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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. 2024
    ACIL: Active Class Incremental Learning for Image ClassificationAditya Bhattacharya, Debanjan Goswami, Shayok ChakrabortyBMVC
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    Self-Composing Policies for Scalable Continual Reinforcement LearningMikel Malagón, Josu Ceberio, José A. LozanoICML
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    POET: Prompt Offset Tuning for Continual Human Action AdaptationPrachi Garg, K. Joseph, Vineeth N. Balasubramanian … Fernando de la TorreECCV
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    Accurate Forgetting for Heterogeneous Federated Continual LearningAbudukelimu Wuerkaixi, Sen Cui, Jingfeng Zhang … Masashi SugiyamaICLR
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    SDCoT++: Improved Static-Dynamic Co-Teaching for Class-Incremental 3D Object DetectionNa Zhao, Peisheng Qian, Fang Wu … Gim Hee LeeTIP · Singapore University of Technology and Design · National University of Singapore · +2
  7. 2024
    TactCLNet: Tactile Continual Learning Network Based on Generative Replay for Object Hardness RecognitionYiwen Liu, Zhengkun Yi, Senlin Fang … Xinyu WuIEEE Transactions · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +3
  8. 2024
    Continual Learning and Catastrophic ForgettingGido M. van de Ven, Nicholas Soures, Dhireesha KudithipudiElsevier · KU Leuven · The University of Texas at San Antonio
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    Decoding BatchNorm statistics via anchors pool for data-free models based on continual learningXiaobin Li, Weiqiang Wang, Guangluan XuNeural Computing and Applications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Aerospace Information Research Institute · +1
  10. 2024
    Maintain Plasticity in Long-timescale Continual Test-time AdaptationYanshuo Wang, Xuesong Li, Tong, Jinguang … Haoxing ChenarXiv
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    Studying Forgetting in Faster R-CNN for Online Object Detection: Analysis Scenarios, Localization in the Architecture, and MitigationBaptiste Wagner, Denis Pellerin, Sylvain HuetIEEE Access · Institut polytechnique de Grenoble · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +1
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  12. 2024
    Taxonomy-Aware Continual Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Spaces for Open-World PerceptionJulia Hindel, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav ValadaRA-L · University of Freiburg
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    Exemplar-condensed Federated Class-incremental LearningRui Sun, Yumin Zhang, Varun Ojha … Rajiv RanjanarXiv
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  14. 2024
    Memory-Enhanced Confidence Calibration for Class-Incremental Unsupervised Domain AdaptationJiaping Yu, Muli Yang, Aming Wu, Cheng DengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xidian University · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +1
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    Category-instance distillation based on visual-language models for rehearsal-free class incremental learningWeilong Jin, Zilei Wang, Yixin ZhangIET Computer Vision · University of Science and Technology of China
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    Expert Routing with Synthetic Data for Continual LearningYewon Byun, Sanket Vaibhav Mehta, Saurabh Garg … Zachary C. LiptonICML
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    Multi-Granularity Knowledge Distillation Based Class Incremental Learning MethodNan Lin, Lihao Wang, Cong Yang … Yongxia ChenInternational Conference on Signal Processing, Computer N… · Zhengzhou University
  19. 2024
    Chained Tuning Leads to Biased ForgettingMegan Ung, Sun, Alicia, Samuel J. Bell … Adina WilliamsarXiv
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  20. 2024
    Uncertainty Quantification in Continual Open-World LearningAmanda Rios, Ibrahima J. Ndiour, Parual Datta … Nilesh AhujaarXiv
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  21. 2024
    In-context Continual Learning Assisted by an External Continual LearnerSaleh Momeni, Sahisnu Mazumder, Zixuan Ke, Bing LiuCOLING
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    MR-GDINO: Efficient Open-World Continual Object DetectionBowen Dong, Zitong Huang, Guanglei Yang … Wangmeng ZuoarXiv
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    Stability through plasticity: Finding robust memories through representational driftMaanasa Natrajan, James E. FitzgeraldbioRxiv · Northwestern University · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · +3
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    Incremental Learning for Object Detection Based on Self-Supervised LearningH. Y. Sheng, Jiapeng Zhang, Lu Wan … Qiang WangIEEE International Conference on Progress in Informatics… · Wanfang Data (China) · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology
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    Time Series Class-Incremental Learning with Residual Mamba EncoderBailing Zhang, Kexuan ZhouInternational Conference on Computers and Artificial Inte… · Ningbo University of Technology · NingboTech University · +1
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    Hierarchical Subspaces of Policies for Continual Offline Reinforcement LearningAnthony Kobanda, Rémy Portelas, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard, Ludovic DenoyerarXiv · Ubisoft (France)
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    CALA: A Class-Aware Logit Adapter for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningChengyan Liu, Linglan Zhao, Fan Lv … Tao ZhouarXiv
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  30. 2024
    Reduced Forgetfulness in Continual Learning for Named Entity Recognition Through Confident Soft-Label ImitationHuan Zhang, Long Zhou, Mu GuMathematics · University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
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    FPPL: An Efficient and Non-IID Robust Federated Continual Learning FrameworkYuchen He, Chuyun Shen, Xiangfeng Wang, Bo JinIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · East China Normal University · Tongji University
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    Masked Autoencoders are Parameter-Efficient Federated Continual LearnersYuchen He, Xiangfeng WangIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · East China Normal University
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    Poly Instance Recurrent Neural Network for Real-time Lifelong Learning at the Low-power EdgeShamil Al-Ameen, Bharath Sudharsan, Tejus Vijayakumar … Rajiv RanjanIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · Newcastle University · University of Limerick
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    Adapter-Enhanced Semantic Prompting for Continual LearningBaocai Yin, Zhao Ji, Huajie Jiang … Yuankai QiarXiv
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    BgGPT 1.0: Extending English-centric LLMs to other languagesAnton Alexandrov, Veselin Raychev, Dimitar I. Dimitrov … Kristina ToutanovaarXiv
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    Linked Adapters: Linking Past and Future to Present for Effective Continual LearningDupati Srikar Chandra, P. K. Srijith, Dana Rezazadegan, Chris McCarthyKDD
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    EXACFS - A CIL Method to Mitigate Catastrophic ForgettingS. Balasubramanian, Sai Subramaniam M, Sai Sriram Talasu … Ravi MukkamalaFifteenth Indian Conference on Computer Vision Graphics a… · Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning · Old Dominion University
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    Revised Regularization for Efficient Continual Learning through Correlation-Based Parameter Update in Bayesian Neural Networks✱Sanchar Palit, Biplab Banerjee, Subhasis ChaudhuriFifteenth Indian Conference on Computer Vision Graphics a… · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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    Classification Performance Optimization Method Based on Semi-supervised Federated Learning and Dual-domain Knowledge DistillationHaolin Han, Haoran WangInternational Conference on Computer and Communications (… · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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    CONCLAD: COntinuous Novel CLAss DetectorAmanda Rios, Ibrahima J. Ndiour, Parual Datta … Nilesh AhujaarXiv
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    Covariance-Controlled Feature Space Augmentation and Rectification for Long-Tailed Class Incremental LearningRiya Verma, Sukhendu DasFifteenth Indian Conference on Computer Vision Graphics a… · Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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    KM-Prompt: A Prompt-Based CNN for Continual LearningJunwei Chen, Zhigang ZengInternational Conference on Neuromorphic Computing (ICNC) · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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    Towards Robust and Fair Vision Learning in Open-World EnvironmentsThanh-Dat TruongJournal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
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    Incremental Learning of Affordances using Markov Logic NetworksGeorge B.G. Potter, Gertjan J. Burghouts, Joris SijsEighth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing… · Delft University of Technology
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    Efficient Continual Learning for Small Language Models with a Discrete Key-Value BottleneckAndor Diera, Lukas Galke, Fabian Karl, Ansgar ScherpInternational Conference on Natural Language and Speech P…
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    Parseval Regularization for Continual Reinforcement LearningWesley Chung, Lynn Cherif, David Meger, Doina PrecupNeurIPS
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    Adaptive LoRA Merging for Efficient Domain Incremental LearningLuigi Quarantiello, Eric Coleman, Julio Hurtado, Vincenzo LomonacoNeurIPS · University of Warwick
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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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