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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
    TRACER: Persistent Regularization for Robust Multimodal FinetuningHesam Asadollahzadeh, Feng Liu, Christopher Leckie, Sarah M. ErfaniarXiv
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    CLANE: Continual Learning of Actions on Neuromorphic Hardware from Event CamerasElvin Hajizada, Michael Neumeier, Edward Paxon Frady … Eyke HüllermeierarXiv
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    Janus-LoRA: A Balanced Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual LearningCheng Chen, Pengpeng Zeng, Yuyu Guo … Jingkuan SongICML
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    Self-Supervised Online Robot-Agnostic Traversability Estimation for Open-World EnvironmentsJulia Hindel, Simon Bultmann, Houman Masnavi … Abhinav ValadaarXiv
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    Energy-Structured Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual LearningLonghua Li, Lei Qi, Qi Tian, Xin GengICML
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    COVD: Continual Open-Vocabulary Object Detection with Novel Concept InjectionYupeng Zhang, Ruize Han, Yuzhong Feng … Liang WanarXiv
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    ICICLE: Expanding Retrieval with In-Context DocumentsYu-Chen Den, Yung-Yu Shih, Zhi Rui Tam … Eugene YangarXiv
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    The Future of Facts: Tracing the Factual Generation-Verification GapTim R. Davidson, Anja Surina, Caglar GulcehrearXiv
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    TAAM:Inductive Graph-Class Incremental Learning with Task-Aware Adaptive ModulationJingtao Liu, Xi ZhangInternational Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiag… · University of Science and Technology of China
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    Mechanistic origins of catastrophic forgetting: why RL preserves circuits better than SFT?Jeanmely Rojas Nunez, Viraj Sawant, Nathan Allen … Maheep ChaudharyarXiv
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    Dynamic Mixture of Latent Memories for Self-Evolving AgentsDianzhi Yu, Vireo Zhang, Hongru Wang … Irwin KingarXiv
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    SeqLoRA: Bilevel Orthogonal Adaptation for Continual Multi-Concept GenerationJavad Parsa, Enis Simsar, Amir Joudaki … André TeixeiraarXiv
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    Understanding Data Temporality Impact on Large Language Models Pre-trainingPilchen Hippolyte, Fabre Romain, Signe Talla Franck … Grave EdouardarXiv
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    Tunable MAGMAX: Preference-Aware Model Merging for Continual LearningKei Hiroshima, Kento Uchida, Shinichi ShirakawaICPR
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    Continual Segmentation under Joint NonstationarityPrashant Pandey, Himanshu Kumar, Devineni Sri Venkatraya Chowdary, Brejesh LallICML
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    Fine-Tuning Without Forgetting via Loss-Adaptive Learning RatesParjanya Prashant, Jiongli Zhu, Aldan Creo, Babak SalimiarXiv
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    Lifelong Learner: Discovering Versatile Neural Solvers for Vehicle Routing ProblemsShaodi Feng, Zhuoyi Lin, Jianan Zhou … Yew-Soon OngIEEE T-ITS · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +2
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    Learning When to AdaptAli Zindari, Xiaowen Jiang, Rotem Mulayoff, Sebastian U. SticharXiv
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    Stable Routing for Mixture-of-Experts in Class-Incremental LearningZirui Guo, Quan Cheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Lijun ZhangarXiv
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    Reasoning Portability: Guiding Continual Learning for MLLMs in the RLVR Era红秋 何, Yuyang Liu, Shuo Yang … Yonghong TianarXiv
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    MixSD: Mixed Contextual Self-Distillation for Knowledge InjectionJiarui Liu, Lechen Zhang, Yongjin Yang … Mona DiabarXiv
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    Randomized neural network with adaptive forward regularization for online task-free class incremental learningJunda Wang, Minghui Hu, Ning Li … Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanNeural Networks · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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    CLARE: Continual Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models via Autonomous Adapter Routing and ExpansionRalf Römer, Y Zhang, Yuming Li, Angela P. SchoelligRA-L · Technical University of Munich
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    Continual Learning of Domain-Invariant RepresentationsPascal Janetzky, Tobias Schlagenhauf, Stefan FeuerriegelICML
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    Shapley Neuron Values for Continual Learning: Which Neurons Matter Most?Mohammad Ali Vahedifar, Abhisek Ray, Qi ZhangICML
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    Sparse Autoencoders enable Robust and Interpretable Fine-tuning of CLIP modelsFabian Morelli, Arnas Uselis, Ankit Sonthalia, Seong Joon OharXiv
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    MeMo: Memory as a ModelRyan Wei Heng Quek, Sanghyuk Lee, Alfred Wei Lun Leong … Armando Solar-LezamaarXiv
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    Dynamic nested hierarchies: self-evolving machine learning architectures for lifelong learningAkbar Anbar Jafari, Cagri Ozcinar, Gholamreza AnbarjafariFrontiers · University of Tartu · Estonian Business School
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    ACE-LoRA: Adaptive Orthogonal Decoupling for Continual Image EditingYuehao Liu, Weijia Zhang, Xuanming Shang … Chao MaarXiv
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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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