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The foundational work on continual learning, 1989 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Learning Unknowns Without Forgetting Knowns: Compositional and Bidirectional Low-Rank Adaptive Open-World Detection TransformerY. M. Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Chunqiang XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
  2. 2026
    KG-AsyncFed:Knowledge-sensitivity and generative replay synergized asynchronous federated continual learning frameworkShaohua Cao, Ge Shen, Xuyang Yuan … W. ZhangComputer Networks · China University of Petroleum, East China · Southwest Jiaotong University · +1
  3. 2026
    Robust Personalized Federated Continual Learning via Explainable Multi-Granularity Prompt.Hao Yu, Xiaomin Yang, Boyang Fan … Qiang YangTPAMI · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) · Shenzhen Weiguang Biological Products (China) · +3
  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
    Class-Specific Knowledge-Guided Multimodal Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFangying Xiong, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu, Changsheng XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  6. 2025
    Improving Open-world Continual Learning under the Constraints of Scarce Labeled DataYujie Li, Xiangkun Wang, Xin Yang … Tianrui LiKDD · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Leiden University · +2
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  7. 2025
    ErrorEraser: Unlearning Data Bias for Improved Continual LearningXuemei Cao, Hanlin Gu, Xin Yang … Tianrui LiKDD · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  8. 2025
    Handling Spatial-Temporal Data Heterogeneity for Federated Continual Learning via Tail AnchorHao Yu, Xin Yang, Le Zhang … Qiang YangCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
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  9. 2025
    Order-Robust Class Incremental Learning: Graph-Driven Dynamic Similarity GroupingGuangda Lai, Yujie Li, Xiangkun Wang … Xin YangCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  10. 2025
    Adaptive federated class-Incremental learning for reducing catastrophic forgettingZhiyan You, Jielei Chu, Zhaoyu Li … Tianrui LiExpert Systems with Applications · Southwest Jiaotong University · China Railway Group (China) · +1
  11. 2025
    A Continual Learning Approach for Embodied Question Answering with Generative Adversarial Imitation LearningXin Zeng, Haonan Luo, Zihang Wang … Tianrui LiICASSP · Southwest Jiaotong University · Beihang University
  12. 2025
    Feature Mixup with Normalized Logit Knowledge Distillation for Class Incremental LearningXijia Hong, Hongyu ZhaoIEEE 5th International Conference on Power, Electronics a… · Southwest Jiaotong University
  13. 2024
    TMM-CLIP: Task-guided Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYuankang Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +1
  14. 2024
    Overcoming Spatial-Temporal Catastrophic Forgetting for Federated Class-Incremental LearningHao Yu, Xin Yang, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Sichuan University · +2
  15. 2024
    Personalized Federated Continual Learning via Multi-Granularity PromptHao Yu, Xin Yang, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiKDD · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Sichuan University · +3
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  16. 2024
    Continual Learning for Smart City: A SurveyLi Yi Yang, Zhipeng Luo, Shiming Zhang … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  17. 2024
    Open Continual Feature Selection via Granular-Ball Knowledge TransferXuemei Cao, Xin Yang, Shuyin Xia … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +1
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  18. 2024
    FedProK: Trustworthy Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Prototypical Feature Knowledge TransferXin Gao, Xin Yang, Hao Yu … Tianrui LiCVPR · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  19. 2024
    Federated Continual Learning via Knowledge Fusion: A SurveyXin Yang, Hao Yu, Xin Gao … Tianrui LiTKDE · Southwestern University of Finance and Economics · Nanyang Technological University · +2
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  20. 2023
    None-Exemplar Class Incremental Learning with Feature Contrast and Expanded DistillationYao Wang, Hongyu ZhaoInternational Conference on Automation, Robotics and Comp… · Southwest Jiaotong University
  21. 2023
    Deep Lifelong Learning Optimization Algorithm in Dense Region FusionLinghao Zhang, Fan Ding, Siyu Xiang … Hongjun WangApplied Sciences · Inner Mongolia Electric Power (China) · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  22. 2021
    Incremental sequential three-way decision based on continual learning networkHongyuan Li, Hong Yu, Hong Yu … Huaxiong LiInternational Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics · Nanjing University · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +2
  23. 2021
    Continual Learning with Knowledge Transfer for Sentiment ClassificationZixuan Ke, Bing Liu, Hao Wang, Lei ShuSpringer LNCS · University of Illinois Chicago · Southwest Jiaotong University
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  24. 2019
    Forward and Backward Knowledge Transfer for Sentiment ClassificationHao Wang, Bing Liu, Shuai Wang … Yan YangMachine Learning · Southwest Jiaotong University · University of Illinois Chicago
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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 written 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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