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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. 2025
    Lifelong Active Inference of Gait ControlRudolf J. Szadkowski, J. FaiglTNNLS
  2. 2025
    Training a Dynamic Growing Mixture Model for Lifelong LearningFei Ye, Adrian G. BorşTNNLS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  3. 2025
    CKDF-V2: Effectively Alleviating Representation Shift for Continual Learning With Small MemoryKunchi Li, Hongyang Chen, Jun Wan, Shan YuTNNLS · Xiamen University of Technology · Zhejiang Lab · +2
  4. 2025
    SacFL: Self-Adaptive Federated Continual Learning for Resource-Constrained End DevicesZhengyi Zhong, Weidong Bao, Ji Wang … Wei Yang Bryan LimTNNLS · National University of Defense Technology · Sun Yat-sen University · +2
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  5. 2025
    Bias to Balance: New-Knowledge-Preferred Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Transition CalibrationHongquan Zhang, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XieTNNLS · East China Normal University · Xiamen University
  6. 2025
    SGB-Net: Scalable Graph Broad NetworkYuebin Xu, C. L. Philip Chen, Mengqi Wu, Tong ZhangTNNLS · South China University of Technology
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    CoLeCLIP: Open-Domain Continual Learning via Joint Task Prompt and Vocabulary LearningYukun Li, Guansong Pang, Wei Suo … Peng WangTNNLS · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Singapore Management University · +2
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    BFCP: Pursue Better Forward Compatibility Pretraining for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhiling Fu, Zhe Wang, Xinlei Xu … Wenli DuTNNLS · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · East China University of Science and Technology
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    HPCR: Holistic Proxy-Based Contrastive Replay for Online Continual LearningHuiwei Lin, Shanshan Feng, Baoquan Zhang … Yunming YeTNNLS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +1
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    Branch-Tuning: Balancing Stability and Plasticity for Continual Self-Supervised LearningWenzhuo Liu, Fei Zhu, Cheng‐Lin LiuTNNLS · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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    Contrastive Continual Multiview Clustering With Filtered Structural FusionXinhang Wan, Jiyuan Liu, Hao Yu … En ZhuTNNLS · National University of Defense Technology · Harbin University of Science and Technology
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  12. 2025
    A Survey on Knowledge Editing of Neural NetworksVittorio Mazzia, Alessandro Pedrani, Andrea Caciolai … Davide BernardiTNNLS · Amazon (United States)
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    Continual Learning With Knowledge Distillation: A SurveySongze Li, Tonghua Su, Xu-Yao Zhang, Zhongjie WangTNNLS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  14. 2025
    Wake-Sleep Consolidated LearningAmelia Sorrenti, Giovanni Bellitto, Federica Proietto Salanitri … Concetto SpampinatoTNNLS · University of Catania
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  15. 2025
    Brain-Inspired Fast- and Slow-Update Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningHang Ran, Xingyu Gao, Lusi Li … Xin NingTNNLS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Semiconductors · +3
  16. 2025
    StaRS: Learning a Stable Representation Space for Continual Relation ClassificationNing Pang, Xiang Zhao, Weixin Zeng … Weidong XiaoTNNLS · National University of Defense Technology
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    Double Confidence Calibration Focused Distillation for Task-Incremental LearningZhiling Fu, Zhe Wang, Cheng‐Wei Yu … Dongdong LiTNNLS · East China University of Science and Technology
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    Few-Shot Continual Learning via Flat-to-Wide ApproachesM. Anwar Ma’sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Edwin Lughofer … Ryszard KowalczykTNNLS · University of South Australia · Johannes Kepler University of Linz
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  19. 2025
    Multiagent Continual Coordination via Progressive Task ContextualizationLei Yuan, Lihe Li, Ziqian Zhang … Yang YuTNNLS · Nanjing University
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  20. 2025
    Continual Learning With Unknown Task BoundaryXiaoxie Zhu, Jinfeng Yi, Lijun ZhangTNNLS · Nanjing University
  21. 2025
    DyCR: A Dynamic Clustering and Recovering Network for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZicheng Pan, Xiaohan Yu, Miaohua Zhang … Yongsheng GaoTNNLS · Griffith University · Macquarie University · +2
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    Adaptive Synaptic Scaling in Spiking Networks for Continual Learning and Enhanced RobustnessMingkun Xu, Faqiang Liu, Yifan Hu … Lei DengTNNLS · Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology · Tsinghua University · +2
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    Dual Balanced Class-Incremental Learning With im-Softmax and Angular RectificationRuicong Zhi, Yicheng Meng, Junyi Hou, Jun WanTNNLS · University of Science and Technology Beijing · National University of Singapore · +4
  24. 2025
    Imbalance Mitigation for Continual Learning via Knowledge Decoupling and Dual Enhanced Contrastive LearningZhong Ji, Zhanyu Jiao, Qiang Wang … Jungong HanTNNLS · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
  25. 2025
    Lifelong-MonoDepth: Lifelong Learning for Multidomain Monocular Metric Depth EstimationJunjie Hu, Chenyou Fan, Liguang Zhou … Tin Lun LamTNNLS · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · South China Normal University · +2
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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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