Related work

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
    Task-Anchored Representation Shaping for Pre-Trained Model-Based Continual LearningZhiming Xu, Huiyu Yi, Zhen-Hao Xie … Suorong YangarXiv
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    Layers Matter: Why Continual Learning Regularization Should Be Layer-AdaptiveBrian B. Moser, Ahmed Anwar, Tobias Christian Nauen … Andreas DengelarXiv
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    Memory-Bounded Continuation of Greedy Sampling for Continual Anomaly DetectionYoon Gyo Jung, Jaewoo Park, Kuan–Chuan Peng … OCTAVIA CAMPSarXiv
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    Sustaining Plasticity via Learnable Wavelet Activations in Continual LearningZeyang Zhang, Tieliang Gong, Junyan Lu, Weizhan ZhangarXiv
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    AWARe: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting via Activation-Weighted Adaptive REtentionJuncheng Liao, Jinfan Lv, Guoming Wang … Siliang TangarXiv
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    BPG: Balancing Plasticity and Generalization for Domain Incremental LearningQiang Wang, Songlin Dong, Shaokun Wang … Yihong GongarXiv
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    Quantum Incremental Learning with Mixed State PrototypesYu Wu, Qianli Zhou, Xinyang Deng … Witold PedryczarXiv
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    Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual LearningJiahong Liu, Ming Shen, Xiaohao Liu … Irwin KingICML
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    MEMTS: Internalizing Domain Knowledge via Parameterized Memory for Retrieval-Free Domain Adaptation of Time Series Foundation ModelsXiaoyun Yu, Li Fan, Xiangfei Qiu … Jilin HuKDD · East China Normal University · Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine · +3
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    PrePrompt: Predictive Prompting for Class Incremental LearningLibo Huang, Xiangqi Li, Jiarui Zhao … Yongjun XuKDD · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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    TRACE: Discovering Task-Specific Parameter via Adaptation-Aware Probing for Continual Fine-TuningXiaosong Han, Ke Chen, Xindi Dai … Renchu GuanKDD · Jilin University · Jilin Province Science and Technology Department · +3
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    Continual Learning in TransitionZhiyan Hou, Dan Zhang, Tao Feng … Tat-Seng ChuaarXiv
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    G2LoRA: Gradient Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation Framework for Graph Continual Learning on Text-Attributed GraphsYuhan Wang, Yibo Ding, Yutong Ye … Jianxin LiKDD · Beihang University · Columbia University · +1
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    An active-learning framework for real-time depth perception from monocular vision streamsXiaorong Zeng, Weiqiang Chen, Peng Shi … Shuiwen ShenarXiv
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    NeuMoSync: End‑to‑End Neuromodulatory Control for Plasticity and Adaptability in Continual LearningSeyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung … Mo ChenTMLR
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    Field-Aware Agent Skill RetrievalPaimon Goulart, Liang Wu, Kelly Wan … Liangjie HongarXiv
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    Learning What to Remember: Test-Time Training via Context DistillationZixuan Wang, Xingyu Dang, Rui-Jie Zhu … Jason D. LeearXiv
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    Dream2Learn: Structured Generative Dreaming for Continual LearningSalvatore Calcagno, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri … Giovanni BellittoIJCV · University of Catania
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  28. 2026
    Relative Parameter Importance in Task-Agnostic Replay-Free Continual LearningMalavika Suresh, Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji, Nirmalie WiratungaarXiv
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    The Grokked Illusion: True Equilibrium Mitigates Catastrophic ForgettingXiaotian Zhang, Lai Shun Chan, Yue Shang … Ge ZhangarXiv
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    FSE: Continual learning for named entity recognition by fast-slow expertsYunan Zhang, Yang Fan, Heng Li … Qingcai ChenPattern Recognition Letters
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    MemSFT: Mitigating Alignment Tax with an External Parametric MemoryJiarui Wang, Xiang Shi, Jiaqi Cao … Zhouhan LinarXiv
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    Metaplasticity as adaptive gradient preconditioning for incremental learningIsabelle Aguilar, Zayn Andre Zainal, Omid KaveheiarXiv
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    In Situ Training of Implicit Neural Compressors for Scientific Simulations via Sketch-Based RegularizationCooper Simpson, Stephen Becker, Alireza DoostanJournal of Computational Physics · University of Colorado Boulder · University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory · +2
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    Latent-LoRA: Compact Latent-Space Adapters with Gradient-Free Routing for Continual LearningReza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Giulia Pedrielli … Hassan GhasemzadeharXiv
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    Spectral-Aware Analytic Class-Incremental Learning for Long-Tailed DistributionsQ. Tran, Ngoc-Hai Nguyen, Quan Dao … Dimitris N. MetaxasarXiv
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    Adaptive Multi-Horizon Reinforcement LearningManoosh Samiei, Doina Precup, Paul MassetarXiv
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    Continual Video-MLLM Adaptation over Evolving DomainsRui Cheng, Meixing Shi, Yuxiang Cai … Zhi X. ChenarXiv
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    TypiCore: A Hybrid Active Query Strategy for Class-Incremental Learning on Time SeriesG. Szücs, Samuel Jacsev, Marcell Németh … Gian Antonio SustoarXiv
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    TypiCore: A Hybrid Active Query Strategy for Class-Incremental Learning on Time SeriesGábor Szűcs, Sámuel Jacsev, Marcell Németh … Gian Antonio SustoarXiv · Budapest University of Technology and Economics · University of Padua
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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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