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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. 2025
    Few-Shot Audio-Visual Class-Incremental Learning with Temporal Prompting and RegularizationYawen Cui, Li Liu, Zitong Yu … Xiaopeng HongAAAI · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Great Bay University · +1
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  2. 2023
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning for Classification and Object Detection: A SurveyJinghua Zhang, Li Liu, Olli Sílven … Dewen HuTPAMI · National University of Defense Technology · University of Oulu
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  3. 2025
    CMoA: Contrastive Mixture of Adapters for Generalized Few-Shot Continual LearningYawen Cui, Jian Zhao, Zitong Yu … Xuelong LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · China Telecom (China) · +6
  4. 2024
    Prior-free Balanced Replay: Uncertainty-guided Reservoir Sampling for Long-Tailed Continual LearningLei Liu, Li Liu, Yawen CuiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · +3
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  5. 2024
    Less confidence, less forgetting: Learning with a humbler teacher in exemplar-free Class-Incremental learningZijian Gao, Kele Xu, Huiping Zhuang … Huaimin WangNeural Networks · National University of Defense Technology · South China University of Technology · +2
  6. 2022
    Rethinking Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning With Open-Set Hypothesis in Hyperbolic GeometryYawen Cui, Zitong Yu, Wei Peng … Li LiuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · Great Bay University · +3
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  7. 2023
    Uncertainty-Aware Distillation for Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYawen Cui, Wanxia Deng, Haoyu Chen, Li LiuTNNLS · University of Oulu · National University of Defense Technology
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  9. 2023
    Lifelong Fine-Grained Image RetrievalWei Chen, Haoyang Xu, Nan Pu … Michael S. LewIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xidian University · Leiden University · +2
  10. 2023
    Uncertainty-Guided Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning With Knowledge DistillationYawen Cui, Wanxia Deng, Xin Xu … Li LiuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · National University of Defense Technology
  11. 2021
    Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYawen Cui, Wuti Xiong, Mohammad Tavakolian, Li LiuICIP · University of Oulu · National University of Defense Technology
  12. 2022
    Feature Estimations Based Correlation Distillation for Incremental Image RetrievalWei Chen, Yu Liu, Nan Pu … Michael S. LewIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Leiden University · Dalian University of Technology · +1
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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