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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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  2. 2025
    A Sequential Experience Network Based Continual Learning for Air Crisis Event RecognitionSheng-Jie Zhang, Xiaolian Jiang, Wei Xiao … Yang YangInternational Conference on Networking and Services
  3. 2025
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  5. 2025
    Feature Drift Oriented Distribution Reconstruction for Imbalanced Class Incremental LearningTingmin Li, Fengqiang Wan, Yi-Peng Lin, Yang YangEuropean Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  6. 2025
    R2A2-MoE: Ridge Regression-Based Analytic Adaptation with Mixture of Experts for Continual Learning with Vision-Language ModelsMaoqi Liu, Quan Fang, Junyu Gao, Yang YangChinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vi…
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  9. 2023
    C2MR: Continual Cross-Modal Retrieval for Streaming Multi-modal DataHuaiwen Zhang, Yang Yang, Fan Qi … Changsheng XuACM MM
  10. 2023
    Teacher Agent: A Knowledge Distillation-Free Framework for Rehearsal-Based Video Incremental LearningSheng-Qin Jiang, Yao-Huei Fang, Haokui Zhang … Peifeng WangInternational Journal of Computer Vision
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  13. 2022
    TVT: Three-Way Vision Transformer through Multi-Modal Hypersphere Learning for Zero-Shot Sketch-Based Image RetrievalJialin Tian, Xing Xu, Fumin Shen … Heng Tao ShenAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  14. 2021
    Learning to Classify With Incremental New ClassDa-Wei Zhou, Yang Yang, De-Chuan ZhanTNNLS · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
  15. 2020
    S2OSC: A Holistic Semi-Supervised Approach for Open Set ClassificationYang Yang, Hongchen Wei, Zhenqiang Sun … Jian YangACM Transactions · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +3
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  16. 2020
    Learning Adaptive Embedding Considering Incremental ClassYang Yang, Zhen-Qiang Sun, Hengshu Zhu … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +4
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  17. 2021
    Language Scaling for Universal Suggested Replies ModelQianlan Ying, Payal Bajaj, Budhaditya Deb … Daxin JiangNAACL · Microsoft (United States) · Microsoft Research Asia (China) · +3
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  18. 2019
    Learning from the Past: Continual Meta-Learning with Bayesian Graph Neural NetworksYadan Luo, Zi Huang, Zheng Zhang … Yang YangAAAI · The University of Queensland · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
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  19. 2019
    Adaptive Deep Models for Incremental Learning: Considering Capacity Scalability and SustainabilityYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De‐Chuan Zhan … Yuan JiangACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discover… · Nanjing University · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  20. 2019
    Memorized Variational Continual Learning for Dirichlet Process MixturesYang Yang, Bo Chen, Hongwei LiuIEEE Access · Xidian University
  21. 2019
    Entity Alignment Algorithm Based on Dual-Attention and Incremental Learning MechanismYang Yang, Maojie Hao, Yonghua Huo … Zhipeng GaoIEEE Access · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · State Grid Hebei Electric Power Company
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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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