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The foundational work on continual learning, 1991 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 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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  2. 2026
    Key-Value Pair-Free Continual Learner via Task-Specific Prompt-PrototypeHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Zhengji Li … Fengyu CongNeural Networks · University of Jyväskylä · National University of Singapore · +3
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  3. 2025
    CoRe-KD: Contrastive Multi-Teacher and Retention-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Continual Multilingual Neural Machine TranslationLin Zhou, Degen HuangData Intelligence · Dalian University of Technology · Dalian University · +1
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  4. 2025
    ALADE-SNN: Adaptive Logit Alignment in Dynamically Expandable Spiking Neural Networks for Class Incremental LearningWenyao Ni, Jiangrong Shen, Qi Xu, Huajin TangAAAI · Zhejiang University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +1
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  5. 2025
    Multi-View Incremental Learning with Structured Hebbian Plasticity for Enhanced Fusion EfficiencyYuhong Chen, Ailin Song, Huifeng Yin … Mingkun XuAAAI · Fuzhou University · Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology · +2
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  6. 2024
    Boosting Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture-of-Experts AdaptersJiazuo Yu, Yunzhi Zhuge, Lu Zhang … You HeCVPR · Dalian University of Technology · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +1
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  7. 2024
    Efficient Spiking Neural Networks with Sparse Selective Activation for Continual LearningJiangrong Shen, Wenyao Ni, Qi Xu, Huajin TangAAAI · Zhejiang University · Dalian University of Technology
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  8. 2023
    Continual Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation via Dual Importance-based Model DivisionJunpeng Liu, Kaiyu Huang, Hao Yu … Degen HuangEMNLP · Dalian University of Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
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  9. 2021
    Lifelong Person Re-Identification via Adaptive Knowledge AccumulationNan Pu, Wei Chen, Yu Liu … Michael S. LewCVPR · Leiden University · Dalian University of Technology
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  10. 2018
    Fast Factorization-free Kernel Learning for Unlabeled Chunk Data StreamsYi Wang, Nan Xue, Xin Fan … Zhongxuan LuoIJCAI · Dalian University of Technology · University of Rochester
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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, and only papers with a PDF we can point you at, so every title opens the paper itself. 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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