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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 Faster Path to Continual LearningWei Li, Hangjie Yuan, Zixiang Zhao … Tao FengCVPR
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  2. 2026
    Learning Unknowns Without Forgetting Knowns: Compositional and Bidirectional Low-Rank Adaptive Open-World Detection TransformerY. M. Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Chunqiang XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
  3. 2026
    An Intrinsically Knowledge-Transferring Developmental Spiking Neural Network for Tactile ClassificationJiaqi Xing, Wei Li, Zezheng Zhang … Zhibin ZhangTNNLS · Uppsala University · Qatar University
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  4. 2025
    Fed-OGD: Mitigating Straggler Effects in Federated Learning via Orthogonal Gradient DescentWei Li, Zicheng Shen, Xiulong Liu … Jiaxing ShenIEEE Transactions · Jiangnan University · Tianjin University · +1
  5. 2025
    Prompt-Enhanced: Leveraging language representation for prompt continual learning.Wei Li, D. M. Li, Shitong Shao … Zhen LeiNeural Networks · Southeast University · Duke Kunshan University · +2
  6. 2025
    Dynamic Object Queries for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionJichuan Zhang, Wei Li, Shuang Cheng … Shengjin WangICASSP · Tsinghua University · Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  9. 2024
    UniGrad-FS: Unified Gradient Projection With Flatter Sharpness for Continual LearningWei Li, Tao Feng, Hangjie Yuan … Ziwei LiuIEEE TII · Sichuan University · Chengdu University · +3
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  12. 2024
    Lifelong Learning and Selective Forgetting via Contrastive StrategyLianlei Shan, Wenzhang Zhou, Wei Li, Xingyu DingarXiv
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  13. 2024
    Make Continual Learning Stronger via C-FlatAng Bian, Wei Li, Hangjie Yuan … Tao FengNeurIPS
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  14. 2018
    Incremental Learning of Single-stage Detectors with Mining Memory NeuronsWei Li, Qingbo Wu, Linfeng Xu, Chao ShangIEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communi… · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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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