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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
    Learning forward-compatible and domain-invariant representations for cross-domain few-shot class-incremental learningWeidong Shi, Xudong Yan, Jiazheng Yuan … Songhe FengNeural Networks · Beijing Jiaotong University · Beijing Normal University · +3
  2. 2026
    The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma Revisited: A Brain-Inspired Continual Learning Method with Representation-Function SeparationYuyang Han, Li Z, Zhiying Long, Xia WuICASSP · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  3. 2026
    Boosting Few-Shot Continual Learning via Self-Adaptive EvolutionZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Yue Wang … Zhen CuiTIP · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University · +2
  4. 2025
    FedART: Enhancing Replay in Federated Incremental LearningZijiang Tan, Haodi Wang, Libin Jiao, Rongfang BieACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Beijing Normal University · City University of Hong Kong · +1
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  5. 2026
    Rethinking softmax in incremental learningZheng Zhai, Jiali Zhang, Haiyu Wang … Qiang SunNeural Networks · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University · Beijing Normal University · +4
  6. 2025
    CLIP-driven Few-Shot Continual LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Zhen CuiIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Beijing Normal University
  7. 2025
    CALM: A Ubiquitous Crowdsourced Analytic Learning Mechanism for Continual Service Construction with Data Privacy PreservationKejia Fan, Yajiang Huang, Jingyu He … Yunhuai LiuACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technol… · Central South University · University of Pennsylvania · +6
  8. 2025
    Subnetwork Knowledge Injection and Transferable Parameter Updating Strategy for Continual Learning of Vision-and-Language TasksJiong Wang, Qing Zhang, Jie Liu … Yinqiao LiIEEE TAI · Beijing Normal University · North China University of Technology · +2
  9. 2025
    Prototypical Replay with Old-class Focusing Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionZesheng Liu, Qiannan Zhu, Cuiping Li, Hong ChenAAAI · Renmin University of China · Beijing Normal University
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  10. 2025
    Learn and Ensemble Bridge Adapters for Multi-domain Task Incremental LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Wenxuan Fang … Zhen CuiNeurIPS · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Google (United States) · +1
  11. 2023
    An ANN-Guided Approach to Task-Free Continual Learning with Spiking Neural NetworksJ. S. Zhang, Wentao Fan, Xin LiuSpringer LNCS · Huaqiao University · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University · +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. 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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