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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. 2025
    Task-Aware Prompt Gradient Projection for Parameter-Efficient Tuning Federated Class-Incremental LearningHualong Ke, Jiangming Shi, Yachao Zhang … Yanyun QuICCV · Xiamen University
  2. 2025
  3. 2025
    One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly DetectionXiaofan Li, Xin Tan, Zhuo Chen … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +2
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  4. 2025
    Bias to Balance: New-Knowledge-Preferred Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Transition CalibrationHongquan Zhang, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieTNNLS · East China Normal University · Xiamen University
  5. 2025
    RECALL: REpresentation-aligned Catastrophic-forgetting ALLeviation via Hierarchical Model MergingBowen Wang, Haiyuan Wan, Liwen Shi … Sheng ZhangEMNLP · University Town of Shenzhen · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute · +6
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  6. 2024
    Learning Task-Aware Language-Image Representation for Class-Incremental Object DetectionHongquan Zhang, Bin-Bin Gao, Yi Zeng … Yuan XieAAAI · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
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  7. 2023
    Instance and Category Supervision are Alternate Learners for Continual LearningXudong Tian, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieICCV · Chongqing Normal University · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Computer Software Testing and Evaluating · +3
  8. 2023
    Rethinking Gradient Projection Continual Learning: Stability/Plasticity Feature Space DecouplingZhen Zhao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Lizhuang MaCVPR · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
  9. 2023
    Multi-Centroid Task Descriptor for Dynamic Class Incremental InferenceTenghao Cai, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +1
  10. 2023
    Consistent Prototype Learning for Few-Shot Continual Relation ExtractionXiudi Chen, Hui Wu, Xiaodong ShiACL · Xiamen University
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  11. 2023
    Continual Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation via Dual Importance-based Model DivisionJunpeng Liu, Kaiyu Huang, Hao Yu … Degen HuangEMNLP · Dalian University of Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
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  12. 2024
    Self-Growing Binary Activation Network: A Novel Deep Learning Model With Dynamic ArchitectureZe-Yang Zhang, Yidong Chen, Changle ZhouTNNLS · Xiamen University
  13. 2023
    Dynamic Support Network for Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningBoyu Yang, Mingbao Lin, Yunxiao Zhang … Qixiang YeTPAMI · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Xiamen University · +2
  14. 2022
    CLLE: A Benchmark for Continual Language Learning Evaluation in Multilingual Machine TranslationHan Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Yang Xiang … Ruifeng XuEMNLP · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +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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