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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Time Series Class-Incremental Learning via Confidence-guided Mask Distillation and Prototype-guided Contrastive LearningYu Liu, Haoqin Yang, Jinping Sui … Qi JiaAAAI · Dalian University of Technology · United States Naval Academy · +1
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  2. 2022
    Lifelong Fine-Grained Image RetrievalWei Chen, Haoyang Xu, Nan Pu … Michael S. LewIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xidian University · Leiden University · +2
  3. 2022
    Meta Reconciliation Normalization for Lifelong Person Re-IdentificationNan Pu, Yu Liu, Wei Chen … Michael S. LewACM International Conference on Multimedia · Leiden University · Dalian University of Technology
  4. 2021
    Lifelong Person Re-Identification via Adaptive Knowledge AccumulationNan Pu, Wei Chen, Yu Liu … Michael S. LewCVPR · Leiden University · Dalian University of Technology
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  5. 2021
    Feature Estimations Based Correlation Distillation for Incremental Image RetrievalWei Chen, Yu Liu, Nan Pu … Michael S. LewIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Leiden University · Dalian University of Technology · +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. It lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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