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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 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, Tai-Yu Ban … Huanhuan ChenIJCAI
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    CD^2: Constrained Dataset Distillation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningKexin Bao, Daichi Zhang, Han-Song Zhang … Shiming GeIJCAI
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    LiBOG: Lifelong Learning for Black-Box Optimizer GenerationJiyuan Pei, Yi Mei, Jialin Liu, Mengjie ZhangIJCAI
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    ReplayCAD: Generative Diffusion Replay for Continual Anomaly DetectionLei Hu, Zhiyong Gan, Ling Deng … Tianshui ChenIJCAI
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    SetKE: Knowledge Editing for Knowledge Elements OverlapYifan Wei, Xiaoyan Yu, Ran Song … Angsheng LiIJCAI
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    Towards Robust Incremental Learning under Ambiguous SupervisionRui Wang, Mingxuan Xia, Haobo Wang … Chang YaoIJCAI
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    Continual Multi-View Clustering with Consistent Anchor GuidanceChao Zhang, Deng Xu, Xiuyi Jia … Huaxiong LiIJCAI
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    Continual Compositional Zero-Shot LearningYang Zhang, Songhe Feng, Jiazheng YuanIJCAI
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    Continual Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning via Reward Model RehearsalLihe Li, Ruotong Chen, Ziqian Zhang … Lei YuanIJCAI
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    Joint Input and Output Coordination for Class-Incremental LearningShuai Wang, Yibing Zhan, Yong Luo … Dacheng TaoIJCAI
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    Navigating Continual Test-time Adaptation with Symbiosis KnowledgeXu Yang, Moqi Li, Jie Yin … Cheng DengIJCAI
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    Enhancing Fine-Grained Urban Flow Inference via Incremental Neural OperatorQiang Gao, Xiaolong Song, Li Huang … Xueqin ChenIJCAI
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    Fast and Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding via Incremental LoRAJiajun Liu, Wenjun Ke, Peng Wang … Yining LiIJCAI
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    Dynamically Anchored Prompting for Task-Imbalanced Continual LearningC. Hong, Yan Jin, Zhiqi Kang … Hanzi WangIJCAI
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    Continual Learning with Pre-Trained Models: A SurveyDa-Wei Zhou, Hai-Long Sun, Jingyi Ning … De-chuan ZhanIJCAI
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    Survey on Online Streaming Continual LearningN. Gunasekara, Bernhard Pfahringer, Heitor Murilo Gomes, A. BifetIJCAI
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  27. 2021
    Cognitively Inspired Learning of Incremental Drifting ConceptsMohammad Rostami, Aram GalstyanIJCAI · University of Southern California · California Southern University
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    Continual Multimodal Knowledge Graph ConstructionXiang Chen, Jintian Zhang, Xiaohan Wang … Ningyu ZhangIJCAI
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    A Survey on Dataset Distillation: Approaches, Applications and Future DirectionsJiahui Geng, Zongxiong Chen, Yuandou Wang … Chunming RongIJCAI
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    Evolutionary Generalized Zero-Shot LearningDubing Chen, Jiang, Chenyi, Haofeng ZhangIJCAI
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    Continual Federated Learning Based on Knowledge DistillationYuhang Ma, Zhongle Xie, Jue Wang … Lidan ShouIJCAI · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Zhejiang University
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    DyGRAIN: An Incremental Learning Framework for Dynamic GraphsSeoyoon Kim, Seongjun Yun, Jaewoo KangIJCAI · Korea University
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    Learning from Students: Online Contrastive Distillation Network for General Continual LearningJin Li, Zhong Ji, Gang Wang … Feng GaoIJCAI · Tianjin University
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    Continual Semantic Segmentation Leveraging Image-level Labels and RehearsalMathieu Pagé Fortin, Brahim Chaib-draaIJCAI · Université Laval
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    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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    Learning Unforgotten Domain-Invariant Representations for Online Unsupervised Domain AdaptationCheng Feng, Chaoliang Zhong, Jie Wang … Yasuto YokotaIJCAI · Fujitsu (China)
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    Stochastic Coherence Over Attention Trajectory For Continuous Learning In Video StreamsMatteo Tiezzi, Simone Marullo, Lapo Faggi … Stefano MelacciIJCAI
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    Towards Continual Learning in Interactive Digital Assistants for Process AutomationP. Venkateswaran, Vinod Muthusamy, Yara Rizk, Vatche IsahagianIJCAI
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    Learning with Selective ForgettingTakashi Shibata, Go Irie, Daiki Ikami, Yu MitsuzumiIJCAI · NTT (Japan)
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    Unsupervised Progressive Learning and the STAM ArchitectureJames Smith, Cameron Taylor, Seth Baer, Constantine DovrolisIJCAI · Georgia Institute of Technology
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    FedSpeech: Federated Text-to-Speech with Continual LearningZiyue Jiang, Yi Ren, Ming Lei, Zhou ZhaoIJCAI · Zhejiang University · Alibaba Group (United States)
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    Inter-Task Similarity for Lifelong Reinforcement Learning in Heterogeneous TasksSergio A. SerranoIJCAI · National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
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    Continual Lifelong Learning for Intelligent AgentsGhada SokarIJCAI · Eindhoven University of Technology
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    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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    Lifelong Zero-Shot LearningKun Wei, Cheng Deng, Xu YangIJCAI · Xidian University
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    Memory Augmented Neural Model for Incremental Session-based RecommendationFei Mi, Boi FaltingsIJCAI · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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    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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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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