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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. 2025
    SPARC: Subspace-Aware Prompt Adaptation for Robust Continual Learning in LLMsDinithi Jayasuriya, Sina Tayebati, Davide Ettori … Amit Ranjan TrivediIJCNN · University of Illinois Chicago · Intel (United States)
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  2. 2025
    Evaluating Temporal Plasticity in Foundation Time Series Models for Incremental Fine-TuningJia Jia Liu, Cheng Jinguo, Fang Xia … Yuankai WuIJCNN · Sichuan University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
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  3. 2025
    Remembering Transformer for Continual LearningYuwei Sun, Ippei Fujisawa, Arthur Juliani … Ryota KanaiIJCNN · Konya Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi · Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) · +1
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  4. 2025
    TinyCL: An Efficient Hardware Architecture for Continual Learning on Autonomous SystemsEugenio Ressa, Alberto Marchisio, Maurizio Martina … Muhammad ShafiqueIJCNN · Politecnico di Torino · New York University Abu Dhabi
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  5. 2025
    GenCNER: A Generative Framework for Continual Named Entity RecognitionYawen Yang, Fukun Ma, Shiao Meng … Lijie WenIJCNN · Tsinghua University
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  6. 2025
    On Sequential Maximum a Posteriori Inference for Continual LearningMenghao Waiyan William Zhu, Erçan E. KuruoğluIJCNN · Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute
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  7. 2024
    Adiabatic replay for continual learningAlexander Krawczyk, Alexander GepperthIJCNN · Fulda University of Applied Sciences
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  8. 2024
    A Self-Organizing Clustering System for Unsupervised Distribution Shift DetectionSebastián Basterrech, Line Katrine Harder Clemmensen, Gerardo RubinoIJCNN · Technical University of Denmark · Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique · +1
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  9. 2024
    One-Shot Domain Incremental LearningYasushi Esaki, Satoshi Koide, Takuro KutsunaIJCNN · Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories (Japan)
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  10. 2024
    Adversarially Diversified Rehearsal Memory (ADRM): Mitigating Memory Overfitting Challenge in Continual LearningHikmat Khan, Ghulam Rasool, Nidhal BouaynayaIJCNN · Rowan University · Moffitt Cancer Center
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  11. 2024
    Continual Learning for Temporal-Sensitive Question AnsweringWanqi Yang, Yunqiu Xu, Yanda Li … Ling ChenIJCNN · University of Technology Sydney · The University of Sydney · +1
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  12. 2024
    MGSER-SAM: Memory-Guided Soft Experience Replay with Sharpness-Aware Optimization for Enhanced Continual LearningXingyu Li, Bo TangIJCNN · Tulane University · Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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  13. 2023
    Continual Learning with Pretrained Backbones by Tuning in the Input SpaceSimone Marullo, Matteo Tiezzi, Marco Gori … Tinne TuytelaarsIJCNN · University of Siena · University of Florence · +1
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  14. 2022
    Sample Condensation in Online Continual LearningMattia Sangermano, Antonio Carta, Andrea Cossu, Davide BacciuIJCNN · University of Pisa · Scuola Normale Superiore
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  15. 2022
    Continual Horizontal Federated Learning for Heterogeneous DataJunki Mori, Isamu Teranishi, Ryo FurukawaIJCNN · NEC (Japan)
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  16. 2022
    Ego-graph Replay based Continual Learning for Misinformation Engagement PredictionHongbo Bo, Ryan McConville, Jun Hong, Weiru LiuIJCNN · University of Bristol · University of the West of England
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  17. 2022
    A Study of Continual Learning Methods for Q-LearningBenedikt Bagus, Alexander GepperthIJCNN · Fulda University of Applied Sciences
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  18. 2022
    Incremental Learning with Differentiable Architecture and Forgetting SearchJames Seale Smith, Zachary Seymour, Han-Pang ChiuIJCNN · Georgia Institute of Technology · SRI International
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  19. 2022
    RVAE-LAMOL: Residual Variational Autoencoder to Enhance Lifelong Language LearningHan Wang, Ruiliu Fu, Xuejun Zhang, Jun ZhouIJCNN · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Acoustics · +1
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  21. 2022
    Self-distilled Knowledge Delegator for Exemplar-free Class Incremental LearningFanfan Ye, Liang Ma, Qiaoyong Zhong … Shiliang PuIJCNN
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  22. 2022
    Dynamic Template Selection Through Change Detection for Adaptive Siamese TrackingMadhu Kiran, Le Thanh Nguyen-Meidine, Rajat Sahay … Éric GrangerIJCNN · Vellore Institute of Technology University · Genetec (Canada)
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  23. 2022
    Smaller is Better: An Analysis of Instance Quantity/Quality Trade-off in Rehearsal-based Continual LearningFrancesco Pelosin, Andrea TorselloIJCNN · Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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  24. 2022
    Incremental Attractor Neural Network Modelling of the Lifespan Retrieval CurvePatrícia Pereira, Anders Lansner, Pawel HermanIJCNN · Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento · University of Lisbon · +2
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  25. 2021
    Memory-Efficient Semi-Supervised Continual Learning: The World is its Own Replay BufferJames Smith, Jonathan Balloch, Yen-Chang Hsu, Zsolt KiraIJCNN · Georgia Institute of Technology · Samsung (United States)
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  26. 2021
    Condensed Composite Memory Continual LearningFelix Wiewel, Bin YangIJCNN · University of Stuttgart
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  27. 2021
    Generative Feature Replay with Orthogonal Weight Modification for Continual LearningGehui Shen, Song Zhang, Xiang Chen, Zhihong DengIJCNN · Peking University
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  28. 2021
    Bilevel Continual LearningAmmar Shaker, Francesco Alesiani, Shujian Yu, Wenzhe YinIJCNN · Heidelberg University
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  29. 2020
    Forget Me Not: Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting for Domain Adaptation in Reading ComprehensionYing Xu, Xu Zhong, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Jey Han LauIJCNN · IBM Research - Australia · The University of Melbourne
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  30. 2020
    OvA-INN: Continual Learning with Invertible Neural NetworksGuillaume Hocquet, Olivier Bichler, Damien QuerliozIJCNN · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies · +2
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  31. 1991
    Incremental learning with rule-based neural networksCharles M. Higgins, R.M. GoodmanIJCNN · California Institute of Technology
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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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