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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Enhancing decision boundaries in continual learning through a decoupled Gaussian frameworkZHIKUN FENG, Chi Chen, Zhou Yang … Yakun JuInformation Processing & Management · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +3
  2. 2026
    CoMasTRe+: Unleashing Disentangled Continual Segmentation With Mixture of Continual AdaptersYizheng Gong, Siyue Yu, Liquan Shen, Jimin XiaoIEEE TCSVT · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Shanghai University
  3. 2025
    SDP: Spectral-Decomposed Prompting for Continual LearningSiqi Song, Limin Yu, Jimin XiaoACM International Conference on Multimedia · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  4. 2025
    You look from old classes: Towards accurate few shot class-incremental learningYijie Hu, Kaizhu Huang, Wei Wang … Qiufeng WangPattern Recognition · University of Liverpool · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · +1
  5. 2025
    TIPS: Two-level prompt selection for more stability-plasticity balance in continual learningZhikun Feng, Liang Peng, Kang Dang … Jionglong SuPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +3
  6. 2025
    Decoupling Overlapped Feature Spaces: When Continual Learning Meets Fine-Grain ClassificationZhikun Feng, Mingyu Wu, Ping Kuang … Yu LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
  7. 2025
    Covariance-Based Space Regularization for Few-Shot Class Incremental LearningYijie Hu, Guanyu Yang, Zhaorui Tan … Qiufeng WangWACV · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · University of Liverpool · +1
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  8. 2024
    Continual Segmentation with Disentangled Objectness Learning and Class RecognitionYizheng Gong, Siyue Yu, Xiaoyang Wang, Jimin XiaoCVPR · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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  9. 2024
    Adaptive knowledge transfer for class incremental learningZhikun Feng, Mian Zhou, Zan Gao … Chuanhui LiPattern Recognition Letters · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
  10. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning for Character String RecognitionYijie Hu, Yan‐Ming Zhang, Kaizhu Huang, Qiufeng WangSpringer LNCS · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  11. 2020
    State Primitive Learning to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting in RoboticsFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Hong QiaoCognitive Computation · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  12. 2020
    Encoding primitives generation policy learning for robotic arm to overcome catastrophic forgetting in sequential multi-tasks learningFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Amir HussainNeural Networks · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +7
  13. 2019
    Primitives Generation Policy Learning without Catastrophic Forgetting for Robotic ManipulationFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Amir HussainICDM · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
  14. 2018
    Guided Policy Search for Sequential Multitask LearningFangzhou Xiong, Biao Sun, Xu Yang … Zhiyong LiuIEEE Transactions · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Science and Technology Beijing · +4
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 led 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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