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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
    Continual-GraphLLM: Dynamic Graph Large Language Model with Invariance Regularized Adaptive Multi-Scale ExpertsTianhang Wan, Xin Wang, Haibo Chen … Wenwu ZhuKDD · Tsinghua University · Alibaba Group (China)
  2. 2025
    A New Model for Prototype-based Continual Learning in Hyperspherical SpaceYixin Ren, Yewei Xia, Ke Li … Shuigeng ZhouICASSP · Fudan University · Alibaba Group (China)
  3. 2024
    M2SD: Multiple Mixing Self-Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJinhao Lin, Ziheng Wu, Weifeng Lin … Ronghua LuoAAAI · Alibaba Group (China) · South China University of Technology · +1
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  4. 2023
    Incremental Graph Classification by Class Prototype Construction and AugmentationYixin Ren, Li Ke, Dong Li … Shuigeng ZhouCIKM · Fudan University · Alibaba Group (China)
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  5. 2023
    Incremental Image De-raining via Associative MemoryYi Gu, Chao Wang, Jie LiAAAI · Alibaba Group (China) · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  6. 2023
    Continual Few-shot Learning with Transformer Adaptation and Knowledge RegularizationXin Wang, Yue Liu, Jiapei Fan … Wenwu ZhuACM Web Conference 2023 · Tsinghua University · Alibaba Group (China)
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  7. 2022
    Incremental Embedding Learning With Disentangled Representation TranslationKun Wei, Da Chen, Yuhong Li … Dacheng TaoTNNLS · Xidian University · Alibaba Group (China) · +1
  8. 2022
    Streaming Graph Neural Networks with Generative ReplayJunshan Wang, Wenhao Zhu, Guojie Song, Liang WangKDD · Alibaba Group (China) · Peking University
  9. 2021
    MeLL: Large-scale Extensible User Intent Classification for Dialogue Systems with Meta Lifelong LearningChengyu Wang, Haojie Pan, Yuan Liu … Deng CaiACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data M… · Alibaba Group (China) · Zhejiang University
  10. 2020
    Streaming Graph Neural Networks via Continual LearningJunshan Wang, Guojie Song, Yi Wu, Liang WangCIKM · Peking University · Alibaba Group (China)
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  11. 2020
    Encoding primitives generation policy learning for robotic arm to overcome catastrophic forgetting in sequential multi-tasks learningFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Amir HussainNeural Networks · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +7
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 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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