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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, M. Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  2. 2022
    Exemplar-Free Continual Learning of Vision Transformers via Gated Class-Attention and Cascaded Feature Drift CompensationMarco Cotogni, Fei Yang, Claudio Cusano … Joost van de WeijerInternational Journal of Computer Vision · University of Pavia · BGI Group (China) · +4
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  3. 2025
    EFC++: Elastic Feature Consolidation with Prototype Re-balancing for Cold Start Exemplar-free Incremental LearningSimone Magistri, Tomaso Trinci, Albin Soutif-Cormerais … Andrew D. BagdanovarXiv
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  4. 2024
    Exemplar-free Continual Representation Learning via Learnable Drift CompensationAlex Gomez-Villa, Dipam Goswami, Kai Wang … J. WeijerECCV
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  5. 2022
    Task-Adaptive Saliency Guidance for Exemplar-Free Class Incremental LearningXialei Liu, Jiang-Tian Zhai, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Ming‐Ming ChengCVPR · Nankai University · University of Florence · +1
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  6. 2024
    Elastic Feature Consolidation for Cold Start Exemplar-free Incremental LearningSimone Magistri, Tomaso Trinci, Albin Soutif-Cormerais … Andrew D. BagdanovICLR
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  7. 2024
    Continual learning for adaptive social network identificationSimone Magistri, Daniele Baracchi, Dasara Shullani … Alessandro PivaPattern Recognition Letters
  8. 2024
    Incremental and Decremental Continual Learning for Privacy-Preserving Video RecognitionLorenzo Caselli, Simone Magistri, Tommaso Bianconcini … Andrew D. BagdanovECCV
  9. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning with Pre-trained Vision-Language ModelsXialei Liu, Xusheng Cao, Haori Lu … Ming-Ming ChengarXiv
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  10. 2023
    Masked Autoencoders are Efficient Class Incremental LearnersJiang-Tian Zhai, Xialei Liu, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Mingg-Ming ChengICCV
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  11. 2023
    Towards Continual Social Network IdentificationSimone Magistri, Daniele Baracchi, Dasara Shullani … A. PivaInternational Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics
  12. 2020
    Class-Incremental Learning: Survey and Performance Evaluation on Image ClassificationMarc Masana, Xialei Liu, Bartłomiej Twardowski … Joost van de WeijerTPAMI · Computer Vision Center
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  13. 2022
    Long-Tailed Class Incremental LearningXialei Liu, Yusong Hu, Xusheng Cao … Ming‐Ming ChengECCV
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  14. 2021
    Continually Learning Self-Supervised Representations with Projected Functional RegularizationAlex Gomez-Villa, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Yu Lu … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Tianjin University of Technology · +1
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  16. 2022
    Robust Saliency Guidance for Data-free Class Incremental LearningXialei Liu, Jiang-Tian Zhai, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Ming-Ming ChengarXiv
  17. 2020
    RATT: Recurrent Attention to Transient Tasks for Continual Image CaptioningRiccardo Del Chiaro, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Andrew D. Bagdanov, Joost van de WeijerNeurIPS
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  18. 2020
    Generative Feature Replay For Class-Incremental LearningXialei Liu, Chenshen Wu, Mikel Menta … Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · University of Florence · +1
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  19. 2018
    Rotate your Networks: Better Weight Consolidation and Less Catastrophic ForgettingXialei Liu, Marc Masana, Luis Herranz … Andrew D. BagdanovICPR · Computer Vision Center · University of Florence
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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. 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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