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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Prototype Latent World Model Replay for Class-Incremental LearningWeizhi Nie, Hui Wang, Weijie Wang, Yuting SuarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Time Series Class-Incremental Learning via Confidence-guided Mask Distillation and Prototype-guided Contrastive LearningYu Liu, Haoqin Yang, Jinping Sui … Qi JiaAAAI · Dalian University of Technology · United States Naval Academy · +1
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  3. 2026
    Hybrid Offline–Online Learning of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Forecasting Nonstationary Streaming Time SeriesX. Liu, Yingjun Zhang, Hui Wang … Baigen CaiIEEE Transactions · Lanzhou Jiaotong University · Beijing Jiaotong University · +1
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  4. 2025
    An Orthogonality-Based Dual-Memory Framework for Continual Text ClassificationHan Zhang, Lei Yu, Bin Liang … Ruifeng XuIEEE Transactions · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · Harbin Institute of Technology · +1
  5. 2024
    FedFRR: Federated Forgetting-Resistant Representation LearningHui Wang, Jie Sun, Tianyu Wo, Xudong LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Beihang University
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  7. 2024
  8. 2023
    COPR: Continual Learning Human Preference through Optimal Policy RegularizationHan Zhang, Lin Gui, Yuanzhao Zhai … Ruifeng XuarXiv
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  9. 2023
    A Fully Distributed Training for Class Incremental Learning in Multihead NetworksMingjun Dai, Yonghao Kong, Junpei Zhong … Hui WangIEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communica… · Shenzhen University · Ubiquitous Energy (United States) · +2
  10. 2023
    COPF: Continual Learning Human Preference through Optimal Policy FittingHan Zhang, Lin Gui, Yuan-Zhao Zhai … Ruifeng XuarXiv
  11. 2022
    Prompt-Based Prototypical Framework for Continual Relation ExtractionHan Zhang, Bin Liang, Min Yang … Ruifeng XuIEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Proces… · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · Harbin Institute of Technology · +2
  12. 2022
    CLLE: A Benchmark for Continual Language Learning Evaluation in Multilingual Machine TranslationHan Zhang, Sheng Zhang, Yang Xiang … Ruifeng XuEMNLP · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +3
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  13. 2022
    Memory-Efficient Class-Incremental Learning for Image ClassificationHanbin Zhao, Hui Wang, Yongjian Fu … Xi LiTNNLS · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Advanced Research Institute
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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 lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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