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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
    Cross Task Knowledge Transfer for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningShuai Chen, Leike An, Jiaxi Wang … Jibin WangICASSP · China Mobile (China) · Beijing Institute of Technology
  2. 2026
    Few-shot class-incremental learning based on prompt guidance and multimodal fusionHaoming Fang, Haonan Cai, Keming Mao … Xinlu XiaoKnowledge-Based Systems · Northeastern University · China Mobile (China)
  3. 2026
    Learning dynamic representations via an optimally-weighted maximum mean discrepancy optimization framework for continual learningKaihui Huang, Runqing Wu, Jinhui Shen … Fei YeKnowledge-Based Systems · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +2
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  4. 2026
    Soft Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation for Knowledge Sharing in Large Language Model Continual LearningYitong Wang, Xue Han, Wenchun Gao … Junlan FengACL · Jiuquan Iron & Steel (China) · China Mobile (China) · +1
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  5. 2025
    Few-Shot Incremental Learning With Context-Aware Spatial Enhancement for Image RecognitionHeng Wu, Ze Yang, Zijun Zheng … Wansong WangIEEE Access · Hangzhou Vocational and Technical College · China Mobile (China) · +4
  6. 2023
    Prompt Pool Based Class-Incremental Continual Learning for Dialog State TrackingHong Liu, Yucheng Cai, Yuan Zhou … Junlan FengIEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Works… · China Mobile (China) · Tsinghua University
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  7. 2021
    An Incremental Learning Model for Mobile Robot: From Short-Term Memory to Long-Term MemoryDongshu Wang, Kai Yang, Lei Liu, Heshan WangIEEE TAI · Zhengzhou University · China Mobile (China) · +1
  8. 2019
    Incremental Learning from Scratch for Task-Oriented Dialogue SystemsWeikang Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Qian Li … Zhifei LiACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +3
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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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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