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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. 2021
    CVPR 2020 Continual Learning in Computer Vision Competition: Approaches, Results, Current Challenges and Future DirectionsVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Pau Rodríguez … Davide MaltoniArtificial Intelligence · University of Bologna · Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute · +7
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  2. 2021
    Continuous Multi-View Human Action RecognitionQiang Wang, Gan Sun, Jiahua Dong … Zhengming DingIEEE TCSVT · Xidian University · Shenyang University · +3
  3. 2021
    Hierarchical Lifelong Machine Learning With “Watchdog”Gan Sun, Yang Cong, Changjun Gu … Haibin YuIEEE Transactions · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  4. 2021
    S2OSC: A Holistic Semi-Supervised Approach for Open Set ClassificationYang Yang, Hongchen Wei, Zhenqiang Sun … Jian YangACM Transactions · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Normal University · +3
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  5. 2021
    MFS: A Brain-Inspired Memory Formation System for GANYifan Chang, Yifan Wang, Jian Peng … Wenbo LiIEEE Transactions · University of Science and Technology of China · Anhui University · +3
  6. 2021
    Continual Learning for Fake Audio DetectionHaoxin Ma, Jiangyan Yi, Jianhua Tao … Chenglong WangInterspeech · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Center for Excellence in Education · +1
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  7. 2021
    Lifelong robotic visual-tactile perception learningJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun, Tao ZhangPattern Recognition · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  8. 2021
    Iterative Network Pruning with Uncertainty Regularization for Lifelong Sentiment ClassificationBinzong Geng, Min Yang, Fajie Yuan … Ruifeng XuSIGIR · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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  9. 2021
    Calibration for Non-Exemplar Based Class-Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng‐Lin LiuIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  10. 2021
    Prototype Augmentation and Self-Supervision for Incremental LearningFei Zhu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Chuang Wang … Cheng‐Lin LiuCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
  11. 2021
    A Tale of Two CILs: The Connections between Class Incremental Learning and Class Imbalanced Learning, and BeyondChen He, Ruiping Wang, Xilin ChenCVPR · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +1
  12. 2021
    I3DOL: Incremental 3D Object Learning without Catastrophic ForgettingJiahua Dong, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Lichen WangAAAI · Shenyang Institute of Automation · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  13. 2021
    Zero-shot policy generation in lifelong reinforcement learningYiming Qian, Fangzhou Xiong, Zhiyong LiuNeurocomputing · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +2
  14. 2021
    L3DOC: Lifelong 3D Object ClassificationYuyang Liu, Yang Cong, Gan Sun … Hongsen LiuTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  15. 2021
    Pruning-then-Expanding Model for Domain Adaptation of Neural Machine TranslationShuhao Gu, Yang Feng, Wanying XieNAACL · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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  16. 2021
    Domain-Lifelong Learning for Dialogue State Tracking via Knowledge Preservation NetworksQingbin Liu, Pengfei Cao, Cao Liu … Jun ZhaoEMNLP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +5
  17. 2021
    Incremental Concept Learning via Online Generative Memory RecallHuaiyu Li, Weiming Dong, Bao-Gang HuTNNLS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
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  18. 2021
    Continual Multiview Task Learning via Deep Matrix FactorizationGan Sun, Yang Cong, Yulun Zhang … Yun FuTNNLS · Northeastern University · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +2
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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