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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
    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  2. 2025
    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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  3. 2025
    Active Semi-supervised Continual Learning for Robotic Object RecognitionSangzhou Xia, Xiangli Nie, Peng WangSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
  4. 2025
    SEDEG:Sequential Enhancement of Decoder and Encoder's Generality for Class Incremental Learning with Small MemoryShaoling Pu, Hongyang Chen, Lingyu Zheng, Zhongwu SunSpringer CCIS · Zhejiang Lab · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  5. 2025
    Generalization-Preserved Learning: Closing the Backdoor to Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Deepfake DetectionXi Zhang, Peiyin Zhu, Chengwei Zhang … Yanming GuoICCV · National University of Defense Technology · National University of Singapore · +4
  6. 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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  7. 2025
    BiCon : Bi-Branch Network with Contour-Enhanced Features for Class Incremental LearningFengcheng Zeng, Qiming Yang, Heng Shu … Chenghao HuIJCNN · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Software · +2
  8. 2025
    FedPTR: Enhancing Federated Prompt Learning with Server-Side Retraining for Non-IID DataYufeng Chen, Min Liu, Sheng Sun, Zhongcheng LiIJCNN · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  9. 2025
    Activating Sparse Part Concepts for 3D Class Incremental LearningZhenya Tian, Jun Xiao, Lupeng Liu, Haiyong JiangCVPR · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  10. 2025
    Anterograde interference in multitask perceptual learningJia Yang, Fang-Fang Yan, Tingting Wang … Chang‐Bing Huangnpj Science of Learning · Peking University · Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · +6
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  11. 2025
    MoM: Continual Generative Retrieval via Mixture of MemoriesYihan Guo, Yilong Chen, Jiawei Sheng, Tingwen LiuInternational Conference on Information Science, Electric… · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  12. 2025
    Boundary-aware Prototype Augmentation and Dual-level Knowledge Distillation for Non-Exemplar Class-Incremental HashingQinghang Su, Dayan Wu, Bo LiKnowledge-Based Systems · Aerospace Information Research Institute · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  13. 2025
    Specifying What You Know or Not for Multi-Label Class-Incremental LearningAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  14. 2025
    DCA: Dividing and Conquering Amnesia in Incremental Object DetectionAoting Zhang, Dongbao Yang, Chang Liu … Yu ZhouAAAI · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  15. 2025
    Compression and restoration: exploring elasticity in continual test-time adaptationJingwei Li, Chengbao Liu, Xiwei Bai … Yu WangMachine Learning · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
  16. 2025
    Dual-Domain Division Multiplexer for General Continual Learning: A Pseudo Causal Intervention StrategyJian-Yong wu, Shaofan Wang, Yanfeng Sun … Qingming HuangTIP · Beijing University of Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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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