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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
    Learning sculpts orthogonal task manifolds for continual skill learning in recurrent networksZihan Liu, Anno C. Kurth, Yuma Osako, Toshitake AsabukibioRxiv · Chinese University of Hong Kong · RIKEN Center for Brain Science · +2
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  2. 2026
    Dual Domain-Attribute Learning Framework With Asynchronous Adapters for Continual Test-Time AdaptationYuntong Tian, Kang Li, Tianyang He … Wei FengTIP · Tianjin University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +1
  3. 2025
    Using Knowledge Replay Strategy to Help Improve the VLM Performance in Embodied RobotsFangyuan Ren, Jiayi Xu, Z. Zheng … Fei ChenIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics… · Ningbo University · Ningbo University of Technology · +1
  4. 2025
    Diffuse&Refine: Intrinsic Knowledge Generation and Aggregation for Incremental Object DetectionJianzhou Wang, Yirui Wu, Lixin Yuan … Wenhai WangIJCAI · Hohai University · Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China · +5
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  5. 2026
    Rethinking softmax in incremental learningZheng Zhai, Jiali Zhang, Haiyu Wang … Qiang SunNeural Networks · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University · Beijing Normal University · +4
  6. 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
  7. 2025
    ReFNet: Rehearsal-based graph lifelong learning with multi-resolution framelet graph neural networksMing Li, Xiaoyi Yang, Yuting Chen … Qintai HuInformation Sciences · Zhejiang Normal University · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +1
  8. 2025
    Gradient-Guided Epsilon Constraint Method for Online Continual LearningSong Lai, Changyi Ma, Fei Zhu … Qingfu ZhangNeurIPS · City University of Hong Kong · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +4
  9. 2024
    Purified Distillation: Bridging Domain Shift and Category Gap in Incremental Object DetectionShilong Jia, Tingting Wu, Yingying Fang … Zhi LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · East China Normal University · Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +1
  10. 2025
    Adaptive Synaptic Scaling in Spiking Networks for Continual Learning and Enhanced RobustnessMingkun Xu, Faqiang Liu, Yifan Hu … Lei DengTNNLS · Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology · Tsinghua University · +2
  11. 2023
    Preventing Zero-Shot Transfer Degradation in Continual Learning of Vision-Language ModelsZangwei Zheng, Mingyuan Ma, Kai Wang … Yang YouICCV · National University of Singapore · Berkeley College · +2
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  12. 2021
    Flattening Sharpness for Dynamic Gradient Projection Memory Benefits Continual LearningDanruo Deng, Guangyong Chen, Jianye Hao … Pheng‐Ann HengNeurIPS · Chinese University of Hong Kong · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +1
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  13. 2021
    Gradient Regularized Contrastive Learning for Continual Domain AdaptationShixiang Tang, Peng Su, Dapeng Chen, Wanli OuyangAAAI · The University of Sydney · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +1
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  14. 2020
    IROS 2019 Lifelong Robotic Vision: Object Recognition Challenge [Competitions]Heechul Bae, Eoin Brophy, Rosa H. M. Chan … Liguang ZhouIEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute · Dublin City University · +9
  15. 2019
    Learning a Unified Classifier Incrementally via RebalancingSaihui Hou, Xinyu Pan, Chen Change Loy … Dahua LinCVPR · University of Science and Technology of China · XLAB (Slovenia) · +3
  16. 2018
    Lifelong Learning via Progressive Distillation and RetrospectionSaihui Hou, Xinyu Pan, Chen Change Loy … Dahua LinECCV · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +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. 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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