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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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    Put the Space of LoRA Initialization to the Extreme to Preserve Pre-trained KnowledgePengwei Tang, Xiaolin Hu, Yong Liu … Debing ZhangAAAI · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Ministry of Education · +3
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    Decomposing the Neurons: Activation Sparsity via Mixture of Experts for Continual Test Time AdaptationRongyu Zhang, Aosong Cheng, Y. Luo … Yuan DuAAAI · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Peking University · +3
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  4. 2026
    BOFA: Bridge-Layer Orthogonal Low-Rank Fusion for CLIP-Based Class-Incremental LearningLan Li, Tao Hu, Da-Wei Zhou … De-Chuan ZhanAAAI · Nanjing University
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    MoETTA: Test-Time Adaptation Under Mixed Distribution Shifts with MoE-LayerNormXiao Fan, Jingyan Jiang, Zhaoru Chen … Zhi WangAAAI · University Town of Shenzhen · Shenzhen Technology University · +1
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    KSS-MoE: Knowledge Space Synergy Framework in Mixture of Experts for Continual Visual Instruction TuningLingyun Song, Ziyao Chen, Kang Pan … Xuequn ShangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · San Francisco Bay University · +1
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    Continual Out-of-Distribution Detection with Analytic Neural CollapseSaleh Momeni, Changnan Xiao, Bing Jie Darius LiuAAAI · University of Illinois Chicago
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    DeLo: Dual Decomposed Low-Rank Experts Collaboration for Continual Missing Modality LearningXiwei Liu, Yulong Li, Feilong Tang, Imran RazzakAAAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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    Grow-on-Demand: Sparse and Adaptive Expert Expansion for Continual Instruction TuningYing Zhang, Xingyue Guo, Yu Zhao … Xiaojie YuanAAAI · Nankai University · Tiangong University
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    Learning Adaptive and Expandable Mixture Model for Continual LearningFei Ye, yongcheng zhong, Qihe Liu … Shijie ZhouAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  13. 2026
    Online Cross-Modal Hashing with Expanding Label SpaceWentao Fan, Chao Zhang, Chunlin Chen, Huaxiong LiAAAI · Nanjing University
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    Rep Deep & Machine Learning: Exemplar-Free Continual Video Action Recognition via Slow-Fast Collaborative LearningXueyi Zhang, Jianhua Zhang, Zheng Li … Huiping ZhuangAAAI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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    Adversarial Perturbation Shield: Preventing Concept Bleed-through in Continual Learning of Personalized Generative ModelsZiwen Lan, Keisuke Maeda, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki HaseyamaAAAI · Hokkaido University
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  16. 2026
    Better Matching, Less Forgetting: A Quality-Guided Matcher for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Peng WangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Medrobotics (United States)
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    Composition-Incremental Learning for Compositional GeneralizationZhen Li, Yuwei Wu, Chenchen Jing … Yunde JiaAAAI · Beijing Institute of Technology · Zhejiang University of Technology · +2
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  19. 2026
    Decomposing Prompts, Composing Actions: A Multi-Granularity Prompting Approach for Incremental Action LearningXinyi Cheng, Chenghao Xu, Xi Wang … Yanhua YangAAAI · Xidian University
  20. 2026
    E-Logic Prompt: Unified Energy-Logic Framework for Continual Visual Question AnsweringJiayao Tan, Tianle Liu, Fuyuan Hu … Liang WanAAAI · State Administration of Cultural Heritage · Suzhou University of Science and Technology
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  21. 2026
    L2-LoRA: Improving Low-Rank Adaptation with Layer-Specific RegularizationXiang Zhang, Rui Xie, Siyuan ZhangAAAI · Peking University
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  22. 2026
    Learning a Fix and Explore Framework for Continuous Generalized Category DiscoveryChunming Li, Shidong Wang, Haofeng ZhangAAAI · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Newcastle University
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    Learning from imperfect data: incremental learning and Few-shot LearningYaoyao LiuAAAI · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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    Parameter Merging with Gradient-Guided Supermasks in Online Continual LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  26. 2026
    Time Series Class-Incremental Learning via Confidence-guided Mask Distillation and Prototype-guided Contrastive LearningYu Liu, Haoqin Yang, Jinping Sui … Qi JiaAAAI · Dalian University of Technology · United States Naval Academy · +1
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    Vision-language Incremental Learning with Dual Class-individual MemoryFuhai Chen, Feng Zhang, Xiaoguang Ma … Xuri GeAAAI · Fuzhou University · Universidad del Noreste · +2
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    Attention Retention for Continual Learning with Vision TransformersYue Lu, Xiangyu Zhou, Shizhou Zhang … Wencong ZhangAAAI
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    Forget Less by Learning from Parents Through Hierarchical RelationshipsArjun Ramesh Kaushik, Naresh Kumar Devulapally, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande … Venu GovindarajuAAAI
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    Lifelong Domain Adaptive 3D Human Pose EstimationQucheng Peng, Hongfei Xue, Pu Wang, Chen ChenAAAI
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    YOLO-IOD: Towards Real Time Incremental Object DetectionShizhou Zhang, Xueqiang Lv, Yinghui Xing … Yanning zhangAAAI
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  37. 2025
    Bridging Streaming Continual Learning via In-Context Large Tabular ModelsLourenço, Afonso, Gama, João, Xing, Eric P., Marreiros, GoretiAAAI
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    CIP-Net: Continual Interpretable Prototype-based NetworkDi Valerio, Federico, Proietti, Michela, Ragno, Alessio, Capobianco, RobertoAAAI
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    Bring Your Dreams to Life: Continual Text-to-Video CustomizationJiahua Dong, Xudong Wang, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanAAAI
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    Catastrophic Forgetting in Kolmogorov-Arnold NetworksMohammad Marufur Rahman, G. Wang, Kaixiong Zhou … Fan YangAAAI
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    Gene Incremental Learning for Single-Cell TranscriptomicsJiaxin Qi, Yan Cui, Jianqiang Huang, Gaogang XieAAAI
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    Data Heterogeneity and Forgotten Labels in Split Federated LearningJoana Tirana, Dimitra Tsigkari, David Noguéro, Nicolas KourtellisAAAI
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    HiCL: Hippocampal-Inspired Continual LearningK. Kapoor, Wyatt Mackey, Y. Aloimonos, Xiao-Sheng LinAAAI
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    Decoupling Continual Semantic SegmentationYifu Guo, Yu-Quan Lu, Wentao Zhang … Ruixuan WangAAAI
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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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