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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
    Federated Class Incremental Learning Method With High Accuracy and Extremely Low Communication Cost Based on Broad Learning SystemJie Du, Wenbing Chen, Peng Liu … C L Philip ChenIEEE Transactions · Shenzhen University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
  2. 2026
    Continual Adversarial Example Detection via Incremental Attack Configuration Within a Knowledge Distillation FrameworkHeqi Peng, Yunhong Wang, Hui Miao … Yuanfang GuoIEEE Signal Processing Letters · Beihang University · University of Macau
  3. 2026
    Reinforcement Learning with Semantic Rewards Enables Low-Resource Language Expansion without Alignment TaxZeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Zhou Liu … Wentao ZhangACL · Minzu University of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +4
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  4. 2025
    Swin-NSPT: Null-Space Prompt Tuning for Continual Learning in Swin TransformersYunjie Han, Hui Li, Zhengmin Jiang … Jianxing LiuIEEE 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data,… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +5
  5. 2025
    Learning New Concepts, Remembering the Old: Continual Learning for Multimodal Concept Bottleneck ModelsSongning Lai, Mingqian Liao, Zhangyi Hu … Yutao YueACM International Conference on Multimedia · Qingdao Center of Resource Chemistry and New Materials · University of Hong Kong · +3
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  6. 2025
    CIBLS-PLS: A Class-Incremental Broad Learning System With Pseudolabel-Guided Stacked StructureXin Liu, Zhaoyin Shi, Shuanghao Zhang … C. L. Philip ChenIEEE TAI · Shenzhen University · Shenzhen Technology University · +4
  7. 2025
    A Non-Pretrained Few-Shot Online Class Incremental Learning Design Based on Stochastic Adaptive Fourier DecompositionJunnan Wu, Liming Zhang, Yunzhao Wu, Chunyu TanInternational Conference on Signal and Image Processing (… · University of Macau · City University of Macau · +2
  8. 2024
    TactCLNet: Tactile Continual Learning Network Based on Generative Replay for Object Hardness RecognitionYiwen Liu, Zhengkun Yi, Senlin Fang … Xinyu WuIEEE Transactions · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +3
  9. 2021
    Relational Experience Replay: Continual Learning by Adaptively Tuning Task-Wise RelationshipQuanziang Wang, Renzhen Wang, Yuexiang Li … Deyu MengIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Tencent (China) · +1
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  10. 2024
    Class-Incremental Learning Method With Fast Update and High Retainability Based on Broad Learning SystemJie Du, Peng Liu, Chi‐Man Vong … C. L. Philip ChenTNNLS · Shenzhen University Health Science Center · University of Macau · +2
  11. 2023
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting for Fine-Tuning Pre-trained GANsZeren Zhang, Xingjian Li, Hong Tao … Chengzhong XuSpringer LNCS · Peking University · Baidu (China) · +2
  12. 2020
    Prototype-Based Discriminative Feature Representation for Class-incremental Cross-modal RetrievalShaoquan Zhu, Yong Feng, Mingliang Zhou … Ran WeiInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artifici… · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Chongqing University · +3
  13. 2018
    Broad Learning System for Class Incremental LearningRuizhi Han, C. L. Philip Chen, Shuang FengInternational Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis, a… · University of Macau
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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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