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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. 2026
    HADA: Heteroscedastic-Aware Analytical Dynamic Adaptation for Time Series Class-Incremental LearningHan Liu, Fengbin Zhang, Sizhe Huang … Ruidong WangTKDE · Harbin University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang Normal University
  3. 2025
    Learning Temporal Event Knowledge for Continual Social Event ClassificationShengsheng Qian, Shengjie Zhang, Dizhan Xue … Changsheng XuTKDE · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  4. 2025
    Complementary Learning Subnetworks Towards Parameter-Efficient Class-Incremental LearningDepeng Li, Zhigang Zeng, Wei Dai, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanTKDE · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · China University of Mining and Technology · +1
  5. 2025
    CGoFed: Constrained Gradient Optimization Strategy for Federated Class Incremental LearningJiyuan Feng, Xu Yang, Liwen Liang … Qing LiaoTKDE · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  6. 2025
    Spatio-Temporal Prediction on Streaming Data: A Unified Federated Continuous Learning FrameworkHao Miao, Yan Zhao, Chenjuan Guo … Christian S. JensenTKDE · Aalborg University · East China Normal University
  7. 2024
    PUMA: Efficient Continual Graph Learning for Node Classification With Graph CondensationYilun Liu, Ruihong Qiu, Yanran Tang … Zi HuangTKDE · The University of Queensland
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  8. 2024
    Continual Learning for Smart City: A SurveyLi Yi Yang, Zhipeng Luo, Shiming Zhang … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  9. 2024
    Open Continual Feature Selection via Granular-Ball Knowledge TransferXuemei Cao, Xin Yang, Shuyin Xia … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +1
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  10. 2024
    FPrompt-PLM: Flexible-Prompt on Pretrained Language Model for Continual Few-Shot Relation ExtractionLingling Zhang, Yifei Li, Qianying Wang … Jun LiuTKDE · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Lenovo (China) · +1
  11. 2024
    Hessian Aware Low-Rank Perturbation for Order-Robust Continual LearningJiaqi Li, Yuanhao Lai, Rui Wang … Fan ZhouTKDE · Western University · Vector Institute · +3
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  12. 2024
    Federated Continual Learning via Knowledge Fusion: A SurveyXin Yang, Hao Yu, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Nanyang Technological University · +2
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  13. 2023
    Balanced Class-Incremental 3D Object Classification and RetrievalAn-An Liu, Hao‐Chun Lu, Heyu Zhou … Mohan KankanhalliTKDE · Tianjin University · National University of Singapore
  14. 2022
    Multi-Granularity Regularized Re-Balancing for Class Incremental LearningHuitong Chen, Yu Wang, Qinghua HuTKDE · Tianjin University · Tianjin haihe hospital
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  15. 2021
    Cost-Effective Incremental Deep Model: Matching Model Capacity With the Least SamplingYang Yang, Da-Wei Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Southeast University · +2
  16. 2021
    Learning Adaptive Embedding Considering Incremental ClassYang Yang, Zhen-Qiang Sun, Hengshu Zhu … Jian YangTKDE · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +4
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  17. 2019
    Affinity Regularized Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Lifelong Topic ModelingYong Chen, Junjie Wu, Jianying Lin … Zhiwen YeTKDE · Beihang University
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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