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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
    Parameter-Efficient Continual Fine-Tuning: A SurveyE N Coleman, Luigi Quarantiello, Ziyue Liu … Vincenzo LomonacoNeurocomputing · University of Pisa · Politecnico di Torino · +4
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  3. 2026
    WAVE++: Capturing within-task variance for continual relation extraction with adaptive promptingBao-Ngoc Dao, Minh Le, Quang Nguyen … Linh Ngo VanNeurocomputing · Hanoi University of Science and Technology
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  4. 2026
    A practical guide to streaming continual learningAndrea Cossu, Federico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer … Davide BacciuNeurocomputing · University of Pisa · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa · +6
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  5. 2025
    Continually Learn to Map Visual Concepts to Large Language Models in Resource-constrained EnvironmentsClea Rebillard, Julio Hurtado, Andrii Krutsylo … Vincenzo LomonacoNeurocomputing · Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux · University of Warwick · +3
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  6. 2025
    Federated Continual Learning: Concepts, Challenges, and SolutionsParisa Hamedi, Roozbeh Razavi‐Far, Ehsan HallajiNeurocomputing · University of New Brunswick · University of Windsor
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  7. 2025
    Adapt & Align: Continual Learning with Generative Models Latent Space AlignmentKamil Rafał Deja, Bartosz Cywiński, Jan Rybarczyk, T. P. TrzcinskiNeurocomputing · Warsaw University of Technology · IDEA of Development Foundation · +1
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  8. 2025
    Continual-MEGA: A Large-scale Benchmark for Generalizable Continual Anomaly DetectionGeonu Lee, Yujeong Oh, Geonhui Jang … Y. YooNeurocomputing
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  9. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning with probability dampening and cascaded gated classifierJary Pomponi, Alessio Devoto, Simone ScardapaneNeurocomputing · Sapienza University of Rome
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  10. 2025
    Minion Gated Recurrent Unit for Continual LearningAbdullah M. Zyarah, D. KudithipudiNeurocomputing
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  11. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Task-Specific Batch Normalization and Out-of-Distribution DetectionZhou, Zhiping, Xuchen Xie, Yiqiao Qiu … Ruixuan WangNeurocomputing
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  12. 2024
    Feature Expansion and enhanced Compression for Class Incremental LearningQuentin Ferdinand, Gilles Le Chenadec, Benoı̂t Clément … Quentin OliveauNeurocomputing · École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées Bretagne · Green Cross International · +2
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  14. 2023
    AdaER: An Adaptive Experience Replay Approach for Continual Lifelong LearningXingyu Li, Bo Tang, Haifeng LiNeurocomputing · Tulane University · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · +1
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  15. 2019
    Spiking Neural Predictive Coding for Continual Learning from Data StreamsAlexander G. OrorbiaNeurocomputing · Rochester Institute of Technology
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  16. 2023
    Projected Latent Distillation for Data-Agnostic Consolidation in Distributed Continual LearningAntonio Carta, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo Lomonaco … Joost van de WeijerNeurocomputing
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  17. 2021
    Online Continual Learning in Image Classification: An Empirical SurveyZheda Mai, Ruiwen Li, Jihwan Jeong … Scott SannerNeurocomputing · University of New Brunswick · University of Toronto · +1
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  18. 2021
    SpaceNet: Make Free Space For Continual LearningGhada Sokar, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Mykola PechenizkiyNeurocomputing · Eindhoven University of Technology · University of Twente
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  19. 2020
    Pseudo-Rehearsal: Achieving Deep Reinforcement Learning without Catastrophic ForgettingCraig Atkinson, Brendan McCane, Lech Szymanski, Anthony RobinsNeurocomputing · University of Otago
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  20. 2017
    Lifelong Generative ModelingJason Ramapuram, Magda Gregorová, Alexandros KalousisNeurocomputing · University of Geneva · HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
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  21. 2020
    Efficient Continual Learning in Neural Networks with Embedding RegularizationJary Pomponi, Simone Scardapane, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Aurelio UnciniNeurocomputing · Sapienza University of Rome · University of Bologna
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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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