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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
    Empirical Study of Padding Methods and Resource Efficiency in Replay-Based Class-Incremental Continual Learning for Variable-Length Time SeriesVictor Philippe, Thirimachos Bourlai, William Wells, Mohammad TahaIEEE TAI · Savannah River National Laboratory
  2. 2026
    Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Xiuyi Chen … Dong YuIEEE TAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Kyoto University · +2
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  3. 2025
    CIBLS-PLS: A Class-Incremental Broad Learning System With Pseudolabel-Guided Stacked StructureXin Liu, Zhaoyin Shi, Shuanghao Zhang … C. L. Philip ChenIEEE TAI · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +4
  4. 2025
    Subnetwork Knowledge Injection and Transferable Parameter Updating Strategy for Continual Learning of Vision-and-Language TasksJiong Wang, Qing Zhang, Jie Liu … Yinqiao LiIEEE TAI · Beijing Normal University · North China University of Technology · +2
  5. 2025
    Prompt Customization for Continual LearningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangIEEE TAI · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +6
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  6. 2024
    Bilateral-Head Region-Based Convolutional Neural Networks: A Unified Approach for Incremental Few-Shot Object DetectionYiting Li, Haiyue Zhu, Sichao Tian … Prahlad VadakkepatIEEE TAI · National University of Singapore · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +4
  7. 2024
    Exemplar-Based Continual Learning via Contrastive LearningShuai Chen, Mingyi Zhang, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi HuangIEEE TAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  8. 2023
    Continual Learning: A Review of Techniques, Challenges, and Future DirectionsBuddhi Wickramasinghe, Gobinda Saha, Kaushik RoyIEEE TAI · Purdue University West Lafayette
  9. 2021
    An Incremental Learning Model for Mobile Robot: From Short-Term Memory to Long-Term MemoryDongshu Wang, Kai Yang, Lei Liu, Heshan WangIEEE TAI · Zhengzhou University · China Mobile (China) · +1
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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