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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
    Spectral Disentanglement: Rank-Aware Task Adaptation for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning in LLMsHuanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao … Kang LiuACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  2. 2026
    Harmonizing the Past, Present, and Future: A Null-Space Constrained Region-Specific Method for Continual Learning in LLMsJinhui Chen, Shizhu He, Xingchang Yang … Jun ZhaoACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  3. 2025
    Balanced Contrast Class-Incremental LearningShiqi Yu, Luojun Lin, Yuanlong YuCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology · Fuzhou University
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  4. 2025
    A Tiny Change, a Giant Leap: Long-Tailed Class-Incremental Learning via Geometric Prototype AlignmentXinyi Lai, Luojun Lin, Weijie Chen, Yuanlong YuICCV · Fuzhou University · Zhejiang University
  5. 2025
    Multi-View Incremental Learning with Structured Hebbian Plasticity for Enhanced Fusion EfficiencyYuhong Chen, Ailin Song, Huifeng Yin … Mingkun XuAAAI · Fuzhou University · Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology · +2
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  6. 2024
    Towards Adversarial-Robust Class-Incremental Learning via Progressively Volume-Up Perturbation GenerationY. Nancy You, Bin Chen, Jia-Li Yin … Wei LinSpringer LNCS · Fuzhou University · Fujian University of Technology
  7. 2023
    Towards Fast and Stable Federated Learning: Confronting Heterogeneity via Knowledge AnchorJinqian Chen, Jihua Zhu, Qinghai ZhengACM MM · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Fuzhou University
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  8. 2023
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Semantic Segmentation via Pseudo-Labeling and Knowledge DistillationChengjia Jiang, Tao Wang, Sien Li … Antonios AntoniouInternational Conference on Information Science, Parallel… · Minjiang University · Wuyi University · +2
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  9. 2023
    Deep Inversion Method for Attacking Lifelong Learning Neural NetworksBoyuan Du, Yuanlong Yu, Huaping LiuIJCNN · Fuzhou University · Tsinghua University
  10. 2020
    Class incremental learning via Multi-hinge distillationQianhe Lin, Yuanlong Yu, Zhiyong HuangChinese Automation Congress (CAC) · Fuzhou University · Zhejiang Lab
  11. 2019
    A New Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Object DetectionLi Chen, Chunyan Yu, Lvcai ChenIJCNN · Fuzhou University
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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