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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
    Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Continual Learning: A Neural Tangent Kernel PerspectiveJingren Liu, Zhong Ji, Yunlong Yu … Xuelong LiTPAMI · Tianjin University · Zhejiang University · +3
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  2. 2026
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Language Adaptation of LLMs via Source-Shielded UpdatesAtsuki Yamaguchi, Terufumi Morishita, Aline Villavicencio, Νικόλαος ΑλέτραςACL · University of Sheffield · Hitachi (Japan)
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  3. 2025
    SPOT: An efficient training-free task similarity quantification method for continual learningXulong Wang, Yu Zhang, Tong Liu … Po YangPattern Recognition Letters · University of Sheffield · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  4. 2024
    On the Approximation Risk of Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXuan Wang, Zhong Ji, Xiyao Liu … Jungong HanECCV · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
  5. 2025
    Imbalance Mitigation for Continual Learning via Knowledge Decoupling and Dual Enhanced Contrastive LearningZhong Ji, Zhanyu Jiao, Qiang Wang … Jungong HanTNNLS · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
  6. 2024
    Model Attention Expansion for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXuan Wang, Zhong Ji, Yunlong Yu … Jungong HanTIP · Tianjin University · Zhejiang University · +1
  7. 2021
    Variance Guided Continual Learning in a Convolutional Neural Network Gaussian Process Single Classifier Approach for Multiple Tasks in Noisy ImagesMahed Javed, Lyudmila Mihaylova, Nidhal BouaynayaInformation Fusion · University of Sheffield · Rowan University
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  8. 2019
    SpaRCe: Improved Learning of Reservoir Computing Systems Through Sparse RepresentationsLuca Manneschi, Andrew C. Lin, Eleni VasilakiTNNLS · University of Sheffield
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  9. 2020
    Findings of the First Shared Task on Lifelong Learning Machine TranslationLoïc Barrault, Magdalena Biesialska, Marta R. Costa‐jussà … Olivier GalibertEMNLP · University of Sheffield · Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · +2
  10. 2019
    Continual Multi-task Gaussian ProcessesPablo Moreno-Muñoz, Antonio Artés-Rodrı́guez, Mauricio A. ÁlvarezarXiv · Universidad Carlos III de Madrid · University of Sheffield
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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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