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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 From Each Other: Generalized Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +5
  2. 2026
    Robust incremental learning of visual concepts without catastrophic forgettingNicki Barari, Xin Lian, Christopher J. MacLellanCognitive Systems Research · Georgia Institute of Technology · Drexel University · +1
  3. 2024
    Efficient and Robust Continual Graph Learning for Graph Classification in BiologyDing Zhang, Jane Downer, Can Chen, Ren WangIEEE Transactions · Northwestern University · Illinois Institute of Technology · +1
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  4. 2025
    Flat Local Minima for Continual Learning on Semantic SegmentationZhongzhan Huang, Mingfu Liang, Senwei Liang, Shanshan ZhongSpringer LNCS · Sun Yat-sen University · Northwestern University · +1
  5. 2024
    Stability through plasticity: Finding robust memories through representational driftMaanasa Natrajan, James E. FitzgeraldbioRxiv · Northwestern University · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · +3
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  6. 2023
    InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud RepresentationJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Ender KonukoğluTNNLS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  7. 2020
    Efficient Architecture Search for Continual LearningQiang Gao, Zhipeng Luo, Diego Klabjan, Fengli ZhangTNNLS · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Northwestern University · +1
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  8. 2022
    Balancing Between Forgetting and Acquisition in Incremental Subpopulation LearningMingfu Liang, Jiahuan Zhou, Wei Wei, Ying WuSpringer LNCS · Northwestern University · Peking University
  9. 2021
    Continual Neural Network Model RetrainingXiaofeng Zhu, Diego KlabjanIEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) · Microsoft (United States) · Northwestern University
  10. 2021
    FLAR: A Unified Prototype Framework for Few-sample Lifelong Active RecognitionLei Fan, Peixi Xiong, Wei Wei, Ying WuICCV · Northwestern University
  11. 2019
    Frosting Weights for Better Continual TrainingXiaofeng Zhu, Feng Liu, Goce Trajcevski, Dingding WangICML · Northwestern University · Florida Atlantic University · +1
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  12. 2007
    Incremental Learning of Perceptual Categories for Open-Domain Sketch RecognitionAndrew Lovett, Morteza Dehghani, Kenneth D. ForbusUS Dept of the Navy · Northwestern University
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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