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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
    Overcoming Dual Drift for Continual Long-Tailed Visual Question AnsweringFeifei Zhang, Zhihao Wang, Xi Zhang, Changsheng XuICCV · Tianjin University of Technology · Alibaba Group (United States) · +1
  2. 2025
    pFedMxF: Personalized Federated Class-incremental Learning with Mixture of Frequency AggregationYifei Zhang, Hao Zhu, Alysa Ziying Tan … Han YuCVPR · Nanyang Technological University · Data Management (Italy) · +2
  3. 2025
    Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMsJun Wang, Liang Ding, Shuai Wang … Bo DuNeurIPS · The University of Sydney · Wuhan University · +2
  4. 2023
    Decouple Before Interact: Multi-Modal Prompt Learning for Continual Visual Question AnsweringZi Qian, Xin Wang, Xuguang Duan … Wenwu ZhuICCV · Alibaba Group (United States) · Tsinghua University
  5. 2023
    Space-time Prompting for Video Class-incremental LearningYixuan Pei, Zhiwu Qing, Shiwei Zhang … Xueming QianICCV · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +1
  6. 2023
    Self-Organizing Pathway Expansion for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental LearningK. J. Zhu, Kecheng Zheng, Ruili Feng … Zheng-Jun ZhaICCV · University of Science and Technology of China · Alibaba Group (United States) · +1
  7. 2023
    Foundation Model Drives Weakly Incremental Learning for Semantic SegmentationChaohui Yu, Qiang Zhou, Jingliang Li … Fan WangCVPR · Alibaba Group (United States) · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  8. 2022
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Object Detection via Elastic Response DistillationTao Feng, Mang Wang, Hangjie YuanCVPR · Alibaba Group (United States) · Zhejiang University
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  9. 2021
    Asynchronous Teacher Guided Bit-wise Hard Mining for Online HashingSheng Jin, Qin Zhou, Hongxun Yao … Xian‐Sheng HuaAAAI · Harbin Institute of Technology · Alibaba Group (United States)
  10. 2021
    Continual Learning for Neural Machine TranslationYue Cao, Haoran Wei, Boxing Chen, Xiaojun WanNAACL · Peking University · Alibaba Group (United States)
  11. 2020
    Learning to Segment the TailXinting Hu, Yi Jiang, Kaihua Tang … Hanwang ZhangCVPR · Nanyang Technological University · Alibaba Group (United States) · +1
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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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