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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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  2. 2026
    LUNCH: adaptive balancing of continual learning via hyperparameter uncertaintyQingyi Pan, Liyuan Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Jun ZhuInformation Sciences · Tsinghua University · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  4. 2026
    MePo: Meta Post-Refinement for Rehearsal-Free General Continual LearningGuanglong Sun, Hongwei Yan, Liyuan Wang … Yi ZhongICML
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  5. 2025
    HiDe-PET: Continual Learning via Hierarchical Decomposition of Parameter-Efficient TuningLiyuan Wang, Jingyi Xie, Xingxing Zhang … Jun ZhuTPAMI · Tsinghua University
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  6. 2024
    A Comprehensive Survey of Continual Learning: Theory, Method and ApplicationLiyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Hang Su, Jun ZhuTPAMI · Tsinghua University
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  8. 2023
    Incorporating neuro-inspired adaptability for continual learning in artificial intelligenceLiyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Qian Li … Yi ZhongNature Machine Intelligence · Chinese Institute for Brain Research · Center for Life Sciences · +2
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  9. 2023
    Towards a General Framework for Continual Learning with Pre-trainingLiyuan Wang, Jingyi Xie, Xingxing Zhang … Jun ZhuarXiv
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  13. 2022
    CoSCL: Cooperation of Small Continual Learners is Stronger than a Big OneLiyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Qian Li … Yi ZhongECCV
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  14. 2022
    Memory Replay with Data Compression for Continual LearningLiyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Kuo Yang … Jun ZhuICLR
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  15. 2022
    Brain-inspired global-local learning incorporated with neuromorphic computingYujie Wu, Rong Zhao, Jun Zhu … Luping ShiNature Communications · Tsinghua University · Chinese Institute for Brain Research · +1
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  16. 2021
    AFEC: Active Forgetting of Negative Transfer in Continual LearningLiyuan Wang, Ming‐Tian Zhang, Zhongfan Jia … Yi ZhongNeurIPS · Tsinghua University · University College London
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  17. 2022
    Triple-Memory Networks: A Brain-Inspired Method for Continual LearningLiyuan Wang, Bo Lei, Qian Li … Yi ZhongTNNLS · Chinese Institute for Brain Research · Center for Life Sciences · +1
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  18. 2021
    ORDisCo: Effective and Efficient Usage of Incremental Unlabeled Data for Semi-supervised Continual LearningLiyuan Wang, Kuo Yang, Chongxuan Li … Jun ZhuCVPR · Tsinghua University · Huawei Technologies (Sweden)
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  19. 2021
    Few-shot Continual Learning: a Brain-inspired ApproachLiyuan Wang, Qian Li, Yi Zhong, Jun ZhuarXiv
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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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