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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. 2024
    Metaplasticity‐Enabled Graphene Quantum Dot Devices for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Artificial Neural NetworksXuemeng Fan, Anzhe Chen, Zongwen Li … Yishu ZhangAdvanced Materials · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University · +2
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  2. 2024
    Adaptive Federated Continual Learning for Heterogeneous Edge Environments: A Data-Free Distillation ApproachBingqing Jiang, Jun Du, Chunxiao Jiang … Jintao WangGLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference · Tsinghua University · Technology Innovation Institute
  3. 2024
    MAGR: Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization for Continual Action Quality AssessmentKanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang … Xiaohui LiangECCV · Durham University · Beihang University · +2
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  4. 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
  5. 2024
    Revisiting class-incremental object detection: An efficient approach via intrinsic characteristics alignment and task decouplingLiang Bai, Hong Song, Tao Feng … Jian YangExpert Systems with Applications · Beijing Institute of Technology · Tsinghua University
  6. 2024
    FPrompt-PLM: Flexible-Prompt on Pretrained Language Model for Continual Few-Shot Relation ExtractionLingling Zhang, Yifei Li, Qianying Wang … Jun LiuTKDE · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Lenovo (China) · +1
  7. 2024
    Relation Knowledge Distillation Based on Prompt Learning for Generalized Few-Shot Intent DetectionChaiyut Luoyiching, Yangning Li, Yinghui Li … Hanjing SuIJCNN · Tsinghua University · Tencent (China)
  8. 2024
    Representation Space Maintenance: Against Forgetting in Continual LearningRui Niu, Zhiyong Wu, Changhe SongIJCNN · Tsinghua University
  9. 2024
    Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts AdaptersJiazuo Yu, Yunzhi Zhuge, Lu Zhang … You HeCVPR · Dalian University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +1
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  10. 2024
    Orchestrate Latent Expertise: Advancing Online Continual Learning with Multi-Level Supervision and Reverse Self-DistillationHongwei Yan, Liyuan Wang, Kaisheng Ma, Yi ZhongCVPR · McGovern Institute for Brain Research · King Center · +1
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  11. 2024
    Triadic Elastic Structure Representation for Open-Set Incremental 3D Object RetrievalYang Xu, Yifan Feng, Lin Bie2024 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Tsinghua University
  12. 2024
    INCPrompt: Task-Aware Incremental Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental LearningZhiyuan Wang, Xiaoyang Qu, Jing Xiao … Jianzong WangICASSP · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute · Shenzhen Technology University · +3
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  13. 2024
    KC-Prompt: End-To-End Knowledge-Complementary Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningYaowei Li, Yating Liu, Xuxin Cheng … Zhiqi HuangICASSP · Peking University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
  14. 2024
    P2DT: Mitigating Forgetting in Task-Incremental Learning with Progressive Prompt Decision TransformerZhiyuan Wang, Xiaoyang Qu, Jing Xiao … Jianzong WangICASSP · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute · Shenzhen Technology University · +3
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  15. 2024
    A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and ApplicationLiyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Hang Su, Jun ZhuTPAMI · Tsinghua University
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  16. 2024
    TCP: Triplet Contrastive-relationship Preserving for Class-Incremental LearningShiyao Li, Xuefei Ning, Shanghang Zhang … Yu WangWACV · Tsinghua University · Peking University
  17. 2024
    Lifelong Learning With Cycle Memory NetworksJian Peng, Dingqi Ye, Bo Tang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Shanghai Zhangjiang Laboratory · Tsinghua University · +5
  18. 2024
    Dynamics-Adaptive Continual Reinforcement Learning via Progressive ContextualizationTiantian Zhang, Zichuan Lin, Yuxing Wang … Xiu LiTNNLS · Tencent (China) · Tsinghua University · +1
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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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