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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
    Complementary Asymmetric Representation Learning for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningRunhang Chen, Xiao‐Yuan Jing, Xiaodong JiaACM Transactions · Wuhan University · Henan University of Engineering · +2
  2. 2026
    Random Dense Knowledge Distillation for Continual LearningJie Chu, Pei Liu, Tong Su … Zenglin ShiACM Transactions · Hefei University of Technology · Zhengzhou University
  3. 2026
    Towards Experience Replay for Class-Incremental Learning in Fully-Binary NetworksYanis Basso-Bert, Anca Molnos, Romain Lemaire … Antoine DupretACM Transactions · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · CEA Grenoble · +3
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  4. 2025
    THMM-CLIP: Task-Guided Hierarchical Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYingdong Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM Transactions · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +2
  5. 2025
    CorpusBrain++: A Continual Generative Pre-Training Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Language TasksJiafeng Guo, Changjiang Zhou, Ruqing Zhang … Xueqi ChengACM Transactions · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  6. 2025
    Online Continual Learning for Automatic Error Prevention in Data-Driven HRIJoshua Ravishankar, Malcolm Doering, Takayuki KandaACM Transactions · Kyoto University
  7. 2025
    Visuo-Tactile Class-Incremental LearningHao Fu, Fengyu Yang, Boyang Wang … Hui QianACM Transactions · Zhejiang University · Yale University · +3
  8. 2025
    Continual Learning for Image Captioning in HindiSantosh Kumar Mishra, Sriparna Saha, Pushpak BhattacharyyaACM Transactions · Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology · Indian Institute of Technology Patna · +1
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  9. 2024
    Multi-scale Consistency Deep Lifelong Cross-modal HashingLiming Xu, Hanqi Li, Jie Shao … Weisheng LiACM Transactions · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · China West Normal University · +2
  10. 2024
    Progressive Adapting and Pruning: Domain-Incremental Learning for Saliency PredictionKaihui Yang, Junwei Han, Guangyu Guo … Dingwen ZhangACM Transactions · Nanchang University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +4
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  11. 2024
    Dynamic Environment Responsive Online Meta-Learning with Fairness AwarenessChen Zhao, Feng Mi, Xintao Wu … Feng ChenACM Transactions · Baylor University · The University of Texas at Dallas · +1
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  12. 2023
    Distilled Meta-learning for Multi-Class Incremental LearningHao Liu, Zhaoyu Yan, Bing Liu … Abdulmotaleb El SaddikACM Transactions · China University of Mining and Technology · University of Ottawa
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  13. 2022
    Continual Recognition with Adaptive Memory UpdateXuanrong Yao, Xin Wang, Yue Liu, Wenwu ZhuACM Transactions · Tsinghua University
  14. 2022
    CL2R: Compatible Lifelong Learning RepresentationsNiccolò Biondi, Federico Pernici, Matteo Bruni … Alberto Del BimboACM Transactions · University of Florence
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  15. 2022
    RD-IOD: Two-Level Residual-Distillation-Based Triple-Network for Incremental Object DetectionDongbao Yang, Yu Zhou, Wei Shi … Weiping WangACM Transactions · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  16. 2021
    S2OSC: A Holistic Semi-Supervised Approach for Open Set ClassificationYang Yang, Hongchen Wei, Zhenqiang Sun … Jian YangACM Transactions · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +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. 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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