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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. 2026
    Cognitive Bifurcation: Dual-Progressive Causal Diffusion with Hippocampal Memory for Continual Graph LearningJiahao Liang, Carl Yang, Haoran Yang … Kaixiang YangKDD · South China University of Technology · Emory University · +2
  2. 2026
    Tabular continual learning from high-heterogeneity feature spaces via memory and forgetting dual-drivenYan Xian, Hong Yu, Yongfang Xie, Guoyin WangInformation Processing & Management · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Central South University · +1
  3. 2026
    CEFCIL: Comprehensive Ensemble Framework for Exemplar-Free Class Incremental LearningWei Liu, Cheng Zhu, Fan Wu … Q. LiuBig Data Mining and Analytics · National University of Defense Technology · Central South University
  4. 2026
    Towards Self-Evolving Agents: Enabling Autonomy through Interactive Experience RefinementCheng Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Licheng Wen … Haifeng LiACL · Central South University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
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  5. 2026
    Rethinking domain-agnostic continual learning via frequency completeness learningJian Peng, Haitao Zhang, Jing Shen … Haifeng LiInformation Fusion · Space Engineering University · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
  6. 2025
    Pursuing Better Representations: Balancing Discriminability and Transferability for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningQi Li, Wei Wang, Hui Fan … Fei WenJournal of Imaging · National University of Defense Technology · Central South University of Forestry and Technology · +2
  7. 2024
    CFSSeg: Closed-Form Solution for Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation of 2D Images and 3D Point CloudsJia Xu Li, Rui Li, Jianyu Qi … Huiping ZhuangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Central South University · Zhengzhou University · +4
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  8. 2025
    Flexi-FSCIL: Adaptive Knowledge Retention for Breaking the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma in Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningWufei Xie, Yue Wang, Chenliang Liu … Xue YangICCV · Central South University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  9. 2025
    CALM: A Ubiquitous Crowdsourced Analytic Learning Mechanism for Continual Service Construction with Data Privacy PreservationKejia Fan, Yajiang Huang, Jingyu He … Yunhuai LiuACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technol… · Central South University · University of Pennsylvania · +6
  10. 2023
    AdaER: An Adaptive Experience Replay Approach for Continual Lifelong LearningXingyu Li, Bo Tang, Haifeng LiNeurocomputing · Tulane University · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · +1
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  11. 2023
    Parallel Gradient Blend for Class Incremental LearningYunlong Zhao, Xiaoheng Deng, Xinjun Pei … Deng LiICIP · Central South University
  12. 2023
    Lifelong Learning With Cycle Memory NetworksJian Peng, Dingqi Ye, Bo Tang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Shanghai Zhangjiang Laboratory · Tsinghua University · +5
  13. 2023
    Continual Learning on Dynamic Graphs via Parameter IsolationPeiyan Zhang, Yuchen Yan, Chaozhuo Li … Sunghun KimSIGIR · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Peking University · +3
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  14. 2022
    CIOD: an intelligent class-incremental object detection system with nearest mean of exemplarsSheng Ren, He Yan, Xiaokang Wang … Jianqi LiJournal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing · Central South University · Hunan University of Arts and Science · +3
  15. 2021
    Learning by Active Forgetting for Neural NetworksJian Peng, Xian Sun, Min Deng … Haifeng LiarXiv · Central South University
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  16. 2022
    MFS: A Brain-Inspired Memory Formation System for GANYifan Chang, Yifan Wang, Jian Peng … Wenbo LiIEEE Transactions · University of Science and Technology of China · Anhui University · +3
  17. 2019
    Overcoming Long-Term Catastrophic Forgetting Through Adversarial Neural Pruning and Synaptic ConsolidationJian Peng, Bo Tang, Hao Jiang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Central South University · Mississippi State University · +3
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  18. 2020
    Memory Protection Generative Adversarial Network (MPGAN): A Framework to Overcome the Forgetting of GANs Using Parameter Regularization MethodsYifan Chang, Wenbo Li, Jian Peng … Yingliang HuangIEEE Access · University of Science and Technology of China · Hefei Institute of Technology Innovation · +3
  19. 2019
    An Auto-ML Framework Based on GBDT for Lifelong LearningJinlong Chai, Jiangeng Chang, Yakun Zhao, Honggang LiuarXiv · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Central South University
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  20. 2019
    Incremental Reinforcement Learning With Prioritized Sweeping for Dynamic EnvironmentsZhi Wang, Chunlin Chen, Han‐Xiong Li … Tzyh‐Jong TarnIEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics · Nanjing University · Central South University · +3
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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