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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
    ODGNet: Learning Dynamic Variable Association for Online Time Series ForecastingYushuo Liu, Yulong Wang, Kai WangTKDE · Nankai University
  2. 2025
    Bridging Inter-Task Gap of Continual Self-Supervised Learning With External DataHaori Lu, Xusheng Cao, Linlan Huang … Xialei LiuIEEE TCSVT · Nankai University
  3. 2025
    KAC: Kolmogorov-Arnold Classifier for Continual LearningYusong Hu, Zichen Liang, Fei Yang … Ming‐Ming ChengCVPR · Nankai University
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  4. 2025
    Specifying What You Know or Not for Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  5. 2025
    DCA: Dividing and Conquering Amnesia in Incremental Object DetectionAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  6. 2022
    Exemplar-Free Continual Learning of Vision Transformers via Gated Class-Attention and Cascaded Feature Drift CompensationMarco Cotogni, Fei Yang, Claudio Cusano … Joost van de WeijerIJCV · University of Pavia · BGI Group (China) · +4
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  7. 2025
    kNN-CL: Enhancing Continual Learning with Nearest Neighbor RetrievalEnzhi Wang, Qicheng Li, Hao Chen … Xin ZhouICASSP · Nankai University · Intel (United States) · +1
  8. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning for Image Classification With Out-of-Distribution Task IdentificationXusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Xialei Liu, Ming‐Ming ChengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Nankai University
  9. 2025
    Enhancing Continual Semantic Segmentation via Uncertainty and Class Balance Re-WeightingZichen Liang, Yusong Hu, Fei Yang, Xialei LiuTIP · Nankai University
  10. 2025
    Lifelong Learning for Entity LinkingYing Zhang, Xuhui Sui, Kehui Song … Xiaojie YuanIEEE Transactions · Nankai University
  11. 2025
    Federated Continual Learning via Orchestrating Multi-Scale ExpertiseXiaoyang Yi, Yang Liu, Binhan Yang, Jian ZhangNeurIPS · Nankai University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
  12. 2025
    Hybrid Re-matching for Continual Learning with Parameter-Efficient TuningWeicheng Wang, Guoli Jia, Xialei Liu … Jufeng YangNeurIPS · Nankai University · Tsinghua University
  13. 2024
    Reformulating Classification as Image-Class Matching for Class Incremental LearningYusong Hu, Zichen Liang, Xialei Liu … Ming‐Ming ChengIEEE TCSVT · Nankai University
  14. 2024
    Generative Multi-modal Models are Good Class-Incremental LearnersXusheng Cao, Haori Lu, Linlan Huang … Ming‐Ming ChengCVPR · Nankai University
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  15. 2024
    Task-Adaptive Saliency Guidance for Exemplar-Free Class Incremental LearningXialei Liu, Jiang-Tian Zhai, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Ming‐Ming ChengCVPR · Nankai University · University of Florence · +1
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  16. 2024
    Modeling Inner- and Cross-Task Contrastive Relations for Continual Image ClassificationYuxuan Luo, Runmin Cong, Xialei Liu … Sam KwongIEEE Trans. Multimedia · City University of Hong Kong · Shandong University · +1
  17. 2023
    Augmented Box Replay: Overcoming Foreground Shift for Incremental Object DetectionYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Dipam Goswami … Joost van de WeijerICCV · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  18. 2023
    Masked Autoencoders are Efficient Class Incremental LearnersJiang-Tian Zhai, Xialei Liu, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Ming‐Ming ChengICCV · Nankai University · University of Florence · +1
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  19. 2023
    Endpoints Weight Fusion for Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationJia–Wen Xiao, Chang–Bin Zhang, Jiekang Feng … Ming‐Ming ChengCVPR · Nankai University · Tianjin University
  20. 2022
    Representation Compensation Networks for Continual Semantic SegmentationChang–Bin Zhang, Jia-wen Xiao, Xialei Liu … Ming‐Ming ChengCVPR · Nankai University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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  21. 2020
    Self-Training for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationLu Yu, Xialei Liu, Joost van de WeijerTNNLS · Tianjin University of Technology · Nankai University · +1
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  22. 2021
    HCV: Hierarchy-Consistency Verification for Incremental Implicitly-Refined ClassificationKai Wang, Xialei Liu, Luis Herranz, Joost van de WeijerBMVC · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Nankai University
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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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