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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
    A negative-anchored self-relabeling strategy for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuNeurocomputing · Southeast University · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · +1
  2. 2026
    Elastic Multi-Gradient Descent for Parallel Continual LearningFan Lyu, Wei Feng, Yuepan Li … Liang WangTPAMI · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Tianjin University · +2
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  3. 2026
    From Cold-Start to Stabilization: A Dual-Prototype Framework for Online Any-Shot Continual LearningChengyan Liu, Linglan Zhao, Juping Gu … Fan LyuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  4. 2026
    GAIN: Global-Atomic INteraction Graph for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFan Lyu, Linglan Zhao, Changli Liu … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +6
  5. 2026
    Constructing Enhanced Mutual Information for Online Class-Incremental LearningHuan Zhang, Fan Lyu, Shenghua Fan … Dingwen WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Wuhan University · Institute of Automation
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  7. 2025
    Beyond Background Shift: Rethinking Instance Replay in Continual Semantic SegmentationHongmei Yin, Tingliang Feng, Fan Lyu … Liang WanCVPR · Tianjin University · Institute of Automation
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  9. 2025
    Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Asymmetric Supervised Contrastive LearningDuo Liu, Linglan Zhao, Zhongqiang Zhang … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent (China) · +4
  10. 2025
    Class activation map replay and minimum entropy sampling-based multilabel class-incremental learningYifan Zhou, Kaile Du, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuJournal of Image and Graphics · Southeast University
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  11. 2025
    Rebalancing Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningKaile Du, Yifan Zhou, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuAAAI
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  12. 2024
    Towards stable training of parallel continual learningLi Yuepan, Fan Lyu, Yuyang Li … Fanhua ShangarXiv
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  13. 2024
    Parameter-Selective Continual Test-Time AdaptationJiaxu Tian, Fan LyuAsian Conference on Computer Vision
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  14. 2024
    Towards Long-Term Remembering in Federated Continual LearningZiqin Zhao, Fan Lyu, Linyan Li … Li SunCognitive Computation · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Institute of Automation · +3
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  16. 2024
    Overcoming Domain Drift in Online Continual LearningFan Lyu, Daofeng Liu, Linglan Zhao … Liang WangarXiv
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  17. 2024
    Confidence Self-Calibration for Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningKaile Du, Yifan Zhou, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuECCV
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  18. 2023
    Constructing Sample-to-Class Graph for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFuyuan Hu, Jian Zhang, Fan Lyu … Fenglei XuarXiv
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  19. 2023
    Measuring Asymmetric Gradient Discrepancy in Parallel Continual LearningFan Lyu, Qing Sun, Fanhua Shang … Wei FengICCV · Tianjin University
  20. 2023
    Multi-Label Continual Learning Using Augmented Graph Convolutional NetworkKaile Du, Fan Lyu, Linyan Li … Hanjing ChengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Southeast University · +2
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  21. 2023
    Centroid Distance Distillation for Effective Rehearsal in Continual LearningDaofeng Liu, Fan Lyu, Linyan Li … Fuyuan HuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Tianjin University · +1
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  22. 2023
    Two-level Graph Network for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningHao Chen, Linyan Li, Fan Lyu … Fenglei XuarXiv
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  23. 2022
    Exploring Example Influence in Continual LearningQing Sun, Fan Lyu, Fanhua Shang … Liang WanNeurIPS
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  24. 2022
    AGCN: Augmented Graph Convolutional Network for Lifelong Multi-Label Image RecognitionKaile Du, Fan Lyu, Fuyuan Hu … Qiming FuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Tianjin University · +1
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  25. 2022
    Class-Incremental Lifelong Learning in Multi-Label ClassificationKaile Du, Linyan Li, Fan Lyu … Fenglei XuarXiv
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  26. 2021
    Multi-Domain Multi-Task Rehearsal for Lifelong LearningFan Lyu, Shuai Wang, Wei Feng … Song WangAAAI · Tianjin University · University of South Carolina · +1
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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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