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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
    Swin-NSPT: Null-Space Prompt Tuning for Continual Learning in Swin TransformersYunjie Han, Hui Li, Zhengmin Jiang … Jianxing LiuIEEE 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data,… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +5
  2. 2025
    Dual-Attention based prompt generation and catalyzing for instance-wise continual learningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangPattern Recognition · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +5
  3. 2025
    Incremental Tucker Decomposition for Scalable and Efficient Multilingual Speech RecognitionGuanghui Song, Ye Hong, Xitong Gao … Kejiang YeIJCNN · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
  4. 2025
    Prompt Customization for Continual LearningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangIEEE TAI · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +6
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  5. 2024
    TactCLNet: Tactile Continual Learning Network Based on Generative Replay for Object Hardness RecognitionYiwen Liu, Zhengkun Yi, Senlin Fang … Xinyu WuIEEE Transactions · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +3
  6. 2024
    Evolving Parameterized Prompt Memory for Continual LearningMuhammad Rifki Kurniawan, Xiang Song, Zhiheng Ma … Xing WeiAAAI · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  7. 2023
    Evaluation of Continual Learning Methods for Object Hardness RecognitionYiwen Liu, Senlin Fang, Chengliang Liu … Xinyu WuIEEE International Conference on Real-time Computing and… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +2
  8. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue System with Contrastive Distillation on Internal Representations (Student Abstract)Qiancheng Xu, Min Yang, Binzong GengAAAI · Georgia Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +1
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  9. 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
  10. 2021
    Continual Learning for Sentiment Classification by Iterative Networks CombinationShupeng Wang, Junhao LiuInternational Conference on Computer Science and Artifici… · University of Science and Technology of China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
  11. 2021
    Flattening Sharpness for Dynamic Gradient Projection Memory Benefits Continual LearningDanruo Deng, Guangyong Chen, Jianye Hao … Pheng‐Ann HengNeurIPS · Chinese University of Hong Kong · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +1
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  12. 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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  13. 2021
    Layerwise Optimization by Gradient Decomposition for Continual LearningShixiang Tang, Dapeng Chen, Jinguo Zhu … Wanli OuyangCVPR · The University of Sydney · Group Sense (China) · +2
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  14. 2020
    Continual Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Iterative Network Pruning, Expanding and MaskingBinzong Geng, Fajie Yuan, Qiancheng Xu … Min YangACL · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +7
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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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