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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
    World Action Models Enable Continual Imitation Learning with Recurrent Generative ReplaysManish Kumar Govind, Dominick Reilly, Smit Patel … S R DasarXiv
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    Continual Robot Policy Learning via Variational Neural DynamicsJiaxu Xing, Zhiyuan Zhu, Yunfan Ren … Davide ScaramuzzaarXiv
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    DeCoFlow: Structural Decomposition of Normalizing Flows for Continual Anomaly DetectionHun Im, Jungi Lee, Subeen Cha, Pilsung KangarXiv · Seoul National University
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    Can Scale Save Us From Plasticity Loss in Large Language Models?J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia, Tomas Figliolia, Beren MillidgearXiv
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    Curvature-Guided Mixing for MLLM AdaptationJinglong Yang, Jiaxuan He, Wenjian Huang … Jian-Guo ZhangarXiv
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    The Gentle Collapse: Distributional Metrics for Continual LearningAhmed Anwar, Andreas Wagner, Federico Raue … Andreas DengelarXiv
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    Attention-Spectrum Regularization for Replay-Free Continual Multimodal LLMsChuangxin Zhao, Canran Xiao, Siyuan Ma … Yang LiuarXiv
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    Black-Box Continual Learning for Vision-Language ModelsYuting Li, Weihang Fang, He Gao … W E I-Xing HuangarXiv
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    Fast and Slow Variational Continual LearningSubarnaduti Paul, Yohan Jung, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan … Martin MundtarXiv
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    Is Our Benchmark Enough? An Analysis of Continual Learning for MLLMsVan-Tuan Tran, Shruthi Gowda, Merim Dzaferagic, Marco RuffiniarXiv
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    LOKI: Memory-Free Null-Space Constrained Lifelong Knowledge EditingMasih Eskandar, Miquel Sirera Perelló, Stratis Ioannidis, Jennifer DyarXiv
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    Continual Self-Improvement with Lightweight Experiential Latent MemoriesVaggelis Dorovatas, Nancy Kalaj, Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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    Dimensionality Controls When Modularity Helps in Continual LearningKathrin Korte, C. Adriano, Joachim Winther Pedersen … Sebastian RisiarXiv
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    Keep the General, Inject the Specific: Structured Dialogue Fine-Tuning for Knowledge Injection without Catastrophic ForgettingYijie Hong, Xiaofei Yin, Xinzhong Wang … Sufeng Duan2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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    Learning continually with representational driftSuzanne van der Veldt, Gido M. van de Ven, Sanne Moorman, Guillaume EtterTrends Open
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    KeepLoRA++: Continual Learning with Layer-Scaled Residual Gradient AdaptationMao-Lin Luo, Yi-Lin Zhang, Zi-Hao Zhou … Min-Ling ZhangarXiv
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    Retrievable Gradients: Continual Post-Training Without Cumulative Weight DriftWeihang Su, Jiacheng Kang, Jingyan Xu … Yiqun LiuarXiv
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    HERO: A Heterogeneity-Aware Benchmark Library for Federated Continual LearningThinh T. H. Nguyen, Le-Tuan Nguyen, Minh-Duong Nguyen … Kok-Seng WongarXiv
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    LatentGym: A Testbed For Cross-Task Experiential Learning With Controllable Latent StructureDaksh Mittal, Tommaso Castellani, Thomson Yen … Hongseok NamkoongarXiv
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    SGFormer++: Semantic Graph Transformer for Incremental 3D Scene Graph GenerationMengshi Qi, Changsheng Lv, Zijian Fu … Huadong MaarXiv
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    Attention-based Experience Replay Framework for Continual Learning of Agnostic Time Series Forecasting ModelsQuentin Besnard, Nicolas RagotarXiv · Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India
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    Decoupled Mixture-of-Experts for Parametric Knowledge InjectionBao Yue, Weihang Su, Qingyao Ai … Yiqun LiuarXiv
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    GRASP: Gradient-Aligned Sequential Parameter Transfer for Memory-Efficient Multi-Source LearningMary Isabelle Wisell, Nicholas Jacobs, Aayush Manandhar, Salimeh Yasaei SekehICPR
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    Learning to Hear Hesitation: Continual Learning for Disfluency-Aware ASRHenri-Leon Kordt, Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan WermterarXiv
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    MoDiCoL: A Modular Diagnostic Continual Learning Dataset for Robust Speech RecognitionTheresa Pekarek-Rosin, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan WermterarXiv
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    MoDiCoL: A Modular Diagnostic Continual Learning Dataset for Robust Speech RecognitionTheresa Pekarek Rosin, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan WermterarXiv · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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    ECA: Efficient Continual Alignment for Open-Ended Image-to-Text GenerationJiangtao Kong, Peijun Zhao, Chun-Fu Chen … Huajie ShaoICML
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    Amnesia: A Stealthy Replay Attack on Continual Learning DreamsAhmed Sharshar, Naveen Kumar Kummari, Mohsen GuizaniTMLR
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    TaskFusion: Continual Anomaly Detection for Heterogeneous Tabular DataDayananda Herurkar, Federico Raue, Joachim Folz … Andreas DengelarXiv
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    FOGO: Forgetting-aware Orthogonalization OptimizerToan Nguyen, Yang Liu (4829), Trung Le … Flora D. SalimarXiv
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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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