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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
    EvoHarnessBench: Can Your Agents Keep Pace with an Evolving Harness?Zixuan Ke, Vaidehi Patil, Haizhou Shi … Shafiq JotyarXiv
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  3. 2025
    Continual Adaptation: Environment-Conditional Parameter Generation for Object Detection in Dynamic ScenariosLi Deng, Aming Wu, Yang Li … Yahong HanICCV · Tianjin University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  4. 2025
    Rethinking Continual Learning with Progressive Neural CollapseZheng Wang, Wenhua Yu, Yang Li, Sen LinICLR
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  5. 2025
    Exploiting Task Relationships in Continual Learning via Transferability-Aware Task EmbeddingsYanru Wu, Jianning Wang, Xiangyu Chen … Yang LiNeurIPS · Tsinghua University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +3
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  6. 2025
    Similarity-based context aware continual learning for spiking neural networksBing Han, Feifei Zhao, Yang Li … Yi ZengNeural Networks · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  7. 2024
  8. 2024
    Contrastive Continual Learning with Importance Sampling and Prototype-Instance Relation DistillationJiyong Li, Dilshod Azizov, Yang Li, Shangsong LiangAAAI · Sun Yat-sen University · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  9. 2024
    Learning a Low-Rank Feature Representation: Achieving Better Trade-Off Between Stability and Plasticity in Continual LearningZhenrong Liu, Yang Li, Yi Gong, Yik‐Chung WuICASSP · Southern University of Science and Technology · University of Hong Kong · +1
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  10. 2022
    XST: A Crossbar Column-wise Sparse Training for Efficient Continual LearningFan Zhang, Yang Li, Jian Meng … Deliang FanDesign, Automation & Test in Europe Conference &… · Arizona State University
  11. 2022
    XBM: A Crossbar Column-wise Binary Mask Learning Method for Efficient Multiple Task AdaptionFan Zhang, Yang Li, Jian Meng … Deliang FanAsia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-… · Arizona State University
  12. 2020
    SEM: Adaptive Staged Experience Access Mechanism for Reinforcement LearningJianshu Wang, Xinzhi Wang, Xiangfeng Luo … Yang LiIEEE 32nd International Conference on Tools with Artifici… · Shanghai University of Engineering Science
  13. 2020
    Learn#: A Novel incremental learning method for text classificationGuangxu Shan, Shiyao Xu, Yang Li … Yang XiangExpert Systems with Applications · Tongji University
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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