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The foundational work on continual learning, 1989 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    AWF: Adaptive Weight Fusion for Enhanced Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationZechao Sun, Shuying Piao, Haolin Jin … Luping ZhouInternational Conference on Digital Image Computing: Tech… · The University of Adelaide · The University of Sydney
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  2. 2026
    Release the Potential of Memory Buffer in Continual Learning: A Dynamic System PerspectiveZhenyi Wang, Li Shen, Tiehang Duan … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · University of Central Florida · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) · +6
  3. 2025
    Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMsJun Wang, Liang Ding, Shuai Wang … Bo DuNeurIPS · The University of Sydney · Wuhan University · +2
  4. 2025
    Dual-Attention Transformers for Class-Incremental Learning: A Tale of Two MemoriesShaofan Wang, Weixing Wang, Yanfeng Sun … Baocai YinIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Beijing University of Technology · The University of Sydney
  5. 2024
    Fast Online Adaptation of Visual SLAM via Variational Information Transfer and PreservationSangni Xu, Hao Xiong, Qiuxia Wu … Zhiyong WangACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · South China University of Technology · Macquarie University · +2
  6. 2024
    Adapt Without Forgetting: Distill Proximity from Dual Teachers in Vision-Language ModelsMengyu Zheng, Yehui Tang, Zhiwei Hao … Chang XuECCV · The University of Sydney · Huawei Technologies (Canada) · +1
  7. 2024
    Continual Learning From a Stream of APIsEnneng Yang, Zhenyi Wang, Li Shen … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · Northeastern University · University of Maryland, College Park · +4
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  8. 2024
    Topology-aware Embedding Memory for Continual Learning on Expanding NetworksXikun Zhang, Dongjin Song, Yixin Chen, Dacheng TaoKDD · The University of Sydney · University of Connecticut · +1
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  9. 2024
    Continual Learning for Temporal-Sensitive Question AnsweringWanqi Yang, Yunqiu Xu, Yanda Li … Ling ChenIJCNN · University of Technology Sydney · The University of Sydney · +1
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  10. 2024
    Ricci Curvature-Based Graph Sparsification for Continual Graph Representation LearningXikun Zhang, Dongjin Song, Dacheng TaoTNNLS · The University of Sydney · University of Connecticut
  11. 2024
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning by Exploring Eigenvalues of Hessian MatrixYajing Kong, Liu Liu, Huanhuan Chen … Dacheng TaoTNNLS · The University of Sydney · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
  12. 2023
    Online Visual SLAM Adaptation against Catastrophic Forgetting with Cycle-Consistent Contrastive LearningSangni Xu, Hao Xiong, Qiuxia Wu … Zhiyong WangICRA · The University of Sydney · South China University of Technology · +3
  13. 2023
    Trust-Region Adaptive Frequency for Online Continual LearningYajing Kong, Liu Liu, Maoying Qiao … Dacheng TaoIJCV · The University of Sydney · University of Technology Sydney
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  14. 2022
    Sparsified Subgraph Memory for Continual Graph Representation LearningXikun Zhang, Dongjin Song, Dacheng TaoICDM · The University of Sydney · University of Connecticut
  15. 2024
    Incremental Embedding Learning With Disentangled Representation TranslationKun Wei, Da Chen, Yuhong Li … Dacheng TaoTNNLS · Xidian University · Alibaba Group (China) · +1
  16. 2023
    Hierarchical Prototype Networks for Continual Graph Representation LearningXikun Zhang, Dongjin Song, Dacheng TaoTPAMI · The University of Sydney · University of Connecticut
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  17. 2022
    Continual Learning through Retrieval and ImaginationZhen Wang, Liu Liu, Yiqun Duan, Dacheng TaoAAAI · The University of Sydney · University of Technology Sydney
  18. 2022
    Continual Learning with Lifelong Vision TransformerZhen Wang, Liu Liu, Yiqun Duan … Dacheng TaoCVPR · The University of Sydney · University of Technology Sydney · +1
  19. 2021
    Artificial Neural Variability for Deep Learning: On Overfitting, Noise Memorization, and Catastrophic ForgettingZeke Xie, Fengxiang He, Shaopeng Fu … Masashi SugiyamaNeural Computation · RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project · The University of Tokyo · +1
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  20. 2021
    Layerwise Optimization by Gradient Decomposition for Continual LearningShixiang Tang, Dapeng Chen, Jinguo Zhu … Wanli OuyangCVPR · The University of Sydney · Group Sense (China) · +2
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  21. 2021
    Gradient Regularized Contrastive Learning for Continual Domain AdaptationShixiang Tang, Peng Su, Dapeng Chen, Wanli OuyangAAAI · The University of Sydney · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +1
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  22. 2021
    Continual Representation Learning for Biometric IdentificationBo Zhao, Shixiang Tang, Dapeng Chen … Rui ZhaoWACV · Group Sense (China) · University of Edinburgh · +1
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  23. 2021
    Variational Auto-Regressive Gaussian Processes for Continual LearningSanyam Kapoor, Theofanis Karaletsos, Thang D. BuiICML · Supélec · University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland · +3
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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 lists only 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. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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