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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
    MCo2L: A unified framework for multimodal contrastive continual learning in audio-visual question answeringKunning Wu, Xinde Li, Xinde Li … Jin DengNeurocomputing · Southeast University · Northeastern University
  2. 2026
    We Need a More Robust Classifier: Dual Causal Learning Empowers Domain-Incremental Time Series ClassificationZhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Xuan Tang … Binwu WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Northeastern University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +2
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  3. 2026
    Few-shot class-incremental learning based on prompt guidance and multimodal fusionHaoming Fang, Haonan Cai, Keming Mao … Xinlu XiaoKnowledge-Based Systems · Northeastern University · China Mobile (China)
  4. 2026
    Release the Potential of Memory Buffer in Continual Learning: A Dynamic System PerspectiveZhenyi Wang, Li Shen, Tiehang Duan … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · University of Central Florida · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) · +6
  5. 2025
    Revisiting Flatness-Aware Optimization in Continual Learning With Orthogonal Gradient ProjectionEnneng Yang, Li Shen, Zhenyi Wang … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · Northeastern University · Sun Yat-sen University · +3
  6. 2025
    Research on the Online Update Method for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Model with Incremental LearningYuxin Fan, Yuxiang Wang, Lipeng Liu … Zidong YuInternational Conference on Neural Networks, Information… · University of Toronto · Stevens Institute of Technology · +3
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  7. 2025
    A Comprehensive Survey of Forgetting in Deep Learning Beyond Continual LearningZhenyi Wang, Enneng Yang, Li Shen, Heng HuangTPAMI · University of Maryland, College Park · Northeastern University · +1
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  8. 2024
    Continual Learning From a Stream of APIsEnneng Yang, Zhenyi Wang, Li Shen … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · Northeastern University · University of Maryland, College Park · +4
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  9. 2023
    Data Augmented Flatness-aware Gradient Projection for Continual LearningEnneng Yang, Li Shen, Zhenyi Wang … Xingwei WangICCV · Northeastern University · Jingdong (China) · +2
  10. 2022
    Deep Bayesian Unsupervised Lifelong LearningTingting Zhao, Zifeng Wang, Aria Masoomi, Jennifer DyNeural Networks · Bryant University · Bryan College · +1
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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 2020
    Learn-Prune-Share for Lifelong LearningZifeng Wang, Tong Jian, Kaushik Chowdhury … Stratis IoannidisICDM · Northeastern University
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  14. 2021
    Continual Multiview Task Learning via Deep Matrix FactorizationGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yulun Zhang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
  15. 2019
    Extensible Cross-Modal HashingTianyi Chen, Lan Zhang, Shi-cong Zhang … Bai-chuan HuangIJCAI · University of Science and Technology of China · Northeastern University · +1
  16. 2019
    Large Scale Incremental LearningYue Wu, Yinpeng Chen, Lijuan Wang … Yun FuCVPR · Northeastern University · Universidad del Noreste · +2
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  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
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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