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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
    Enhancing decision boundaries in continual learning through a decoupled Gaussian frameworkZHIKUN FENG, Chi Chen, Zhou Yang … Yakun JuInformation Processing & Management · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +3
  2. 2026
    MIP: Mutual information-guided prompt for class-incremental continual graph learningQiao Yuan, Boxuan Zhu, Weizhi Huang … Jieming MaPattern Recognition · University of Liverpool · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  3. 2026
    Class-incremental continual graph learning with adversarial graph condensationQiAo Yuan, Boxuan Zhu, Sheng-Uei Guan … Prudence WongNeurocomputing · University of Liverpool · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  4. 2026
    CoMasTRe+: Unleashing Disentangled Continual Segmentation With Mixture of Continual AdaptersYizheng Gong, Siyue Yu, Liquan Shen, Jimin XiaoIEEE TCSVT · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Shanghai University
  5. 2025
    SDP: Spectral-Decomposed Prompting for Continual LearningSiqi Song, Limin Yu, Jimin XiaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  6. 2025
    Bio-Inspired LLMs Forgetting: Integrating Neuroscience and Computational MechanismsYuchen Xie2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence,… · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  7. 2025
    You look from old classes: Towards accurate few shot class-incremental learningYijie Hu, Kaizhu Huang, Wei Wang … Qiufeng WangPattern Recognition · University of Liverpool · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · +1
  8. 2026
    TIPS: Two-level prompt selection for more stability-plasticity balance in continual learningZhikun Feng, Liang Peng, Kang Dang … Jionglong SuPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +3
  9. 2025
    Decoupling Overlapped Feature Spaces: When Continual Learning Meets Fine-Grain ClassificationZhikun Feng, Mingyu Wu, Ping Kuang … Yu LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  10. 2025
    FedCSG - a Novel Federated Continual Graph Learning Framework for Resource-limited DevicesHanyue Xu, Kah Phooi Seng, Jieli Chen … Jeremy SmithIJCNN · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · University of the Sunshine Coast · +1
  11. 2024
    Covariance-Based Space Regularization for Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningYijie Hu, Guanyu Yang, Zhaorui Tan … Qiufeng WangWACV · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · University of Liverpool · +1
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  12. 2024
    Continual Segmentation with Disentangled Objectness Learning and Class RecognitionYizheng Gong, Siyue Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, Jimin XiaoCVPR · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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  13. 2024
    Adaptive knowledge transfer for class incremental learningZhikun Feng, Mian Zhou, Zan Gao … Chuanhui LiPattern Recognition Letters · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
  14. 2024
    SCREAM: Knowledge sharing and compact representation for class incremental learningZhikun Feng, Mian Zhou, Zan Gao … Zezhou SuiInformation Processing & Management · Tianjin University of Technology · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  15. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning for Character String RecognitionYijie Hu, Yan‐Ming Zhang, Kaizhu Huang, Qiufeng WangSpringer LNCS · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  16. 2020
    State Primitive Learning to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting in RoboticsFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Hong QiaoCognitive Computation · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  17. 2020
    Encoding primitives generation policy learning for robotic arm to overcome catastrophic forgetting in sequential multi-tasks learningFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Amir HussainNeural Networks · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +7
  18. 2020
    Lifelong Machine Learning Architecture for ClassificationXianbin Hong, Sheng-Uei Guan, Ka Lok Man, Prudence W. H. WongSymmetry · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · University of Liverpool
  19. 2019
    Primitives Generation Policy Learning without Catastrophic Forgetting for Robotic ManipulationFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Amir HussainICDM · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
  20. 2019
    Semi-Unsupervised Lifelong Learning for Sentiment Classification: Less Manual Data Annotation and More Self-StudyingXianbin Hong, Gautam Pal, Sheng-Uei Guan … Xin HuangHPCCT/BDAI · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · University of Liverpool
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  21. 2019
    Guided Policy Search for Sequential Multitask LearningFangzhou Xiong, Biao Sun, Xu Yang … Zhiyong LiuIEEE Transactions · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Science and Technology Beijing · +4
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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