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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. 2025PDF ↗
  2. 2025
    Diffuse&Refine: Intrinsic Knowledge Generation and Aggregation for Incremental Object DetectionJianzhou Wang, Yirui Wu, Lixin Yuan … Wenhai WangIJCAI · Hohai University · Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China · +5
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  3. 2025
    Replay Master: Automatic Sample Selection and Effective Memory Utilization for Continual Semantic SegmentationLanyun Zhu, Tianrun Chen, Jianxiong Yin … Jun LiuTPAMI · Singapore University of Technology and Design · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · +1
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  4. 2025
    Rethinking Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding: Benchmarks and AnalysisTianzhe Zhao, Jiaoyan Chen, Yanchi Ru … Jun LiuSIGIR · Xi'an Jiaotong University · University of Manchester · +3
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  5. 2025
    Deconfound Semantic Shift and Incompleteness in Incremental Few-shot Semantic SegmentationYirui Wu, Yuhang Xia, Hao Li … Shaohua WanAAAI · Hohai University · Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China · +3
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  6. 2021
    Recent Advances of Continual Learning in Computer Vision: An OverviewHaoxuan Qu, Hossein Rahmani, Li Xu … Jun LiuIET Computer Vision · Lancaster University · Singapore University of Technology and Design
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  7. 2024
    Information Retrieval Optimization for Non-Exemplar Class Incremental LearningShuai Guo, Yang Gu, Yuan Ma … Yiqiang ChenCIKM · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  8. 2024
    FPrompt-PLM: Flexible-Prompt on Pretrained Language Model for Continual Few-Shot Relation ExtractionLingling Zhang, Yifei Li, Qianying Wang … Jun LiuTKDE · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Lenovo (China) · +1
  9. 2024
    Learning Task-Aware Language-Image Representation for Class-Incremental Object DetectionHongquan Zhang, Bin-Bin Gao, Yi Zeng … Yuan XieAAAI · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
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  10. 2023
    Cross-Modal Alternating Learning With Task-Aware Representations for Continual LearningWujin Li, Bin-Bin Gao, Bizhong Xia … Feng ZhengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University Town of Shenzhen · Tsinghua University · +2
  11. 2023
    Instance and Category Supervision are Alternate Learners for Continual LearningXudong Tian, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieICCV · Chongqing Normal University · Shanghai Key Laboratory of Computer Software Testing and Evaluating · +3
  12. 2023
    Continual Semantic Segmentation with Automatic Memory Sample SelectionLanyun Zhu, Tianrun Chen, Jianxiong Yin … Jun LiuCVPR · Singapore University of Technology and Design · Zhejiang University · +1
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  13. 2023
    Rethinking Gradient Projection Continual Learning: Stability/Plasticity Feature Space DecouplingZhen Zhao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Lizhuang MaCVPR · East China Normal University · Tencent (China) · +1
  14. 2023
    Experts Collaboration Learning for Continual Multi-Modal ReasoningLi Xu, Jun LiuTIP · Singapore University of Technology and Design
  15. 2022
    Incremental Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation via Embedding Adaptive-Update and Hyper-class RepresentationGuangchen Shi, Yirui Wu, Jun Liu … Tong LüACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hohai University · Singapore University of Technology and Design · +3
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  16. 2022PDF ↗
  17. 2021
    Else-Net: Elastic Semantic Network for Continual Action Recognition from Skeleton DataTianjiao Li, Qiuhong Ke, Hossein Rahmani … Jun LiuICCV · Singapore University of Technology and Design · The University of Melbourne · +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. 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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