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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
    Routing without ForgettingA. Masano, Giovanni Bellitto, Dipam Goswani … C. SpampinatoarXiv
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  3. 2025
    Addressing The Devastating Effects Of Single-Task Data Poisoning In Exemplar-Free Continual LearningS. Pawlak, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Tomasz Trzcinski, Joost van de WeijerarXiv
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  4. 2022
    Exemplar-Free Continual Learning of Vision Transformers via Gated Class-Attention and Cascaded Feature Drift CompensationMarco Cotogni, Fei Yang, Claudio Cusano … Joost van de WeijerInternational Journal of Computer Vision · University of Pavia · BGI Group (China) · +4
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  5. 2025
    Deep Continual Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Dagstuhl Seminar 25432)Christopher Kanan, Martin Mundt, T. Tuytelaars … Timm HessDagstuhl Reports
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  7. 2024
    Improving Continual Learning Performance and Efficiency with Auxiliary ClassifiersFilip Szatkowski, Yaoyue Zheng, Fei Yang … Joost van de WeijerICML
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  8. 2023
    FeCAM: Exploiting the Heterogeneity of Class Distributions in Exemplar-Free Continual LearningDipam Goswami, Yuyang Liu, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Joost van de WeijerNeurIPS
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  9. 2023
    Plasticity-Optimized Complementary Networks for Unsupervised Continual LearningAlex Gomez-Villa, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Kai Wang, Joost van de WeijerWACV
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  10. 2023
    Continual Evidential Deep Learning for Out-of-Distribution DetectionEduardo Aguilar, Bogdan Raducanu, P. Radeva, Joost van de WeijerICCV
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  11. 2023
    ScrollNet: Dynamic Weight Importance for Continual LearningFei Yang, Kai Wang, Joost van de WeijerICCV
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  12. 2023
    A Comprehensive Empirical Evaluation on Online Continual LearningAlbin Soutif-Cormerais, Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu … Hamed HematiICCV
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  13. 2023
    Augmented Box Replay: Overcoming Foreground Shift for Incremental Object DetectionLiu Yu-yang, Cong Yang, Dipam Goswami … Joost van de WeijerICCV
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  14. 2023
    Improving Online Continual Learning Performance and Stability with Temporal EnsemblesAlbin Soutif-Cormerais, Antonio Carta, Joost van de WeijerCoLLAs
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  15. 2023
    Endpoints Weight Fusion for Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationJianqiang Xiao, Chang-Bin Zhang, Jiekang Feng … Mingg-Ming ChengCVPR
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  17. 2023
    Projected Latent Distillation for Data-Agnostic Consolidation in Distributed Continual LearningAntonio Carta, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo Lomonaco … Joost van de WeijerNeurocomputing
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  18. 2023
    ICICLE: Interpretable Class Incremental Continual LearningD. Rymarczyk, Joost van de Weijer, Bartosz Zieli'nski, Bartłomiej TwardowskiICCV
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  19. 2023
    Towards Label-Efficient Incremental Learning: A SurveyMert Kilickaya, Joost van de Weijer, Yuki M. AsanoarXiv
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  20. 2022
    Attribution-aware Weight Transfer: A Warm-Start Initialization for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationDipam Goswami, René Schuster, Joost van de Weijer, Didier StrickerWACV · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence · Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani · +2
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  21. 2020
    Class-Incremental Learning: Survey and Performance Evaluation on Image ClassificationMarc Masana, Xialei Liu, Bartłomiej Twardowski … Joost van de WeijerTPAMI · Computer Vision Center
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  22. 2021
    Continually Learning Self-Supervised Representations with Projected Functional RegularizationAlex Gomez-Villa, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Yu Lu … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Tianjin University of Technology · +1
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  23. 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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  24. 2020
    Self-Training for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationLu Yu, Xialei Liu, Joost van de WeijerTNNLS · Tianjin University of Technology · Nankai University · +1
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  25. 2022
  26. 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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  27. 2021
    On the importance of cross-task features for class-incremental learningAlbin Soutif--Cormerais, Marc Masana, Joost van de Weijer, Bartłomiej TwardowskiarXiv
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  28. 2021
    Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual LearningVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Cossu … Davide MaltoniCVPR · University of Pisa · University of Bologna · +12
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  29. 2021
    Ternary Feature Masks: zero-forgetting for task-incremental learningMarc Masana, Tinne Tuytelaars, Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Barcelona Supercomputing Center · +2
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  30. 2021
    Continual learning in cross-modal retrievalKai Wang, Luis Herranz, Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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  31. 2021
    HCV: Hierarchy-Consistency Verification for Incremental Implicitly-Refined ClassificationKai Wang, Xialei Liu, Luis Herranz, Joost van de WeijerBMVC · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Nankai University
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  32. 2020
    RATT: Recurrent Attention to Transient Tasks for Continual Image CaptioningRiccardo Del Chiaro, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Joost van de WeijerNeurIPS
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  33. 2020
    Disentanglement of Color and Shape Representations for Continual LearningDavid Berga, Marc Masana, Joost van de WeijerarXiv
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  34. 2020
    On Class Orderings for Incremental LearningMarc Masana, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Joost van de WeijerarXiv
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  35. 2020
    Bookworm continual learning: beyond zero-shot learning and continual learningKai Wang, Luis Herranz, Anjan Dutta, Joost van de WeijerarXiv · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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  36. 2020
    Semantic Drift Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningLu Yu, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Xialei Liu … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +1
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  37. 2020
    Generative Feature Replay For Class-Incremental LearningXialei Liu, Chenshen Wu, Mikel Menta … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · University of Florence · +1
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  38. 2020
    Ternary Feature Masks: continual learning without any forgettingMarc Masana, T. Tuytelaars, Joost van de WeijerarXiv
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  39. 2018
    Rotate your Networks: Better Weight Consolidation and Less Catastrophic ForgettingXialei Liu, Marc Masana, Luis Herranz … Andrew D. BagdanovICPR · Computer Vision Center · University of Florence
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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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