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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 Domain Adaptive 3D Human Pose EstimationQucheng Peng, Hongfei Xue, Pu Wang, Chen ChenAAAI
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  2. 2025
    IL-NeRF: Incremental Learning for Neural Radiance Fields with Camera Pose AlignmentLetian Zhang, Ming Li, Chen Chen, Jie XuCVPR · Middle Tennessee State University · University of Central Florida · +1
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  3. 2024
    Replay-Free Continual Low-Rank Adaptation with Dynamic MemoryHuancheng Chen, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang … Lingjuan LyuarXiv
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  4. 2024
    Bilingual Adaptation of Monolingual Foundation ModelsGurpreet Gosal, Yishi Xu, Gokul Ramakrishnan … Preslav NakovarXiv
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  5. 2024
    Cross-Domain Continual Learning via CLAMPWeiwei Weng, Mahardhika Pratama, Jie Zhang … Savitha RamasamyInformation Sciences · Nanyang Technological University · University of South Australia · +1
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  8. 2024
    Enhanced Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Ensemble ModelsMingli Zhu, Zihao Zhu, Sihong Chen … Baoyuan WuarXiv
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  10. 2023
    TARGET: Federated Class-Continual Learning via Exemplar-Free DistillationJie Zhang, Chen Chen, Weiming Zhuang, Lingjuan LyuICCV · ETH Zurich · Sony Corporation (United States)
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  11. 2023
    ConPET: Continual Parameter-Efficient Tuning for Large Language ModelsChenyang Song, Xu Han, Zheni Zeng … Tao YangarXiv
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  12. 2023
    Towards Adversarially Robust Continual LearningTao Bai, Chen Chen, Lingjuan Lyu … Bihan WenICASSP · Nanyang Technological University · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · +2
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  13. 2022
    Energy Alignment for Bias Rectification in Class Incremental LearningBowen Zhao, Chen Chen, Xi Xiao … Shu‐Tao XiaICASSP · Tsinghua University · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  14. 2021
    Lifelong Reinforcement Learning with Temporal Logic Formulas and Reward MachinesXuejing Zheng, Chao Yu, Chen Chen … Hankz Hankui ZhuoarXiv
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  15. 2021
    Energy Aligning for Biased ModelsBowen Zhao, Chen Chen, Qi Ju, Shu‐Tao XiaarXiv
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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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