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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
    Attention-Spectrum Regularization for Replay-Free Continual Multimodal LLMsChuangxin Zhao, Canran Xiao, Siyuan Ma … Yang LiuarXiv
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  2. 2026
    CGR: calibrating generative replay for exemplar-free class-incremental learningXingcheng Zhu, Kai Han, Xiaocheng Hu … Yang LiuMultimedia Systems · Jiangsu University
  3. 2025
    TongGu-VL: Advancing Visual-Language Understanding in Chinese Classical Studies through Parameter Sensitivity-Guided Instruction TuningJiahuan Cao, Yang Liu, Peirong Zhang … Lianwen JinACM International Conference on Multimedia · South China University of Technology · Shanghai Medical Information Center
  4. 2025
    Adversarial Robust Memory-Based Continual LearnerXiaoyue Mi, Fan Tang, Zonghan Yang … Yang LiuICCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
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  5. 2025
    Using samples with label noise for robust continual learningHongyi Nie, Shiqi Fan, Yang Liu … Zhen WangNeural Networks · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Tsinghua University
  6. 2025
    Federated Continual Learning via Orchestrating Multi-Scale ExpertiseXiaoyang Yi, Yang Liu, Binhan Yang, Jian ZhangNeurIPS · Nankai University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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  8. 2024
    Layer-Specific Knowledge Distillation for Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationQilong Wang, Yiwen Wu, Yang Liu … Qinghua HuTIP · Tianjin University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
  9. 2023
    Restricted Orthogonal Gradient Projection for Continual LearningZeyuan Yang, Zonghan Yang, Peng Li, Yang LiuAI Open
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  10. 2023
    Knowledge Transfer in Incremental Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine TranslationKaiyu Huang, Peng Li, Jin Ma … Yang LiuACL · Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +5
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  11. 2023
    Recent Advances in Class-Incremental LearningDejie Yang, Minghang Zheng, Weishuai Wang … Yang LiuSpringer LNCS · Peking University
  12. 2022
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting During Domain Adaptation of Seq2seq Language GenerationDingcheng Li, Zheng Chen, Eunah Cho … Yang LiuNAACL · Amazon (United States)
  13. 2022
    Entropy-Based Vocabulary Substitution for Incremental Learning in Multilingual Neural Machine TranslationKaiyu Huang, Peng Li, Jin Ma, Yang LiuEMNLP · Tsinghua University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +5
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  14. 2021
    Blind Adaptive Gait Planning on Non-stationary Environments via Continual Reinforcement LearningHao Hu, Yang LiuIEEE International Conference on Unmanned Systems (ICUS) · Sun Yat-sen 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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