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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
    Improving Open-world Continual Learning under the Constraints of Scarce Labeled DataYujie Li, Xiangkun Wang, Xin Yang … Tianrui LiKDD · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Leiden University · +2
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  2. 2025
    ErrorEraser: Unlearning Data Bias for Improved Continual LearningXuemei Cao, Hanlin Gu, Xin Yang … Tianrui LiKDD · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  3. 2025
    Handling Spatial-Temporal Data Heterogeneity for Federated Continual Learning via Tail AnchorHao Yu, Xin Yang, Le Zhang … Qiang YangCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
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  4. 2025
    Order-Robust Class Incremental Learning: Graph-Driven Dynamic Similarity GroupingGuangda Lai, Yujie Li, Xiangkun Wang … Xin YangCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  5. 2025
    Unleashing the Power of Continual Learning on Non-Centralized Devices: A SurveyYichen Li, Haozhao Wang, Wenchao Xu … Ruixuan LiIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +5
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  6. 2024
    Overcoming Spatial-Temporal Catastrophic Forgetting for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHao Yu, Xin Yang, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Sichuan University · +2
  7. 2024
    Personalized Federated Continual Learning via Multi-Granularity PromptHao Yu, Xin Yang, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiKDD · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Sichuan University · +3
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  8. 2024
    Open Continual Feature Selection via Granular-Ball Knowledge TransferXuemei Cao, Xin Yang, Shuyin Xia … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +1
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  9. 2024
    FedProK: Trustworthy Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Prototypical Feature Knowledge TransferXin Gao, Xin Yang, Hao Yu … Tianrui LiCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  10. 2024
    Federated Continual Learning via Knowledge Fusion: A SurveyXin Yang, Hao Yu, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Nanyang Technological University · +2
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  11. 2023
    CL-WSTC: Continual Learning for Weakly Supervised Text Classification on the InternetMiaomiao Li, Jiaqi Zhu, Xin Yang … Hongan WangACM Web Conference 2023 · Institute of Software · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  12. 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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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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