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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. 2024
    Self-Expansion of Pre-trained Models with Mixture of Adapters for Continual LearningHuiyi Wang, Haodong Lu, Lina Yao, Dong GongCVPR · UNSW Sydney · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +1
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  2. 2025
    Balancing Plasticity and Stability via Dual-Branch Learning in Online Continual LearningXu Han, Haodong Lu, Huiyi Wang, Dong GongCompanion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 · UNSW Sydney
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  3. 2024
    Advancing Continual Learning for Robust Deepfake Audio ClassificationFeiyi Dong, Qingchen Tang, Yichen Bai, Zihan WangTENCON 2024 - 2024 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON) · UNSW Sydney
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  4. 2024
    Continual Multi-View Clustering with Consistent Anchor GuidanceWei Hua, Chenlin Zhou, Jibin Wu … Yangyang ShuIJCAI · Nanjing University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  5. 2024
    Exploring Soft Prompt Initialization Strategy for Few-Shot Continual Text ClassificationZhehao Zhang, Tong Yu, Handong Zhao … Shuai LiICASSP · Dartmouth College · Dartmouth Hospital · +6
  6. 2022
    Efficient Bayesian Policy Reuse With a Scalable Observation Model in Deep Reinforcement LearningJinmei Liu, Zhi Wang, Chunlin Chen, Daoyi DongTNNLS · Nanjing University · University of Canberra · +1
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  7. 2022
    Uncertainty Estimation With Neural Processes for Meta-Continual LearningXuesong Wang, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang … Sen WangTNNLS · University of Technology Sydney · UNSW Sydney · +4
  8. 2022
    Learning Bayesian Sparse Networks with Full Experience Replay for Continual LearningQingsen Yan, Dong Gong, Yuhang Liu … Qinfeng ShiCVPR · Australian Centre for Robotic Vision · The University of Adelaide · +1
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  9. 2022
    Towards Exemplar-Free Continual Learning in Vision Transformers: an Account of Attention, Functional and Weight RegularizationFrancesco Pelosin, Saurav Jha, Andrea Torsello … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Ca' Foscari University of Venice · UNSW Sydney · +2
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  10. 2022
    A Dirichlet Process Mixture of Robust Task Models for Scalable Lifelong Reinforcement LearningZhi Wang, Chunlin Chen, Daoyi DongIEEE Trans. Cybernetics · Nanjing University · University of Canberra · +1
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  11. 2020
    Instance Weighted Incremental Evolution Strategies for Reinforcement Learning in Dynamic EnvironmentsZhi Wang, Chunlin Chen, Daoyi DongTNNLS · University of Canberra · UNSW Sydney · +1
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  12. 2021
    Plastic and Stable Gated Classifiers for Continual LearningNicholas I-Hsien Kuo, Mehrtash Harandi, Nicolas Fourrier … Hanna SuominenCVPR · Australian National University · UNSW Sydney · +5
  13. 2020
    Lifelong Incremental Reinforcement Learning With Online Bayesian InferenceZhi Wang, Chunlin Chen, Daoyi DongTNNLS · Nanjing University · University of Canberra · +1
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  14. 2019
    Incremental Reinforcement Learning With Prioritized Sweeping for Dynamic EnvironmentsZhi Wang, Chunlin Chen, Han‐Xiong Li … Tzyh‐Jong TarnIEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · Nanjing University · Central South University · +3
  15. 2017
    Continual LearningClaude Sammut, Geoffrey I. WebbEncyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining · UNSW Sydney · Monash 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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