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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
    Leveraging multi-modal and historical knowledge graphs for continual robot navigationLin Zhang, Longyue Qian, Ruitong Li … Wei ZhangVisual Intelligence · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Shandong University · +2
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  2. 2025
    Developing Evolving Adaptability in Biological Intelligence: A Novel Biologically-Inspired Continual Learning Model for Video Saliency PredictionDandan Zhu, Kaiwei Zhang, Kun Zhu … Xiaokang YangTPAMI · East China Normal University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · +3
  3. 2025
    Bamboo: A Novel Session-Aware Framework With Equiangular Tight Frame Prototypes for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXinrong Lu, Zhe Wang, Zhiling Fu … Wenli DuTNNLS · East China University of Science and Technology · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
  4. 2025
    BFCP: Pursue Better Forward Compatibility Pretraining for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhiling Fu, Zhe Wang, Xinlei Xu … Wenli DuTNNLS · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · East China University of Science and Technology
  5. 2025
    Multi-view prototype balance and temporary proxy constraint for exemplar-free class-incremental learningHeng Tian, Qian Zhang, Zhe Wang … Zhiling FuApplied Intelligence · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · East China University of Science and Technology
  6. 2025
    Prompt-Based Concept Learning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShuo Li, Fang Liu, Licheng Jiao … Wenping MaIEEE TCSVT · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Xidian University
  7. 2024
    Breaking Information Silos: Global Guided Task Prediction for Class-Incremental LearningChaoshun Hu, Biaohua Ye, Zixuan Chen, Jianhuang LaiSpringer LNCS · Sun Yat-sen University · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · +1
  8. 2024
    Layer-Specific Knowledge Distillation for Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationQilong Wang, Yiwen Wu, Yang Liu … Qinghua HuTIP · Tianjin University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
  9. 2023
    Learning to complement: Relation complementation network for few-shot class-incremental learningYe Wang, Yaxiong Wang, Guoshuai Zhao, Xueming QianKnowledge-Based Systems · Hefei University of Technology · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +1
  10. 2023
    When Prompt-based Incremental Learning Does Not Meet Strong PretrainingYuming Tang, Yi-Xing Peng, Wei‐Shi ZhengICCV · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
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  11. 2023
    Dynamic Residual Classifier for Class Incremental LearningXiuwei Chen, Xiaobin ChangICCV · Sun Yat-sen University · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · +1
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  12. 2023
    Discriminative Gradient Adjustment with Coupled Knowledge Distillation for Class Incremental LearningHao Zhang, Yanxu Hu, Jiawen Peng, J. AndyIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Sun Yat-sen University · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · +1
  13. 2022
    Incremental learning with neural networks for computer vision: a surveyHao Liu, Yong Zhou, Bing Liu … Zhiwen ShaoArtificial Intelligence Review · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · China University of Mining and Technology
  14. 2022
    Learning to Imagine: Diversify Memory for Incremental Learning using Unlabeled DataYu-Ming Tang, Yi-Xing Peng, Wei‐Shi ZhengCVPR · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
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  15. 2020
    Prototype-Based Discriminative Feature Representation for Class-incremental Cross-modal RetrievalShaoquan Zhu, Yong Feng, Mingliang Zhou … Ran WeiInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artifici… · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Chongqing University · +3
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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