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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. 2026
    Reasoning Portability: Guiding Continual Learning for MLLMs in the RLVR EraQiuhe Hong, Yuyang Liu, Shuo Yang … Yong-Hong TianarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Online label aggregation with incomplete crowd responsesYuyang Liu, Haoyu Liu, Runze Wu … Changjie FanInformation Sciences
  3. 2025
    Continual Learning for VLMs: A Survey and Taxonomy Beyond ForgettingYuyang Liu, Qiuhe Hong, Linlan Huang … Yonghong TianarXiv
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  4. 2025PDF ↗
  5. 2024
    CASA: Class-Agnostic Shared Attributes in Vision-Language Models for Efficient Incremental Object DetectionMingyi Guo, Yuyang Liu, Zhi-Yuan Yan … Yonghong TianIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
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  7. 2024
    Resurrecting Old Classes with New Data for Exemplar-Free Continual LearningDipam Goswami, Albin Soutif-Cormerais, Yuyang Liu … J. WeijerCVPR
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  8. 2023PDF ↗
  9. 2023
    FeCAM: Exploiting the Heterogeneity of Class Distributions in Exemplar-Free Continual LearningDipam Goswami, Yuyang Liu, Bartłomiej Twardowski, Joost van de WeijerNeurIPS
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  10. 2023
    Self-Paced Weight Consolidation for Continual LearningWei Cong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Jiahua DongIEEE TCSVT
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  11. 2023
    CSSL-MHTR: Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Scalable Multi-script Handwritten Text RecognitionMarwa Dhiaf, Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Kai Wang … Ahmed Cheikh RouhouarXiv
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  12. 2023
    Lifelong Visual-Tactile Spectral Clustering for Robotic Object PerceptionYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT
  13. 2022
    Proper Reuse of Features Extractor for Real-time Continual LearningYu Li, Gan Sun, Yuyang Liu … Chuanzhi ZangChina Automation Congress (CAC) · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Shenyang University of Technology · +2
  14. 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
  15. 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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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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