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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026PDF ↗
  2. 2026
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJia-Hua Dong, Wen-Qi Liang, Hong-Liu Li … F. KhanTPAMI
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  3. 2026
    Continual Hand-Eye Calibration for Open-world Robotic ManipulationFazeng Li, Ganzhao Sun, Chenxi Liu … Yang CongarXiv
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  4. 2026
    Learning From Each Other: Generalized Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Wen-Qi Liang, Yang Cong … L. van GoolTPAMI
  5. 2025
  6. 2024
    MuseumMaker: Continual Style Customization Without Catastrophic ForgettingChenxi Liu, Gan Sun, Wen-Qi Liang … Yang CongTIP
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  7. 2024
    IOSL: Incremental Open Set LearningBingtao Ma, Yang Cong, Yu RenIEEE TCSVT
  8. 2024
  9. 2023
    Create Your World: Lifelong Text-to-Image DiffusionGan Sun, Wen-Qi Liang, Jiahua Dong … Yang CongTPAMI
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  10. 2023
    Heterogeneous Forgetting Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong, Gan SunICCV
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  11. 2023
    Gradient-Semantic Compensation for Incremental Semantic SegmentationWei Cong, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Henghui DingIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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  12. 2023
    Self-Paced Weight Consolidation for Continual LearningWei Cong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Jiahua DongIEEE TCSVT
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  13. 2023
    Angular Penalty for Few-Shot Incremental 3D Object LearningBingtao Ma, Yang CongIEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network
  14. 2023
    Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Duzhen Zhang, Yang Cong … Dengxin DaiCVPR
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  15. 2023PDF ↗
  16. 2023
    No One Left Behind: Real-World Federated Class-Incremental LearningJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Dengxin DaiTPAMI
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  17. 2023
    Lifelong Visual-Tactile Spectral Clustering for Robotic Object PerceptionYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT
  18. 2023
    Hierarchical Lifelong Machine Learning With “Watchdog”Gan Sun, Yang Cong, Changjun Gu … Haibin YuIEEE Transactions
  19. 2022
    Lifelong robotic visual-tactile perception learningJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Tao ZhangPattern Recognition · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  20. 2020
    I3DOL: Incremental 3D Object Learning without Catastrophic ForgettingJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Lichen WangAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  21. 2021
    What and How: Generalized Lifelong Spectral Clustering via Dual MemoryGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Haibin YuTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  22. 2021
    L3DOC: Lifelong 3D Object ClassificationYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Hongsen LiuTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  23. 2019
    Representative Task Self-Selection for Flexible Clustered Lifelong LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Qianqian Wang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +3
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  24. 2020
    Continual Multiview Task Learning via Deep Matrix FactorizationGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yulun Zhang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
  25. 2018
    Robust Lifelong Multi-task Multi-view Representation LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jun Li, Yun FuIEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK) · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
  26. 2018
    Clustered Lifelong Learning Via Representative Task SelectionGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yu Kong, Xiaowei XuICDM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +3
  27. 2017
    Lifelong Metric LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Ji Liu … Haibin YuIEEE Trans. Cybernetics · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  28. 2018
    Active Lifelong Learning With "Watchdog"Gan Sun, Yang Cong, Xiaowei XuAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +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. 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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