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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
    RESOURCE-EFFICIENT TRAINING ALGORITHMS FOR DEEP LEARNINGSakshi ChoudharyPurdue · Purdue University West Lafayette
  2. 2026
    Exploring the Potential of Class-Specific Encoding for Few-Shot Object DetectionWei Zhou, Zongling Li, Shu Hu … Xin WangIEEE TETCI · Chengdu University of Information Technology · Purdue University West Lafayette · +3
  3. 2024
    CODE-CL: Conceptor-Based Gradient Projection for Deep Continual LearningMarco Paul E. Apolinario, Sakshi Choudhary, Kaushik RoyICCV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  4. 2025
    CL-LoRA: Continual Low-Rank Adaptation for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental LearningJiangpeng He, Zhihao Duan, Fengqing ZhuCVPR · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  5. 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
  6. 2024
    DELTA: Decoupling Long-Tailed Online Continual LearningSiddeshwar Raghavan, Jiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuCVPR · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  7. 2024
    Learning to Classify New Foods Incrementally Via Compressed ExemplarsJustin Yang, Zhihao Duan, Jiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuCVPR · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  8. 2024
    Towards Backward-Compatible Continual Learning of Image CompressionZhihao Duan, Ming Lu, Justin Yang … Fengqing ZhuCVPR · Purdue University West Lafayette · Nanjing University
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  9. 2024
    Probing Image Compression for Class-Incremental LearningJustin Yang, Zhihao Duan, Andrew C. Peng … Fengqing ZhuPicture Coding Symposium (PCS) · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  10. 2024
    A collective AI via lifelong learning and sharing at the edgeAndrea Soltoggio, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Vladimir Braverman … Soheil KolouriNature Machine Intelligence · Loughborough University · Rice University · +21
  11. 2024
    Continual Learning: A Review of Techniques, Challenges, and Future DirectionsBuddhi Wickramasinghe, Gobinda Saha, Kaushik RoyIEEE TAI · Purdue University West Lafayette
  12. 2023
    Online continual learning with saliency-guided experience replay using tiny episodic memoryGobinda Saha, Kaushik RoyMachine Vision and Applications · Purdue University West Lafayette
  13. 2021
    Saliency Guided Experience Packing for Replay in Continual LearningGobinda Saha, Kaushik RoyWACV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  14. 2022
    Exemplar-Free Online Continual LearningJiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuICIP · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  15. 2022
    Task Detection in Continual Learning via Familiarity AutoencodersMaxwell J. Jacobson, Case Q. Wright, Nan Jiang … Yexiang XueIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybern… · Purdue University West Lafayette
  16. 2021
    Unsupervised Continual Learning Via Pseudo LabelsJiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuSpringer LNCS · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  17. 2021
    Online Continual Learning Via Candidates VotingJiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuWACV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  18. 2021
    Online Continual Learning For Visual Food ClassificationJiangpeng He, Fengqing ZhuICCV · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  19. 2021
    AlterSGD: Finding Flat Minima for Continual Learning by Alternative TrainingZhongzhan Huang, Mingfu Liang, Senwei Liang, Wei HearXiv · Purdue University West Lafayette · Nanyang Technological University
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  20. 2021
    Gradient Projection Memory for Continual LearningGobinda Saha, Garg, Isha, Roy, KaushikICLR · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  21. 2020
    SPACE: Structured Compression and Sharing of Representational Space for Continual LearningGobinda Saha, Isha Garg, Aayush Ankit, Kaushik RoyIEEE Access · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  22. 2020
    Incremental Learning in Online ScenarioJiangpeng He, Runyu Mao, Zeman Shao, Fengqing ZhuCVPR · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  24. 2017
    Incremental Learning in Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Partial Network SharingSyed Shakib Sarwar, Aayush Ankit, Kaushik RoyIEEE Access · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  25. 2018
    Tree-CNN: A hierarchical Deep Convolutional Neural Network for incremental learningDeboleena Roy, Priyadarshini Panda, Kaushik RoyNeural Networks · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  26. 2017
    ASP: Learning to Forget With Adaptive Synaptic Plasticity in Spiking Neural NetworksPriyadarshini Panda, Jason M. Allred, Shriram Ramanathan, Kaushik RoyIEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits… · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  27. 2017
    Habituation based synaptic plasticity and organismic learning in a quantum perovskiteFan Zuo, Priyadarshini Panda, Michele Kotiuga … Shriram RamanathanNature Communications · Purdue University West Lafayette · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · +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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