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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
    Lifelong Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation LearningXudong Wang, Zebin Han, Zhiyu Liu … Zhi HanAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  2. 2026
    Learning From Each Other: Generalized Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +5
  3. 2025
    CRISP: Contrastive Residual Injection and Semantic Prompting for Continual Video Instance SegmentationBaichen Liu, Qi Lyu, Xudong Wang … Zhi HanTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  4. 2024
    MuseumMaker: Continual Style Customization Without Catastrophic ForgettingChanglan Liu, Gan Sun, Wenqi Liang … Yang CongTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  5. 2025
    Lightweight Class Incremental Semantic Segmentation Without Catastrophic ForgettingWei Cong, Yang Cong, Yu RenTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  6. 2024
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Robot Continual Learning: A Guided Policy Search Approach Enhanced With Memory-Aware SynapsesQingwei Dong, Peng Zeng, Yunpeng He … Xiaoting DongRA-L · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences
  7. 2024
    On the Approximation Risk of Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXuan Wang, Zhong Ji, Xiyao Liu … Jungong HanSpringer LNCS · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
  8. 2023
    Create Your World: Lifelong Text-to-Image DiffusionGan Sun, Wenqi Liang, Jiahua Dong … Yang CongTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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  9. 2023
    Gradient-Semantic Compensation for Incremental Semantic SegmentationWei Wei Cong, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Henghui DingIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  10. 2023
    No One Left Behind: Real-World Federated Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Hongliu Li, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  11. 2023
    Task Relation Distillation and Prototypical Pseudo Label for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Hongliu Li, Wei Wei Cong … Xiuyi ChenCIKM · Baidu (China) · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +3
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  12. 2023
    Augmented Box Replay: Overcoming Foreground Shift for Incremental Object DetectionYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Dipam Goswami … Joost van de WeijerICCV · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  13. 2023
    Heterogeneous Forgetting Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong, Gan SunICCV · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  14. 2023
    I3DOD: Towards Incremental 3D Object Detection via PromptingWenqi Liang, Gan Sun, Chenxi Liu … Kangru WangIROS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  15. 2024
    Topology-Aware Graph Convolution Network for Few-Shot Incremental 3-D Object LearningBingtao Ma, Yang Cong, Jiahua DongIEEE Transactions · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  16. 2024
    IOSL: Incremental Open Set LearningBingtao Ma, Yang Cong, Yu RenIEEE TCSVT · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  17. 2023
    Self-Paced Weight Consolidation for Continual LearningWei Wei Cong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Jiahua DongIEEE TCSVT · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  18. 2023
    Angular Penalty for Few-Shot Incremental 3D Object LearningBingtao Ma, Yang CongIJCNN · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  19. 2023
    Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Duzhen Zhang, Yang Cong … Dengxin DaiCVPR · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  20. 2023
    InOR-Net: Incremental 3-D Object Recognition Network for Point Cloud RepresentationJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Ender KonukoğluTNNLS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  21. 2022
    Memorizing Complementation Network for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhong Ji, Zhishen Hou, Xiyao Liu … Xuelong LiTIP · Tianjin University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
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  22. 2022
    Proper Reuse of Features Extractor for Real-time Continual LearningYu Li, Gan Sun, Yuyang Liu … Chuanzhi ZangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Shenyang University of Technology · +2
  23. 2022
    Class-Incremental Gesture Recognition Learning with Out-of-Distribution DetectionMingxue Li, Yang Cong, Yuyang Liu, Gan SunIROS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  24. 2023
    Lifelong Visual-Tactile Spectral Clustering for Robotic Object PerceptionYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  25. 2022
    Federated Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Lixu Wang, Zhen Fang … Qi ZhuCVPR · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  26. 2022
    Continuous Multi-View Human Action RecognitionQiang Wang, Gan Sun, Jiahua Dong … Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Shenyang University · +3
  27. 2023
    Hierarchical Lifelong Machine Learning With “Watchdog”Gan Sun, Yang Cong, Changjun Gu … Haibin YuIEEE Transactions · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  28. 2022
    Lifelong robotic visual-tactile perception learningJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Tao ZhangPattern Recognition · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  29. 2020
    I3DOL: Incremental 3D Object Learning without Catastrophic ForgettingJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Lichen WangAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  30. 2021
    What and How: Generalized Lifelong Spectral Clustering via Dual MemoryGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Haibin YuTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  31. 2021
    L3DOC: Lifelong 3D Object ClassificationYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Hongsen LiuTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  32. 2019
    Representative Task Self-Selection for Flexible Clustered Lifelong LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Qianqian Wang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +3
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  33. 2020
    Continual Multiview Task Learning via Deep Matrix FactorizationGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yulun Zhang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
  34. 2022
    Incremental Learning Framework for Autonomous Robots Based on Q-Learning and the Adaptive Kernel Linear ModelYanming Hu, Decai Li, Yuqing He, Jianda HanIEEE TCDS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  35. 2019
    Hybrid incremental learning of new data and new classes for hand-held object recognitionChengpeng Chen, Weiqing Min, Xue Li, Shuqiang JiangJournal of Visual Communication and Image Representation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
  36. 2018
    Robust Lifelong Multi-task Multi-view Representation LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jun Li, Yun FuIEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK) · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
  37. 2018
    Clustered Lifelong Learning Via Representative Task SelectionGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yu Kong, Xiaowei XuICDM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +3
  38. 2017
    Lifelong Metric LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Ji Liu … Haibin YuIEEE Trans. Cybernetics · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  39. 2018
    Active Lifelong Learning With "Watchdog"Gan Sun, Yang Cong, Xiaowei XuAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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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