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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    A negative-anchored self-relabeling strategy for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuNeurocomputing · Southeast University · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · +1
  2. 2026
    Elastic Multi-Gradient Descent for Parallel Continual LearningFan Lyu, Wei Feng, Yuepan Li … Liang WangTPAMI · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Tianjin University · +2
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  3. 2025
    Addressing The Devastating Effects Of Single-Task Data Poisoning In Exemplar-Free Continual LearningStanisław Pawlak, Bartłomiej Twardowski, T. P. Trzcinski, Joost van de WeijerarXiv · Warsaw University of Technology · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · +1
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  4. 2025
    UCL-MHTR: A unified continual learning system for multilingual handwritten text recognitionMarwa Dhiaf, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Yousri Kessentini … Ahmed Cheikh RouhouExpert Systems with Applications · National Sanitation Utility · Digital Research Centre of Sfax · +1
  5. 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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  6. 2024
    Category Adaptation Meets Projected Distillation in Generalized Continual Category DiscoveryGrzegorz Rypeść, Daniel Marczak, Sebastian Cygert … Bartłomiej TwardowskiECCV · Warsaw University of Technology · Gdańsk University of Technology · +1
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  7. 2024
    Divide and not forget: Ensemble of selectively trained experts in Continual LearningGrzegorz Rypeść, Sebastian Cygert, Valeriya Khan … Bartłomiej TwardowskiICLR · Warsaw University of Technology · Integrated Detector Electronics AS (Norway) · +6
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  8. 2024
    Plasticity-Optimized Complementary Networks for Unsupervised Continual LearningAlex Gomez-Villa, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Kai Wang, Joost van de WeijerWACV · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Barcelona Supercomputing Center · +1
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  9. 2023
    Adapt Your Teacher: Improving Knowledge Distillation for Exemplar-free Continual LearningFilip Szatkowski, Mateusz Pyla, Marcin Przewięźlikowski … T. P. TrzcinskiICCV · Warsaw University of Technology · Integrated Detector Electronics AS (Norway) · +5
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  10. 2023
    ICICLE: Interpretable Class Incremental Continual LearningDawid Rymarczyk, Joost van de Weijer, Bartosz Zieliński, Bartłomiej TwardowskiICCV · Jagiellonian University · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · +4
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  11. 2022
    Continually Learning Self-Supervised Representations with Projected Functional RegularizationAlex Gomez-Villa, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Yu Lu … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Tianjin University of Technology · +1
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  12. 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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  13. 2021
    ACAE-REMIND for Online Continual Learning with Compressed Feature ReplayKai Wang, Joost van de Weijer, Luis HerranzPattern Recognition Letters · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Computer Vision Center
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  14. 2021
    Ternary Feature Masks: zero-forgetting for task-incremental learningMarc Masana, Tinne Tuytelaars, Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Barcelona Supercomputing Center · +2
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  15. 2021
    Continual learning in cross-modal retrievalKai Wang, Luis Herranz, Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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  16. 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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  17. 2020
    Bookworm continual learning: beyond zero-shot learning and continual learningKai Wang, Luis Herranz, Anjan Dutta, Joost van de WeijerarXiv · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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  18. 2020
    Semantic Drift Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningLu Yu, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Xialei Liu … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +1
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  19. 2020
    Generative Feature Replay For Class-Incremental LearningXialei Liu, Chenshen Wu, Mikel Menta … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · University of Florence · +1
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  20. 2020
    Continual Universal Object DetectionXialei Liu, Hao Yang, Avinash Ravichandran … Stefano SoattoarXiv · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Amazon (Germany)
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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. It lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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