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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
    TTMC: Brain-Inspired Test-Time Memory Calibration with Orthogonal Projection for Online Continual LearningYuyang Han, Ziyu Li, Diwei Su … Xia WuKDD · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +1
  2. 2026
    SEDLA: Feature-incremental learning with deep neural networks for functional regressionYujing Shen, Bin Zou, Yude Bu, Yang ZhouExpert Systems with Applications · Shandong University · Hubei University · +1
  3. 2026
    Learning forward-compatible and domain-invariant representations for cross-domain few-shot class-incremental learningWeidong Shi, Xudong Yan, Jiazheng Yuan … Songhe FengNeural Networks · Beijing Jiaotong University · Beijing Normal University · +3
  4. 2026
    The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma Revisited: A Brain-Inspired Continual Learning Method with Representation-Function SeparationYuyang Han, Li Z, Zhiying Long, Xia WuICASSP · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  5. 2026
    Boosting Few-Shot Continual Learning via Self-Adaptive EvolutionZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Yue Wang … Zhen CuiTIP · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University · +2
  6. 2025
    FedART: Enhancing Replay in Federated Incremental LearningZijiang Tan, Haodi Wang, Libin Jiao, Rongfang BieACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Beijing Normal University · City University of Hong Kong · +1
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  7. 2025
    Rethinking softmax in incremental learningZheng Zhai, Jiali Zhang, Haiyu Wang … Qiang SunNeural Networks · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University · Beijing Normal University · +4
  8. 2025
    CLIP-driven Few-Shot Continual LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Zhen CuiIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beijing Normal University
  9. 2025
    CALM: A Ubiquitous Crowdsourced Analytic Learning Mechanism for Continual Service Construction with Data Privacy PreservationKejia Fan, Yajiang Huang, Jingyu He … Yunhuai LiuACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technol… · Central South University · University of Pennsylvania · +6
  10. 2026
    Subnetwork Knowledge Injection and Transferable Parameter Updating Strategy for Continual Learning of Vision-and-Language TasksJiong Wang, Qing Zhang, Jie Liu … Yinqiao LiIEEE TAI · Beijing Normal University · North China University of Technology · +2
  11. 2025
    Prototypical Replay with Old-class Focusing Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionZesheng Liu, Qiannan Zhu, Cuiping Li, Hong ChenAAAI · Renmin University of China · Beijing Normal University
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  12. 2025
    Learn and Ensemble Bridge Adapters for Multi-domain Task Incremental LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Wenxuan Fang … Zhen CuiNeurIPS · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Google (United States) · +1
  13. 2024
    Uncertainty-based Continual Learning for Neural Networks with Low-rank Variance MatricesXuan Rao, Bo Zhao, Derong LiuIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · Beijing Normal University · Southern University of Science and Technology
  14. 2024
    A Novel Sleep Mechanism Inspired Continual Learning AlgorithmYuyang Han, Xiuxing Li, Tianyuan Jia … Xia WuGuidance Navigation and Control · Beijing Institute of Technology · Beijing Normal University
  15. 2023
    An ANN-Guided Approach to Task-Free Continual Learning with Spiking Neural NetworksJ. S. Zhang, Wentao Fan, Xin LiuSpringer LNCS · Huaqiao University · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University · +2
  16. 2022
    Lifelong Learning for Human-Object Interaction DetectionBo Sun, Sixu Lu, Jun He … Yinghui ZhangIEEE 10th International Conference on Information, Commun… · Beijing Normal University
  17. 2022
    Improve the Performance and Stability of Incremental Learning by a Similarity Harmonizing MechanismJing Ma, Mingjie Liao, Lei ZhangIEEE Access · Beijing Normal University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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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. 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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