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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
    Adaptive memory replay for plasticity-aware edge continual learningP P Zhang, Jie Yang, Yong Yao … Yanping ChenExpert Systems with Applications · Guizhou University · Chengdu Institute of Information Technology (China)
  2. 2026
    CAFF-CIL: Causality-Aware Freedom Forgetting Approach for Class-Incremental Learning.Xinyu Zhou, Jing Yang, Xiaoli Ruan … Zhidong SuTNNLS · Guizhou University · National Institute of Measurement and Testing Technology · +1
  3. 2026
    Teleportation Links: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Decentralized Federated LearningXu Wang, Yuanzhu Chen, Qiang Ye, Octavia A. DobreIEEE Transactions · Queen's University · University of Calgary · +1
  4. 2025
    GCD: Advancing Vision-Language Models for Incremental Object Detection via Global Alignment and Correspondence DistillationXu Wang, Zilei Wang, Zihan LinAAAI · University of Science and Technology of China
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  5. 2024
    Continual Adaptation for Unsupervised Time Series Anomaly DetectionTing Yu, Bo Ding, Xu WangInternational Conference on Intelligent Computing and Sig… · National University of Defense Technology
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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