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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. 2025
    PromptDSI: Prompt-Based Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning for Document RetrievalTuan-Luc Huynh, Thuy-Trang Vu, Weiqing Wang … Thanh-Toan DoSpringer LNCS · Monash University
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  2. 2025
    Flashbacks to Harmonize Stability and Plasticity in Continual LearningLeila Mahmoodi, Peyman Moghadam, Munawar Hayat … Mehrtash HarandiNeural Networks · Monash University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +3
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  3. 2025
    CIT: Rethinking Class-incremental Semantic Segmentation with a Class Independent TransformationJinchao Ge, Bowen Zhang, Akide Liu … Yang ZhaoPattern Recognition · The University of Adelaide · Monash University · +1
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  4. 2024
    Active Continual Learning: On Balancing Knowledge Retention and LearnabilityThuy-Trang Vu, Shahram Khadivi, Mahsa Ghorbanali … Gholamreza HaffariSpringer LNCS · Kleinwächter (Germany) · Monash University
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  5. 2024
    Canonical Shape Projection Is All You Need for 3D Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningAli Cheraghian, Zeeshan Hayder, Sameera Ramasinghe … Mehrtash HarandiECCV · Australian National University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +6
  6. 2024
    Fast and Accurate Continual Test Time Domain AdaptationHaihang Wu, Bohan Zhuangon Continual Learning meets Multimodal Foundation Models:… · Monash University
  7. 2024
    Text-Enhanced Data-Free Approach for Federated Class-Incremental LearningMinh Tuan Tran, Trung Le, Xuan-May Le … Dinh PhungCVPR · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · Monash University · +1
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  8. 2024
    POLISH: Adaptive Online Cross-Modal Hashing for Class Incremental DataYu-Wei Zhan, Xin Luo, Zhen-Duo Chen … Xin-Shun XuACM Web Conference 2024 · Shandong University · Shandong Jianzhu University · +1
  9. 2023
    CL3: Generalization of Contrastive Loss for Lifelong LearningKaushik Roy, Christian Simon, Peyman Moghadam, Mehrtash HarandiJournal of Imaging · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Data61 · +3
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  10. 2023
    Flashback for Continual LearningLeila Mahmoodi, Mehrtash Harandi, Peyman MoghadamICCV · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · +3
  11. 2023
    Geometry and Uncertainty-Aware 3D Point Cloud Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationYuwei Yang, Munawar Hayat, Jin Zhao … Yinjie LeiCVPR · Sichuan University · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · +1
  12. 2023
    Exploring Data Geometry for Continual LearningZhi Gao, Chen Xu, Feng Li … Yuwei WuCVPR · Beijing Institute of Technology · Shenzhen University · +3
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  13. 2021
    Prototype-Guided Memory Replay for Continual LearningStella Ho, Ming Liu, Lan Du … Yong XiangTNNLS · Deakin University · Monash University · +1
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  14. 2022
    Semi-supervised Continual Learning with Meta Self-trainingStella Ho, Ming Liu, Lan Du … Shang GaoACM International Conference on Information & Knowled… · Deakin University · Monash University · +1
  15. 2022
    On Generalizing Beyond Domains in Cross-Domain Continual LearningChristian Simon, Masoud Faraki, Yi–Hsuan Tsai … Manmohan ChandrakerCVPR · Australian National University · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · +5
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  16. 2021
    Synthesized Feature based Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning on a Mixture of SubspacesAli Cheraghian, Shafin Rahman, Sameera Ramasinghe … Mehrtash HarandiICCV · Australian National University · Data61 · +2
  17. 2021
    Retrospective Class Incremental LearningQingyi Tao, Chen Change Loy, Jianfei Cad … Simon SeeIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Nanyang Technological University · Monash University · +1
  18. 2021
    Semantic-aware Knowledge Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningAli Cheraghian, Shafin Rahman, Pengfei Fang … Mehrtash HarandiCVPR · Australian National University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +3
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  19. 2021
    On Learning the Geodesic Path for Incremental LearningChristian Simon, Piotr Koniusz, Mehrtash HarandiCVPR · Australian National University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +3
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  20. 2021
    Plastic and Stable Gated Classifiers for Continual LearningNicholas I-Hsien Kuo, Mehrtash Harandi, Nicolas Fourrier … Hanna SuominenCVPR · Australian National University · UNSW Sydney · +5
  21. 2021
    Curriculum-Meta Learning for Order-Robust Continual Relation ExtractionTongtong Wu, Xuekai Li, Yuan-Fang Li … Guoqiang XuAAAI · Southeast University · Monash University · +1
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  22. 2021
    Total Recall: a Customized Continual Learning Method for Neural Semantic ParsersZhuang Li, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza HaffariEMNLP · Monash University
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  23. 2021
    Lifelong Explainer for Lifelong LearnersXuelin Situ, Sameen Maruf, Ingrid Zukerman … Gholamreza HaffariEMNLP · Monash University · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +2
  24. 2021
    One-Shot Neural Architecture Search: Maximising Diversity to Overcome Catastrophic ForgettingMiao Zhang, Huiqi Li, Shirui Pan … Steven W. SuTPAMI · Beijing Institute of Technology · Monash University · +2
  25. 2020
    Overcoming Multi-Model Forgetting in One-Shot NAS With Diversity MaximizationMiao Zhang, Huiqi Li, Shirui Pan … Steven W. SuCVPR · University of Technology Sydney · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  26. 2019
    An Incremental Construction of Deep Neuro Fuzzy System for Continual Learning of Nonstationary Data StreamsMahardhika Pratama, Witold Pedrycz, Geoffrey I. WebbIEEE Transactions · Nanyang Technological University · University of Alberta · +1
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  27. 2017
    Continual LearningClaude Sammut, Geoffrey I. WebbEncyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining · UNSW Sydney · Monash University
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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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