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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
    Continual learning of multiple cognitive functions with a brain-inspired temporal development mechanismBing Han, feifei Zhao, Yinqian Sun … Yi ZengNational Science Review · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Institute of Automation · +2
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  2. 2025
    Similarity-based context aware continual learning for spiking neural networksBing Han, Feifei Zhao, Yang Li … Yi ZengNeural Networks · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  3. 2024
    Information Bottleneck Based Data Correction in Continual LearningShuai Chen, Mingyi Zhang, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi HuangECCV · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  4. 2024
    Task-Wise Prompt Query Function for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningShuai Chen, Mingyi Zhang, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi HuangICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  5. 2024
    Exemplar-Based Continual Learning via Contrastive LearningShuai Chen, Mingyi Zhang, Junge Zhang, Kaiqi HuangIEEE TAI · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  6. 2023
    A brain-inspired algorithm that mitigates catastrophic forgetting of artificial and spiking neural networks with low computational costTielin Zhang, Xiang Cheng, Shuncheng Jia … Bo XuScience Advances · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
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  7. 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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  8. 2023
    Contrastive Correlation Preserving Replay for Online Continual LearningDan-Ping Yu, Mingyi Zhang, Mantian Li … Kaiqi HuangIEEE TCSVT · Harbin Institute of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
  9. 2023
    Continual Learning for Anthropomorphic Hand GraspingWanyi Li, Wei Wei, Peng WangIEEE TCDS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +3
  10. 2023
    Squeezing More Past Knowledge for Online Class-Incremental Continual LearningDahua Yu, Mingyi Zhang, Mantian Li … Kaiqi HuangIEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica · Harbin Institute of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
  11. 2022
    RT-Net: replay-and-transfer network for class incremental object detectionBo Cui, Guyue Hu, Shan YuApplied Intelligence · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
  12. 2022
    Balanced Ranking and Sorting For Class Incremental Object DetectionBo Cui, Hui Qu, Xuhui Huang, Shan YuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +4
  13. 2021
    Calibration for Non-Exemplar Based Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  14. 2021
    Prototype Augmentation and Self-Supervision for Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Chuang Wang … Cheng‐Lin LiuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  15. 2021
    Zero-shot policy generation in lifelong reinforcement learningYiming Qian, Fangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong LiuNeurocomputing · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
  16. 2020
    State Primitive Learning to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting in RoboticsFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Kaizhu Huang … Hong QiaoCognitive Computation · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  17. 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
  18. 2020
    Distill and Replay for Continual Language LearningJingyuan Sun, Shaonan Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing ZongCOLING · Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  19. 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
  20. 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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  21. 2019
    Incremental Learning from Scratch for Task-Oriented Dialogue SystemsWeikang Wang, Jiajun Zhang, Qian Li … Zhifei LiACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation · +3
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  22. 2018
    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting with Self-adaptive IdentifiersFangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong Liu, Xu YangSpringer LNCS · Shandong Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +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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