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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
  2. 2026
    Federated continual learning with joint diffusion-based generative replayYouhuizi Li, Yu Chen, Yiran Ma … Shuyuan HuApplied Soft Computing
  3. 2026
  4. 2026
    Distribution and expression aware retrospective learning for single-cell long-tailed class-incremental annotationTian-Hao Li, Zi-Xuan Wang, Chen-Peng Wu … Yong-Qing ZhangApplied Soft Computing
  5. 2026
    Continual learning with a predictive coding based classifierSenhui Qiu, Saugat Bhattacharyya, Damien Coyle, S. DoraApplied Soft Computing
  6. 2026
  7. 2025
    Plastic Distillation and Local Class Augment for Federated Class Incremental LearningWenyi Feng, Jianqiang Huang, Wandong XueApplied Soft Computing
  8. 2025
    A Dual-Channel Collaborative Transformer for continual learningHaonan Cai, Yizhe Wang, Yong Luo, Keming MaoApplied Soft Computing
  9. 2024
  10. 2024
  11. 2024
    Adaptive learning on hierarchical data streams using window-weighted Gaussian probabilitiesEduardo Tieppo, J. C. Nievola, J. P. BarddalApplied Soft Computing
  12. 2022
    ARNN-QA: Adaptive Recurrent Neural Network with feature optimization for incremental learning-based Question Answering systemM. Therasa, G. MathivananApplied Soft Computing · Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology
  13. 2021
    Adaptive online incremental learning for evolving data streamsSisi Zhang, Jian–wei Liu, Xin ZuoApplied Soft Computing · China University of Petroleum, Beijing
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  14. 2020
    ML-MDLText: An efficient and lightweight multilabel text classifier with incremental learningMarciele M. Bittencourt, Renato M. Silva, Tiago A. AlmeidaApplied Soft Computing · Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  15. 2020
    Continual learning classification method with new labeled data based on the artificial immune systemDong Li, Shulin Liu, Furong Gao, Xin SunApplied Soft Computing · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Changzhou University · +1
  16. 2019
    Feature selection based on brain storm optimization for data classificationFarhad Pourpanah, Yuhui Shi, Chee Peng Lim … Choo Jun TanApplied Soft Computing · Shenzhen University · Southern University of Science and Technology · +3
  17. 2018
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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