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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.

172 papers of 6,984 · showing 151–172Sort Recent · Most cited
  1. 2021
    I3DOL: Incremental 3D Object Learning without Catastrophic ForgettingJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Lichen WangAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  2. 2021
    Zero-shot policy generation in lifelong reinforcement learningYiming Qian, Fangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong LiuNeurocomputing · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
  3. 2022
    What and How: Generalized Lifelong Spectral Clustering via Dual MemoryGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jiahua Dong … Haibin YuTPAMI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  4. 2021
    L3DOC: Lifelong 3D Object ClassificationYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Hongsen LiuTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  5. 2020
    Continual Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Iterative Network Pruning, Expanding and MaskingBinzong Geng, Fajie Yuan, Qiancheng Xu … Min YangACL · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +7
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  6. 2021
    Pruning-then-Expanding Model for Domain Adaptation of Neural Machine TranslationShuhao Gu, Yang Feng, Wanying XieNAACL · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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  7. 2021
    Domain-Lifelong Learning for Dialogue State Tracking via Knowledge Preservation NetworksQingbin Liu, Pengfei Cao, Cao Liu … Jun ZhaoEMNLP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +5
  8. 2019
    Representative Task Self-Selection for Flexible Clustered Lifelong LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Qianqian Wang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +3
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  9. 2020
    Fast Adapting Without Forgetting for Face RecognitionHao Liu, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei … Stan Z. LiIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  10. 2021
    Incremental Concept Learning via Online Generative Memory RecallHuaiyu Li, Weiming Dong, Bao-Gang HuTNNLS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
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  11. 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
  12. 2021
    Continual Multiview Task Learning via Deep Matrix FactorizationGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yulun Zhang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
  13. 2020
    Memory Protection Generative Adversarial Network (MPGAN): A Framework to Overcome the Forgetting of GANs Using Parameter Regularization MethodsYifan Chang, Wenbo Li, Jian Peng … Yingliang HuangIEEE Access · University of Science and Technology of China · Hefei Institute of Technology Innovation · +3
  14. 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
  15. 2019
    Continual learning of context-dependent processing in neural networksGuanxiong Zeng, Yang Chen, Bo Cui, Shan YuNature Machine Intelligence · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
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  16. 2018
    Hybrid incremental learning of new data and new classes for hand-held object recognitionChengpeng Chen, Weiqing Min, Xue Li, Shuqiang JiangJournal of Visual Communication and Image Representation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
  17. 2018
    Robust Lifelong Multi-task Multi-view Representation LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Jun Li, Yun FuIEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK) · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
  18. 2018
    Clustered Lifelong Learning Via Representative Task SelectionGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yu Kong, Xiaowei XuICDM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +3
  19. 2018
    Lifelong Metric LearningGan Sun, Yang Cong, Ji Liu … Haibin YuIEEE Trans. Cybernetics · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  20. 2018
    Active Lifelong Learning With "Watchdog"Gan Sun, Yang Cong, Xiaowei XuAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  21. 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
  22. 2018
    A novel random forests based class incremental learning method for activity recognitionChunyu Hu, Yiqiang Chen, Lisha Hu, Xiaohui PengPattern Recognition · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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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