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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
    Lifelong Learning of Large Language Model Based Agents: A RoadmapJunhao Zheng, Chengming Shi, Xidi Cai … Qianli MaTPAMI · South China University of Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +2
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  2. 2025
    Information-Theoretic Complementary Prompts for Improved Continual Text ClassificationDuzhen Zhang, Duzhen Zhang, Yong Ren … Tielin ZhangNeural Networks · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tencent (China) · +2
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  3. 2025
    Exploring Stability-Plasticity Trade-Offs for Continual Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Chenxing Li, Jiahua Dong … Dong YuIEEE Transactions · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Tencent (China) · +3
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  4. 2024
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting Through Knowledge Transfer and Weighted Loss Integration in Continual LearningLin Zhong, Qingya Sui, Yuki Todo … Shangce GaoInternational Conference on Networking, Sensing and Contr… · University of Toyama · Kanazawa University · +1
  5. 2023
    Power Norm Based Lifelong Learning for Paraphrase GenerationsDingcheng Li, Peng Yang, Yue Zhang, Ping LiSIGIR · Bellevue Hospital Center
  6. 2022
    Latent Coreset Sampling based Data-Free Continual LearningZhuoyi Wang, Dingcheng Li, Ping LiACM International Conference on Information & Knowled… · Bellevue Hospital Center
  7. 2022
    Continual Learning for Natural Language Generations with Transformer CalibrationPeng Yang, Dingcheng Li, Ping LiCoNLL · Bellevue Hospital Center · Cognitive Research (United States)
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  8. 2018
    Deep Face Detector Adaptation Without Negative Transfer or Catastrophic ForgettingMuhammad Abdullah Jamal, Haoxiang Li, Boqing GongJournal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Re… · University of Central Florida · Adobe Systems (United States) · +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 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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