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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. 2023
    SketchOGD: Memory-Efficient Continual LearningYoungjae Min, Benjamin Wright, J. M. Bernstein, Navid AzizanIEEE Transactions · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  2. 2026
    Evolutionary Strategies at Scale lead to Catastrophic ForgettingImmanuel Abdi, Akshat Gupta, Micah Mok … Gopala AnumanchipalliACL · Berkeley College · University of California, Berkeley
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  3. 2026
    Reinforcement Learning with Semantic Rewards Enables Low-Resource Language Expansion without Alignment TaxZeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Zhou Liu … Wentao ZhangACL · Minzu University of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +4
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  4. 2026
    SLoRA: Balancing Plasticity and Forgetting in Large Language Models for Continual LearningLina Yang, Yusheng Liao, Yanfeng Wang, Yu Guang WangACL · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  5. 2026
    Alleviating Regional Shortcuts for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningHaichen Zhou, Lyu Y, Yixiong Zou … Yuhua LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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  6. 2026
    Can Spectral-Clipping Enable Better Learning While Forgetting Less for Low-Rank Adaptation?Hyowon Wi, Noseong ParkACL · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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  7. 2026
    Deep Continual Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Dagstuhl Seminar 25432)Christopher Kanan, Martin Mundt, Tinne Tuytelaars … Timm Felix HessDagstuhl reports · University of Rochester · University of Bremen · +2
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  8. 2026
    From Experts to Bases: Orthogonal Subspace Mixture for Continual Multimodal Instruction TuningPei Chen, Xilai Wang, Shiqixu … Lingyun SunACL · Zhejiang University
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  9. 2026
    Group-Merger: A LoRA-based Framework for Multilingual Continual LearningWeijian yi, Hongliang Li, Jinan XuWorkshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language… · Beijing Jiaotong University
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  10. 2026
    Harmonizing the Past, Present, and Future: A Null-Space Constrained Region-Specific Method for Continual Learning in LLMsJinhui Chen, Shizhu He, Xingchang Yang … Jun ZhaoACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  11. 2026
    Miles: Metric Learning With Expandable Subspace for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningKai Jiang, Zisong Lin, Hongyuan Zhang … Xuelong LiTIP · Xidian University · University of Hong Kong · +1
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  12. 2026
    Multi-Level Collaborative Distillation Meets Global Workspace Model: A Unified Framework for OCILShibin Su, Guoqiang Liang, De Cheng … Lingyan RanTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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  13. 2026
    Soft Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation for Knowledge Sharing in Large Language Model Continual LearningYitong Wang, Xue Han, Wenchun Gao … Junlan FengACL · Jiuquan Iron & Steel (China) · China Mobile (China) · +1
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  14. 2026
    The Dominance of Text Space: Unveiling the Asymmetric Nature of Cross-Modal Alignment in Large Language ModelsLinqing Chen, Hanmeng Zhong, Wentao Wu, Peng ZhouACL · Suzhou Research Institute
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  15. 2026
    Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Xiuyi Chen … Dong YuIEEE TAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Kyoto University · +2
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  16. 2026
    VFA: Empowering Multilingual MLLMs via Vision-Free AdaptationYixia Li, Yaqing Shi, Zhiwen Ruan … Furu WeiACL · Southern University of Science and Technology · Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · +3
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  19. 2025
    Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning ArchitecturesAli Behrouz, Meisam Razaviyayn, Peilin Zhong, Vahab MirrokniNeurIPS
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  20. 2025
    End-to-End Test-Time Training for Long ContextArnuv Tandon, Karan Dalal, Xinhao Li … Yu SunarXiv
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  21. 2026
    Lifelong Domain Adaptive 3D Human Pose EstimationQucheng Peng, Hongfei Xue, Pu Wang, Chen ChenAAAI
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  23. 2025
    The World Is Bigger! A Computationally-Embedded Perspective on the Big World HypothesisAlex Lewandowski, Adtiya A. Ramesh, Edan Meyer … Marlos C. MachadoNeurIPS
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  24. 2026
    YOLO-IOD: Towards Real Time Incremental Object DetectionShizhou Zhang, Xueqiang Lv, Yinghui Xing … Yanning zhangAAAI
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  26. 2025
    LibContinual: A Comprehensive Library towards Realistic Continual LearningWenbin Li, Shangge Liu, Borui Kang … Jiebo LuoarXiv
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    Mitigating Forgetting in Low Rank AdaptationJoanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Philipp Hennig, José Miguel Hernández-LobatoarXiv
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  33. 2025
    Adaptation of Agentic AIPengcheng Jiang, Jiacheng Lin, Shi, Zhiyi … Jiawei HanarXiv
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  34. 2025
    Navigating the Reality Gap: On-Device Continual Adaptation of ASR for Clinical TelephonyDarshil Chauhan, Adityasinh Solanki, Vansh Patel … Dhruv KumararXiv
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  36. 2025
    Sharing the Learned Knowledge-base to Estimate Convolutional Filter Parameters for Continual Image RestorationAupendu Kar, Krishnendu Ghosh, Prabir Kumar BiswasSixteen Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics an… · Dolby (Netherlands) · Dolby (United States) · +1
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  37. 2025
    Out-of-Distribution Detection for Continual Learning: Design Principles and BenchmarkingSrishti Gupta, Riccardo Balia, D. Angioni … B. BiggioarXiv
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  40. 2025
    Bridging Streaming Continual Learning via In-Context Large Tabular ModelsLourenço, Afonso, Gama, João, Xing, Eric P., Marreiros, GoretiAAAI
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  42. 2025
    Grow Up and Merge: Scaling Strategies for Efficient Language AdaptationKevin Glocker, Kätriin Kukk, Romina Oji … Kunz, JennyarXiv
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  44. 2025
    Unforgotten Safety: Preserving Safety Alignment of Large Language Models with Continual LearningLama Alssum, Hani Itani, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud … Bernard GhanemarXiv
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  48. 2025
    Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter MergingYadav, Yajat, Zhou, Zhiyuan, Wagenmaker, Andrew … Levine, SergeyarXiv
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  49. 2025
    Prompt-Based Continual Compositional Zero-Shot LearningSauda Maryam, Sara Nadeem, Faisal Z. Qureshi, Mohsen AliarXiv
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  50. 2025
    Heads collapse, features stay: Why Replay needs big buffersLanzillotta, Giulia, Meier, Damiano, Hofmann, ThomasICLR
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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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