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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
    EA: Elastic multi-level anchoring-based generative approach for federated class-incremental learningWanxin Wu, Gang Li, Lixin Liu … Jianfeng ZhaoExpert Systems with Applications · Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology · Wuhan University of Technology · +1
  2. 2026
    LDEPrompt: Layer-importance guided Dual Expandable Prompt Pool for Pre-trained Model-based Class-Incremental LearningLinjie Li, Zhenyu Wu, Huiyu Xiao, Jie YangICASSP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  3. 2026
    Emotion-augmented continual learning for empathic robot behaviorYuxuan Zhao, Tongwei Zhang, Siqi Liu … Wei WuExpert Systems with Applications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
  4. 2026
    Symmetric Image-Text Tuning With Entropy-Guided Fusion for Online Continual Learning in Non-Stationary Visual StreamsLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yujie Wei … Zhaofeng HeTIP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
  5. 2025
    Rethinking Class-Incremental Learning from a Dynamic Imbalanced Learning PerspectiveLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yunlong Wang … Zhaofeng HeIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  6. 2025
    GEMPA: Graph-Enhanced Multimodal Prototype Alignment for Class Incremental LearningYuling Chen, Zhenming Zhang, Chunxia Ren … Li XiaoFrontiers · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  7. 2025
    Dynamic Multi-Layer Null Space Projection for Vision-Language Continual LearningBorui Kang, Lei Wang, Zhiping Wu … Weiwei LiICCV · Nanjing University · University of Wollongong · +2
  8. 2025
    Lifelong Morphology Learning for Deformable Embodied AgentsYinsong Wang, Jing Zhao, Yubo Yang … Huaping LiuIROS · North China Electric Power University · Shanghai Institute of Technology · +2
  9. 2025
    Continual Origin Tracing of LLM-Generated TextHaoran Li, Quan WangSIGIR · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  10. 2025
    Incremental Learning Methods for Metaverse Intelligent Models with Distributed Data AwarenessBaowen Liu, Siya Xu, Shaoyong Guo … Zihan LiIEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Syst… · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology
  11. 2025
    Unleashing the Power of Continual Learning on Non-Centralized Devices: A SurveyYichen Li, Haozhao Wang, Wenchao Xu … Ruixuan LiIEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +5
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  12. 2025
    CMoA: Contrastive Mixture of Adapters for Generalized Few-Shot Continual LearningYawen Cui, Jian Zhao, Zitong Yu … Xuelong LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Oulu · China Telecom (China) · +6
  13. 2024
    Classification Performance Optimization Method Based on Semi-supervised Federated Learning and Dual-domain Knowledge DistillationHaolin Han, Haoran WangInternational Conference on Computer and Communications (… · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  14. 2024
    CP-Prompt: Composition-Based Cross-modal Prompting for Domain-Incremental Continual LearningYu Feng, Zhen Tian, Yifan Zhu … Meina SongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  15. 2024
    Continual Learning of Image Classes With Language Guidance From a Vision-Language ModelWentao Zhang, Yujun Huang, Weizhuo Zhang … Ruixuan WangIEEE TCSVT · Sun Yat-sen University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
  16. 2024
    Traceable Federated Continual LearningQiang Wang, Bingyan Liu, Yawen LiCVPR · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  17. 2022
    Communication-efficient federated continual learning for distributed learning system with Non-IID dataZhao Zhang, Yong Zhang, Da Guo … Xiaolin ZhuInformation Sciences · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  18. 2014
    An Empirical Investigation of Catastrophic Forgeting in Gradient-Based Neural NetworksIan Goodfellow, Mehdi Mirza, Xiao Da … Yoshua BengioICLR · Département d'Informatique · Université de Montréal · +1
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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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