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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
    FSE: Continual learning for named entity recognition by fast-slow expertsYunan Zhang, Yang Fan, Heng Li … Qingcai ChenPattern Recognition Letters
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  2. 2025
    SPOT: An efficient training-free task similarity quantification method for continual learningXu-Long Wang, Yu Zhang, Tong Liu … Po YangPattern Recognition Letters
  3. 2025
    Completely Weakly Supervised Class-Incremental Learning for Semantic SegmentationDavid Kim, Soeun Lee, Byeongkeun KangPattern Recognition Letters
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  4. 2025
    Re-examine all-in-one image restoration: A catastrophic forgetting perspectiveChen Wu, Pu Wang, Zhuo-Ran ZhengPattern Recognition Letters
  5. 2024
    FCL-ViT: Task-Aware Attention Tuning for Continual LearningAnestis Kaimakamidis, Ioannis PitasPattern Recognition Letters
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  6. 2024
    Adaptive knowledge transfer for class incremental learningZhikun Feng, Mian Zhou, Zan Gao … Chuan-Hui LiPattern Recognition Letters
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  8. 2024
    Continual learning for adaptive social network identificationSimone Magistri, Daniele Baracchi, Dasara Shullani … Alessandro PivaPattern Recognition Letters
  9. 2024
    Example forgetting and rehearsal in continual learningBeatrix BenkőPattern Recognition Letters
  10. 2023
    CaSpeR: Latent Spectral Regularization for Continual LearningEmanuele Frascaroli, Riccardo Benaglia, Matteo Boschini … S. CalderaraPattern Recognition Letters
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  11. 2022
    Rethinking class orders and transferability in class incremental learningChen He, Ruiping Wang, Xilin ChenPattern Recognition Letters · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
  12. 2021
    Continual semi-supervised learning through contrastive interpolation consistencyMatteo Boschini, Pietro Buzzega, Lorenzo Bonicelli … Simone CalderaraPattern Recognition Letters · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  13. 2021
    ACAE-REMIND for Online Continual Learning with Compressed Feature ReplayKai Wang, Joost van de Weijer, Luis HerranzPattern Recognition Letters · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Computer Vision Center
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  14. 2020
    Faster ILOD: Incremental Learning for Object Detectors based on Faster RCNNCan Peng, Kun Zhao, Brian C. LovellPattern Recognition Letters · The University of Queensland
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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. 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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