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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
    CC-GFRT: Class Correlation-based Granular Feature Refinement and Transfer for Non-Exemplar Class Incremental LearningR. S. Gao, Zongyong Deng, Yue Yang, Qijun ZhaoKnowledge-Based Systems · Sichuan University · Sino Biological (China)
  2. 2026
    Data-Segmentation Prompt Based Continual Learning Framework for Online Spatio-Temporal PredictionBanglie Yang, Liwei Deng, Cheng Dai, Kai ZhengICDE · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Aalborg University · +1
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  4. 2025
    Enhancing Replay-Based Continual Learning via Predictive Uncertainty ControllerChengying Ding, Alex Lu, Jiahao Fan, Yanan SunSpringer LNCS · Sichuan University
  5. 2025
    Evaluating Temporal Plasticity in Foundation Time Series Models for Incremental Fine-TuningJia Jia Liu, Cheng Jinguo, Fang Xia … Yuankai WuIJCNN · Sichuan University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
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  6. 2025
    Ferret: An Efficient Online Continual Learning Framework under Varying Memory ConstraintsYuhao Zhou, Yuxin Tian, Jindi Lv … Jiancheng LvCVPR · Sichuan University · National University of Singapore · +3
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  7. 2025
    DLA-FCIL: Federated Class-Incremental Learning for Dynamic Data with Forgetting Compensation and Auxiliary GeneratorsBowen Xing, Junqing Le, Di Zhang, Xiaofeng LiaoInternational Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artifici… · Chongqing University · Sichuan University
  8. 2025
    Graph-based interactive knowledge distillation for social relation continual learningWang Tang, Linbo Qing, Pingyu Wang … Yonghong PengNeurocomputing · Sichuan University · Anglia Ruskin University
  9. 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
  10. 2024
    A class-incremental learning approach for learning feature-compatible embeddingsHongchao An, Jing Yang, Xiuhua Zhang … Jianjun HuNeural Networks · Guizhou University · Guizhou Minzu University · +3
  11. 2023
    Deep Lifelong Cross-Modal HashingLiming Xu, Hanqi Li, Bochuan Zheng … Jiancheng LvIEEE TCSVT · China West Normal University · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · +2
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  12. 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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  13. 2024
    UniGrad-FS: Unified Gradient Projection With Flatter Sharpness for Continual LearningWei Li, Tao Feng, Hangjie Yuan … Ziwei LiuIEEE TII · Sichuan University · Chengdu University · +3
  14. 2024
    Revisiting Neural Networks for Continual Learning: An Architectural PerspectiveEmery A. Neufeld, Agata Ciabattoni, Radu Florin TulcanIJCAI · TU Wien · Sichuan University · +2
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  15. 2024
    Adaptive knowledge transfer for class incremental learningZhikun Feng, Mian Zhou, Zan Gao … Chuanhui LiPattern Recognition Letters · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
  16. 2023
    Lifelong Learning With Cycle Memory NetworksJian Peng, Dingqi Ye, Bo Tang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Shanghai Zhangjiang Laboratory · Tsinghua University · +5
  17. 2023
    Geometry and Uncertainty-Aware 3D Point Cloud Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationYuwei Yang, Munawar Hayat, Jin Zhao … Yinjie LeiCVPR · Sichuan University · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · +1
  18. 2020
    FoCL: Feature-Oriented Continual Learning for Generative ModelsQicheng Lao, Mehrzad Mortazavi, Marzieh S. Tahaei … Mohammad HavaeiPattern Recognition · Sichuan University · West China Medical Center of Sichuan University · +3
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  19. 2019
    Overcoming Long-Term Catastrophic Forgetting Through Adversarial Neural Pruning and Synaptic ConsolidationJian Peng, Bo Tang, Hao Jiang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Central South University · Mississippi State University · +3
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  20. 2020
    An Improved Dual-Channel Network to Eliminate Catastrophic ForgettingDongbo Liu, Zhenan He, Dongdong Chen, Jiancheng LvIEEE Transactions · Sichuan University · State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering · +1
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 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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