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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. 2025
    Expanding the Category of Classifiers with LLM SupervisionDerui Lyu, Xiangyu Wang, Taiyu Ban … Huanhuan ChenIJCAI · University of Science and Technology of China
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  2. 2025
    Few-Shot Incremental Multi-modal Learning via Touch Guidance and Imaginary Vision SynthesisLina Wei, Yan Ma, Zhongsheng Lin … Dapeng ChenIJCAI · City University · Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Department · +4
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  3. 2025
    Diffuse&Refine: Intrinsic Knowledge Generation and Aggregation for Incremental Object DetectionJianzhou Wang, Yirui Wu, Lixin Yuan … Wenhai WangIJCAI · Hohai University · Ministry of Water Resources of the People's Republic of China · +5
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  4. 2025
    CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKexin Bao, Daichi Zhang, Hansong Zhang … Shiming GeIJCAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +1
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  6. 2025
    LiBOG: Lifelong Learning for Black-Box Optimizer GenerationJiyuan Pei, Yi Mei, Jialin Liu, Mengjie ZhangIJCAI
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  7. 2025
    ReplayCAD: Generative Diffusion Replay for Continual Anomaly DetectionLei Hu, Zhiyong Gan, Ling Deng … Tianshui ChenIJCAI
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  9. 2025
    Towards Robust Incremental Learning under Ambiguous SupervisionRui Wang, Mingxuan Xia, Chang Yao … Haobo WangIJCAI
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  11. 2024
    Dynamically Anchored Prompting for Task-Imbalanced Continual LearningChenxing Hong, Yan Jin, Zhiqi Kang … Hanzi WangIJCAI
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  12. 2024
    Continual Learning with Pre-Trained Models: A SurveyDawei Zhou, Hailong Sun, Jingyi Ning … De‐Chuan ZhanIJCAI
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  13. 2023
    Survey on Online Streaming Continual LearningNuwan Gunasekara, Bernhard Pfahringer, Heitor Murilo Gomes, Albert BifetIJCAI · University of Waikato · Victoria University of Wellington · +2
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  14. 2023
    Enhancing Efficient Continual Learning with Dynamic Structure Development of Spiking Neural NetworksBing Han, Feifei Zhao, Yi Zeng … Guobin ShenIJCAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
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  15. 2023
    Cognitively Inspired Learning of Incremental Drifting ConceptsMohammad Rostami, Aram GalstyanIJCAI · University of Southern California · California Southern University
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  17. 2024
    Continual Multimodal Knowledge Graph ConstructionXiang Chen, Jintian Zhang, Xiaohan Wang … Huajun ChenIJCAI
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  18. 2024
    Evolutionary Generalized Zero-Shot LearningDubing Chen, Jiang, Chenyi, Haofeng ZhangIJCAI
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  20. 2022
    Continual Federated Learning Based on Knowledge DistillationYuhang Ma, Zhongle Xie, Jue Wang … Lidan ShouIJCAI · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University
  21. 2022
    DyGRAIN: An Incremental Learning Framework for Dynamic GraphsSeoyoon Kim, Seongjun Yun, Jaewoo KangIJCAI · Korea University
  22. 2022
    Learning from Students: Online Contrastive Distillation Network for General Continual LearningJin Li, Zhong Ji, Gang Wang … Feng GaoIJCAI · Tianjin University
  23. 2022
    Continual Semantic Segmentation Leveraging Image-level Labels and RehearsalMathieu Pagé Fortin, Brahim Chaib-draaIJCAI · Université Laval
  24. 2022
    Multiband VAE: Latent Space Alignment for Knowledge Consolidation in Continual LearningKamil Rafał Deja, Paweł Wawrzyński, Wojciech Masarczyk … T. P. TrzcinskiIJCAI · Warsaw University of Technology · The University of Texas at Austin · +2
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  25. 2022
    Learning Unforgotten Domain-Invariant Representations for Online Unsupervised Domain AdaptationCheng Feng, Chaoliang Zhong, Jie Wang … Yasuto YokotaIJCAI · Fujitsu (China)
  26. 2022
    Stochastic Coherence Over Attention Trajectory For Continuous Learning In Video StreamsMatteo Tiezzi, Simone Marullo, Lapo Faggi … Stefano MelacciIJCAI
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  27. 2021
    Learning with Selective ForgettingTakashi Shibata, Go Irie, Daiki Ikami, Yu MitsuzumiIJCAI · NTT (Japan)
  28. 2021
    Unsupervised Progressive Learning and the STAM ArchitectureJames Smith, Cameron Taylor, Seth Baer, Constantine DovrolisIJCAI · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  29. 2021
    Knowledge Consolidation based Class Incremental Online Learning with Limited DataMohammed Asad Karim, Vinay Kumar Verma, Pravendra Singh … Piyush RaiIJCAI · Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · Duke University · +2
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  30. 2020
    Lifelong Zero-Shot LearningKun Wei, Cheng Deng, Xu YangIJCAI · Xidian University
  31. 2020
    Memory Augmented Neural Model for Incremental Session-based RecommendationFei Mi, Boi FaltingsIJCAI · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  32. 2019
    Complementary Learning for Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting Using Experience ReplayMohammad Rostami, Soheil Kolouri, Praveen K. PillyIJCAI · California University of Pennsylvania · University of Pennsylvania · +1
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  33. 2019
    Closed-Loop Memory GAN for Continual LearningAmanda Rios, Laurent IttiIJCAI · University of Southern California · California Southern University
  34. 2019
    Learning Shared Knowledge for Deep Lifelong Learning using Deconvolutional NetworksSeungwon Lee, James Stokes, Eric EatonIJCAI · University of Pennsylvania · Flatiron Health (United States) · +1
  35. 2019
    Extensible Cross-Modal HashingTianyi Chen, Lan Zhang, Shi-cong Zhang … Bai-chuan HuangIJCAI · University of Science and Technology of China · Northeastern University · +1
  36. 2019
    Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Networks for Continual LearningChayut Wiwatcharakoses, Daniel BerrarIJCAI · Tokyo Institute of Technology
  37. 2019
    Towards AutoML in the presence of Drift: first resultsJorge G. Madrid, Hugo Jair Escalante, Eduardo F. Morales … Michèle SébagIJCAI · National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics · Nanjing University · +2
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  38. 2018
    Fast Factorization-free Kernel Learning for Unlabeled Chunk Data StreamsYi Wang, Nan Xue, Xin Fan … Zhongxuan LuoIJCAI · Dalian University of Technology · University of Rochester
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  39. 2017
    Dual Track Multimodal Automatic Learning through Human-Robot InteractionShuqiang Jiang, Weiqing Min, Xue Li … Jiaqi ZhouIJCAI · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  40. 2017
    Neurogenesis-Inspired Dictionary Learning: Online Model Adaption in a Changing WorldSahil Garg, Irina Rish, Guillermo Cecchi, Aurélie LozanoIJCAI
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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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