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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
    cPB: Continuous Piggyback for Streaming Continual Learning with Temporal DependenceReza Paki, Federico Giannini, Emanuele Della ValleSpringer CCIS · Politecnico di Milano
  2. 2026
    GMPA: Enhancing Continual Learning with Rehearsal-Based Method via Gaussian Mixture Prototype AugmentationTrang Pham, Viet Xuan-Quang Trinh, Xuan-Hung Ho … Duc-Trong LeSpringer CCIS
  3. 2026
    IOF-DP: Iterative Inner-Outer Fusion with Dual-Projection for Exemplar-Free Class Incremental LearningThi Thanh-Nga Hoang, Mai Thanh-Thu Nguyen, Quang-Tri Nguyen … Thi Quynh-Trang PhamSpringer CCIS
  4. 2026
    Multi-subspace SVD Generators for Continual LearningChristiaan Lamers, Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Thomas Bäck, Niki van SteinSpringer CCIS · NORCE Research AS · Leiden University · +1
  5. 2025
    Restoring Neural Network Plasticity for Faster Transfer LearningXander Coetzer, Arné Schreuder, Anna Sergeevna BosmanSpringer CCIS · University of Pretoria
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  6. 2025
    SEDEG:Sequential Enhancement of Decoder and Encoder's Generality for Class Incremental Learning with Small MemoryShaoling Pu, Hongyang Chen, Lingyu Zheng, Zhongwu SunSpringer CCIS · Zhejiang Lab · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  7. 2025
    Entropy-Guided Self-regulated Learning Without Forgetting for Distribution-Shift Continual Learning with Blurred Task BoundariesRui Yang, Matthieu Grard, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming ChenSpringer CCIS · Lyon 1 Université · École Centrale de Lyon · +4
  8. 2025
  9. 2024
    Where to Forget: A New Attention Stability Metric for Continual Learning EvaluationHaojie Wang, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li, Fanman MengSpringer CCIS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  10. 2023
    Continual Learning with a Memory of Non-similar SamplesQilang Min, Juanjuan He, Yang Liuyan, Yue FuSpringer CCIS · Wuhan University of Science and Technology
  11. 2023
  12. 2022
    Metric Learning with Distillation for Overcoming Catastrophic ForgettingPiaoyao Yu, Juanjuan He, Qilang Min, Qi ZhuSpringer CCIS · Wuhan University of Science and Technology
  13. 2022
    Difficulty-Aware Mixup for Replay-based Continual LearningYu-Kai Ling, Ren Yang, Sheng‐De WangSpringer CCIS · National Taiwan University
  14. 2021
    Continual Learning with Differential PrivacyPradnya Desai, Phung Lai, NhatHai Phan, My T. ThaiSpringer CCIS · New Jersey Institute of Technology · University of Florida
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  15. 2021
    On robustness of generative representations against catastrophic forgettingWojciech Masarczyk, Kamil Rafał Deja, T. P. TrzcinskiSpringer CCIS · Warsaw University of Technology · Jagiellonian University
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  16. 2021
    NASIL: Neural Network Architecture Searching for Incremental Learning in Image ClassificationXianya Fu, Wenrui Li, Qiurui Chen … Rui WangSpringer CCIS · Beihang University · State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control
  17. 2021
    Self-supervised Continual Learning for Object Recognition in Image SequencesRuiqi Dai, Mathieu Lefort, Frédéric Armetta … Stefan DuffnerSpringer CCIS · Lyon 1 Université · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +3
  18. 2021
    Sparse Progressive Neural Networks for Continual LearningEsra Ergün, Behçet Uğur TöreyınSpringer CCIS · Istanbul Technical University
  19. 2017
    Pseudorehearsal Approach for Incremental Learning of Deep Convolutional Neural NetworksDiego Mellado, Carolina Saavedra, Stéren Chabert, Rodrigo SalasSpringer CCIS · University of Valparaíso
  20. 2016
    On Learning Parameters of Incremental Learning in Chaotic Neural NetworkToshinori Deguchi, Naohiro IshiiSpringer CCIS · National Institute of Technology, Gifu College · Aichi Institute of Technology
  21. 2010
    A Comparison between Growing and Variably Dense Self Organizing Maps for Incremental Learning in Hubel Weisel Models of Concept RepresentationNeo Choon kiat Daniel, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Luping Shi, Prahlad VadakkepatSpringer CCIS · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · Data Storage Institute · +1
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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