu, Lazhi Zhao … Yiming XuNeural Networks · Yanshan University
  8. 2025
    Prototypes as Anchors: Tackling Unseen Noise for online continual learningShao-Yuan Li, Yu-Xiang Zheng, Sheng-Jun Huang … Kangkan WangNeural Networks · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  9. 2025
    Flashbacks to Harmonize Stability and Plasticity in Continual LearningLeila Mahmoodi, Peyman Moghadam, Munawar Hayat … Mehrtash HarandiNeural Networks · Monash University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +3
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  10. 2025
    Neuromimetic metaplasticity for adaptive continual learning without catastrophic forgettingSuhee Cho, Hyeonsu Lee, Seungdae Baek, Se‐Bum PaikNeural Networks · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Korea Institute of Brain Science
  11. 2025
    Information-Theoretic Complementary Prompts for Improved Continual Text ClassificationDuzhen Zhang, Duzhen Zhang, Yong Ren … Tielin ZhangNeural Networks · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tencent (China) · +2
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  12. 2025
    Supervised contrastive learning with prototype distillation for data incremental learningSuorong Yang, Tianyue Zhang, Zhiming Xu … Jian ZhaoNeural Networks · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing University
  13. 2025
    Prompt-Enhanced: Leveraging language representation for prompt continual learning.Wei Li, D. M. Li, Shitong Shao … Zhen LeiNeural Networks · Southeast University · Duke Kunshan University · +2
  14. 2025
    DeepART: Deep gradient-free local learning with adaptive resonanceSasha Petrenko, Leonardo Enzo Brito da Silva, Donald C. WunschNeural Networks · Missouri University of Science and Technology · Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte · +1
  15. 2025
    Red alarm: Controllable backdoor attack in continual learningRui Gao, Weiwei LiuNeural Networks · Wuhan University · Wuhan Donghu University
  16. 2025
    A prompt regularization approach to enhance few-shot class-incremental learning with Two-Stage ClassifierMeilan Hao, Yizhan Gu, Kejian Dong … Xin NingNeural Networks · Institute of Semiconductors · Hebei University of Engineering · +1
  17. 2025
    Exploration and exploitation in continual learningKiseong Hong, Hyundong Jin, Sungho Suh, Eunwoo KimNeural Networks · Chung-Ang University · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
  18. 2025
    Using samples with label noise for robust continual learningHongyi Nie, Shiqi Fan, Yang Liu … Zhen WangNeural Networks · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Tsinghua University
  19. 2025
    L3Net: Localized and Layered Reparameterization for incremental learningXuandi Luo, Huaidong Zhang, Huaidong Zhang … Shengfeng HeNeural Networks · South China University of Technology · Singapore Management University
  20. 2025
    DuPt: Rehearsal-based continual learning with dual promptsShengqin Jiang, Daolong Zhang, Fengna Cheng … Qingshan LiuNeural Networks · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Nanjing Forestry University · +2
  21. 2025
    PVBF: A Framework for Mitigating Parameter Variation Imbalance in Online Continual LearningTao, Zelin, Hao Deng, Mingqing Liu … Shengjie ZhaoNeural Networks
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  22. 2025
    Continual learning with Bayesian compression for shared and private latent representationsYang Yang, Dandan Guo, Bo Chen, Dexiu HuNeural Networks · Jilin University · Xidian University · +1
  23. 2025
    Exploring continual learning strategies in artificial neural networks through graph-based analysis of connectivity: Insights from a brain-inspired perspectiveLucrezia Carboni, Dwight Nwaigwe, Marion Mainsant … Sophie AchardNeural Networks · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Inserm · +10
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  24. 2025
    Enhancing Consistency and Mitigating Bias: A Data Replay Approach for Incremental LearningChenyang Wang, Junjun Jiang, Xingyu Hu … Xiangyang JiNeural Networks · Harbin Institute of Technology · Tsinghua University
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  25. 2025
    Similarity-based context aware continual learning for spiking neural networksBing Han, Feifei Zhao, Yang Li … Yi ZengNeural Networks · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  26. 2025
    Improving Forward Compatibility in Class Incremental Learning by Increasing Representation Rank and Feature RichnessJaeill Kim, W. C. Lee, Moonjung Eo, Wonjong RheeNeural Networks · CHA University Bundang Medical Center · Seoul National University · +1
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  27. 2025
    Continual Learning in the Presence of RepetitionHamed Hemati, Lorenzo Pellegrini, X.W. Duan … Gido M. van de VenNeural Networks · University of St.Gallen · University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen · +10
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  29. 2025
    Continual Learning of Conjugated Visual Representations through Higher-order Motion FlowsSimone Marullo, Matteo Tiezzi, Marco Gori, Stefano MelacciNeural Networks
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  30. 2025
    HyperMask: Adaptive Hypernetwork-based Masks for Continual LearningKamil Książek, Przemysław SpurekNeural Networks
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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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