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The foundational work on continual learning, 1991 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2023
    Using Curiosity for an Even Representation of Tasks in Continual Offline Reinforcement LearningPankayaraj Pathmanathan, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del SerCognitive Computation · University of Maryland, College Park · Universidad de Granada · +3
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  2. 2023
    Handling Label Uncertainty for Camera Incremental Person Re-IdentificationZexian Yang, Dayan Wu, Wanqian Zhang … Weipinng WangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  3. 2023
    CUCL: Codebook for Unsupervised Continual LearningCheng Chen, Jingkuan Song, Xiaosu Zhu … Heng Tao ShenACM MM · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  4. 2023
    FDCNet: Feature Drift Compensation Network for Class-Incremental Weakly Supervised Object LocalizationSejin Park, Tae‐Hyung Lee, Yeejin Lee, Byeongkeun KangACM MM · Seoul National University of Science and Technology
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  5. 2023
    Towards Fast and Stable Federated Learning: Confronting Heterogeneity via Knowledge AnchorJinqian Chen, Jihua Zhu, Qinghai ZhengACM MM · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Fuzhou University
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  6. 2023
    UER: A Heuristic Bias Addressing Approach for Online Continual LearningHuiwei Lin, Shanshan Feng, Baoquan Zhang … Yunming YeACM International Conference on Multimedia · Harbin Institute of Technology
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  7. 2023
    Neuro-Inspired Fragmentation and Recall to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting in CuriosityJaedong Hwang, Zhang-Wei Hong, Eric Chen … Ila FietearXiv
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  8. 2024
    Generalizable Heterogeneous Federated Cross-Correlation and Instance Similarity LearningWenke Huang, Mang Ye, Zekun Shi, Bo DuTPAMI · Wuhan University
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  9. 2024
    TiC-CLIP: Continual Training of CLIP ModelsSaurabh Garg, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Hadi Pouransari … Fartash FaghriICLR
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  10. 2025
    Lifelong-MonoDepth: Lifelong Learning for Multidomain Monocular Metric Depth EstimationJunjie Hu, Chenyou Fan, Liguang Zhou … Tin Lun LamTNNLS · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · South China Normal University · +2
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  11. 2023
    Lifetime policy reuse and the importance of task capacityDavid M. Bossens, A.J. SobeyAI Communications · University of Southampton · Turing Institute · +1
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  12. 2023
    Minimax Forward and Backward Learning of Evolving Tasks with Performance GuaranteesVerónica Álvarez, Santiago Mazuelas, José A. LozanoNeurIPS
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  13. 2023
    COPR: Continual Learning Human Preference through Optimal Policy RegularizationHan Zhang, Lin Gui, Yuanzhao Zhai … Ruifeng XuarXiv
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  14. 2023
    CITB: A Benchmark for Continual Instruction TuningZihan Zhang, Meng Fang, Ling Chen, Mohammad‐Reza Namazi‐RadEMNLP
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  15. 2023
    Continual Named Entity Recognition without Catastrophic ForgettingDuzhen Zhang, Cong Wei, Jiahua Dong … Zhen FangEMNLP
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  16. 2023
    Coordinated Replay Sample Selection for Continual Federated LearningJack Good, Jimit Majmudar, Christophe Dupuy … Rahul GuptaEMNLP
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  17. 2023
    Orthogonal Subspace Learning for Language Model Continual LearningXinghuan Wang, Tianze Chen, Qiming Ge … Xuanjing HuangEMNLP
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  19. 2023
    Continual Learning for Generative Retrieval over Dynamic CorporaJiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo … Xueqi ChengCIKM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Amsterdam University of the Arts · +1
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  20. 2023
    Task Relation Distillation and Prototypical Pseudo Label for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Hongliu Li, Wei Wei Cong … Xiuyi ChenCIKM · Baidu (China) · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +3
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  21. 2023
    L2R: Lifelong Learning for First-stage Retrieval with Backward-Compatible RepresentationsYinqiong Cai, Keping Bi, Yixing Fan … Xueqi ChengCIKM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  22. 2023
    Look At Me, No Replay! SurpriseNet: Anomaly Detection Inspired Class Incremental LearningAnton Lee, Yaqian Zhang, Heitor Murilo Gomes … Bernhard PfahringerCIKM · Victoria University of Wellington · University of Waikato
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  23. 2023
    Towards a General Framework for Continual Learning with Pre-trainingLiyuan Wang, Jingyi Xie, Xingxing Zhang … Jun ZhuarXiv
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  24. 2023
    Continual Invariant Risk MinimizationFrancesco Alesiani, Shujian Yu, Mathias NiepertarXiv
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  25. 2023
    Learnware: small models do bigZhihua Zhou, Zhi-Hao TanInformation Sciences · Nanjing University
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  28. 2023
    New Insights on Relieving Task-Recency Bias for Online Class Incremental LearningGuoqiang Liang, Zhaojie Chen, Zhaoqiang Chen … Yanning ZhangIEEE TCSVT · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Institute of Software
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  29. 2023
    Recasting Continual Learning as Sequence ModelingSoochan Lee, Jaehyeon Son, Gunhee KimNeurIPS
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  30. 2023
    Bayesian Flow Networks in Continual LearningMateusz Pyla, Kamil Rafał Deja, Bartłomiej Twardowski, T. P. TrzcinskiarXiv
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  31. 2023
    Enhancing Plasticity for First Session Adaptation Continual LearningImad Eddine Marouf, Subhankar Roy, Stéphane Lathuilière, Enzo TartaglionearXiv
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  32. 2023
    CLIN: A Continually Learning Language Agent for Rapid Task Adaptation and GeneralizationBodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Peter Jansen … Peter E. ClarkarXiv
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  33. 2023
    Prior-Free Continual Learning with Unlabeled Data in the WildTao Zhuo, Zhiyong Cheng, Hehe Fan, Mohan KankanhalliarXiv
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  35. 2021
    Continual Learning: Fast and SlowQuang Pham, Chenghao Liu, Steven C. H. HoiTPAMI · Institute for Infocomm Research · Singapore Management University
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  36. 2023
    Federated Class-Incremental Learning with PromptingXin Luo, Liang, Fang-Yi, Jiale Liu … Xin-Shun XuExpert Systems with Applications
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  38. 2023
    Sub-network Discovery and Soft-masking for Continual Learning of Mixed TasksZixuan Ke, Bing Liu, Wenhan Xiong … Haoran LiEMNLP
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  39. 2023
    Incremental Object Detection with CLIPZiyue Huang, Yupeng He, Qingjie Liu, Yunhong WangarXiv
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  41. 2023
    TriRE: A Multi-Mechanism Learning Paradigm for Continual Knowledge Retention and PromotionPreetha Vijayan, Prashant Bhat, Elahe Arani, Bahram ZonoozNeurIPS
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  42. 2024
    STELLA: Continual Audio-Video Pre-training with Spatio-Temporal Localized AlignmentJaewoo Lee, Jaehong Yoon, Wonjae Kim … Sung Ju HwangICML
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  44. 2023
    TRACE: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Continual Learning in Large Language ModelsXiao Wang, Yuansen Zhang, Tianze Chen … Xuanjing HuangarXiv
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  45. 2023
    CoinSeg: Contrast Inter- and Intra- Class Representations for Incremental SegmentationZekang Zhang, Guangyu Gao, Jianbo Jiao … Yunchao WeiICCV
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  46. 2023
    Rationale-Enhanced Language Models are Better Continual Relation LearnersWeimin Xiong, Yifan Song, Peiyi Wang, Sujian LiEMNLP
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  49. 2024
    TAIL: Task-specific Adapters for Imitation Learning with Large Pretrained ModelsZuxin Liu, Jesse Zhang, Kavosh Asadi … Rasool FakoorICLR
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  50. 2023
    Diagnosing Catastrophe: Large parts of accuracy loss in continual learning can be accounted for by readout misalignmentDaniel Anthes, Sushrut Thorat, Peter König, Tim C KietzmannConference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
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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 led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times, and only papers with a PDF we can point you at, so every title opens the paper itself. 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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