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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
    Pursuing Better Representations: Balancing Discriminability and Transferability for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningQi Li, Wei Wang, Hui Fan … Fei WenJournal of Imaging · National University of Defense Technology · Central South University of Forestry and Technology · +2
  2. 2023
    CL3: Generalization of Contrastive Loss for Lifelong LearningKaushik Roy, Christian Simon, Peyman Moghadam, Mehrtash HarandiJournal of Imaging · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Data61 · +3
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  3. 2019
    Unified Probabilistic Deep Continual Learning through Generative Replay and Open Set RecognitionMartin Mundt, Iuliia Pliushch, Sagnik Majumder … Visvanathan RameshJournal of Imaging · Goethe University Frankfurt · The University of Texas at Austin · +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. 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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