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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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    The AI Hippocampus: How Far are We From Human Memory?Zixia Jia, Jiaqi Li, Yipeng Kang … Song-Chun ZhuTMLR
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    Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning ArchitecturesAli Behrouz, Meisam Razaviyayn, Peilin Zhong, Vahab MirrokniNeurIPS
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    End-to-End Test-Time Training for Long ContextArnuv Tandon, Karan Dalal, Xinhao Li … Yu SunarXiv
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    HMEN: A hybrid modular network with dynamic expansion for continual learningZiye Fang, Bo Wan, Shangqi Guo, Jian K. LiuKnowledge-Based Systems · Xidian University · Human Computer Interaction (Switzerland) · +2
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    The World Is Bigger! A Computationally-Embedded Perspective on the Big World HypothesisAlex Lewandowski, Adtiya A. Ramesh, Edan Meyer … Marlos C. MachadoNeurIPS
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    LibContinual: A Comprehensive Library towards Realistic Continual LearningWenbin Li, Shangge Liu, Borui Kang … Jiebo LuoarXiv
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    EdgeTail: Mitigating Long-Tail Visual Problems in Continual Learning at EdgeYuzhong Ouyang, Xiaoning Wu, Menglin Yang … Ying GuoACM Trans. Internet Things
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    Mitigating Forgetting in Low Rank AdaptationJoanna Sliwa, Frank Schneider, Philipp Hennig, José Miguel Hernández-LobatoarXiv
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    CGDRL: Continual Gait Distillation Reinforcement LearningZonghao Zhang, Peng Zhai, Hu Zhou … Li-Hua ZhangInternational Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualiza…
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    Knowledge Consolidation via Balanced Coreset Construction in Continual LearningTung Anh Tran, Danilo Vasconcellos VargasInternational Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intel… · Kyushu University
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    Adaptation of Agentic AIPengcheng Jiang, Jiacheng Lin, Shi, Zhiyi … Jiawei HanarXiv
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    THMM-CLIP: Task-Guided Hierarchical Multi-Modal Alignment for Rehearsal-Free Class Incremental LearningYingdong Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Changsheng XuACM Transactions · Southwest Jiaotong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · +2
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    A study on data-free knowledge distillation for non-IID problems in federated continual learningJiahao Yang, Xilong Wang, Weili Wu, Tianlong HuoEighth International Conference on Artificial Intelligenc… · Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications · Institute of Computing Technology
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    Navigating the Reality Gap: On-Device Continual Adaptation of ASR for Clinical TelephonyDarshil Chauhan, Adityasinh Solanki, Vansh Patel … Dhruv KumararXiv
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    Contextual Memory Recall: A Novel Metric for Class Incremental LearningS. Balasubramanian, Sai Subramaniam M, Talasu Sai Sriram … Ravi MukkamalaSixteen Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics an… · Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning · Old Dominion University
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    Sharing the Learned Knowledge-base to Estimate Convolutional Filter Parameters for Continual Image RestorationAupendu Kar, Krishnendu Ghosh, Prabir Kumar BiswasSixteen Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics an… · Dolby (Netherlands) · Dolby (United States) · +1
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    Temporal Boosting for Incremental Tree-based Learning on Tabular DataRahul Gupta, P. Pote, Bhanupriya Pegu … C. MerzACM IKDD Conference on Data Science
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    Out-of-Distribution Detection for Continual Learning: Design Principles and BenchmarkingSrishti Gupta, Riccardo Balia, D. Angioni … B. BiggioarXiv
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    Bridging Streaming Continual Learning via In-Context Large Tabular ModelsLourenço, Afonso, Gama, João, Xing, Eric P., Marreiros, GoretiAAAI
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    Adaptive Store-and-Recall Memory for Domain Continual LearningShutian Zhang, Chang Li, Guoren WangInternational Conference on Big Data and Data Mining (BDDM) · Beijing Institute of Technology
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    Grow Up and Merge: Scaling Strategies for Efficient Language AdaptationKevin Glocker, Kätriin Kukk, Romina Oji … Kunz, JennyarXiv
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    Prompt-Driven Bit Extension Hashing for Continual Cross-Modal RetrievalWenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li … Lei ZhuIEEE TCSVT · Shandong Normal University · Tongji University · +2
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    Unforgotten Safety: Preserving Safety Alignment of Large Language Models with Continual LearningLama Alssum, Hani Itani, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud … Bernard GhanemarXiv
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    Robust Finetuning of Vision-Language-Action Robot Policies via Parameter MergingYadav, Yajat, Zhou, Zhiyuan, Wagenmaker, Andrew … Levine, SergeyarXiv
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    Prompt-Based Continual Compositional Zero-Shot LearningSauda Maryam, Sara Nadeem, Faisal Z. Qureshi, Mohsen AliarXiv
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    Unsupervised Lifelong Person Re-Identification via Affinity HarmonizationJican Tan, Jin-Jia Peng, Songyu Zhang … Huibing WangACM Trans. Multim. Comput. Commun. Appl.
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    Federated Continual Learning Using Concept MatchingXiaopeng Jiang, Pritam Sen, Cristian BorceaIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · Southern Illinois University Carbondale · New Jersey Institute of Technology
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    Heads collapse, features stay: Why Replay needs big buffersLanzillotta, Giulia, Meier, Damiano, Hofmann, ThomasICLR
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    DART: Device-Native Adaptive Real-Time Training for Lifelong Learning on IoT BoardsShamil Al-Ameen, B. Sudharsan, Osamah Alzacko … Rajiv RanjanBigData Congress [Services Society]
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    PPSEBM: An Energy-Based Model with Progressive Parameter Selection for Continual LearningXiaodi Li, Dingcheng Li, Rujun Gao … Latifur KhanIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · Mayo Clinic in Florida · Google (United States) · +2
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    Task-Aware Multi-Expert Architectures for Lifelong Deep LearningJianyu Wang, Jacob Nean-Hua Sheikh, Cat P. Le, Hoda BidkhoriWinter Simulation Conference (WSC) · George Mason University · Duke University
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    FedART: Enhancing Replay in Federated Incremental LearningZijiang Tan, Haodi Wang, Libin Jiao, Rongfang BieACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Beijing Normal University · City University of Hong Kong · +1
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    Uni-IL: Unified Incremental Learning of Vision-Language Models via Mixture of Attribute-Guided ExpertsFanyu Meng, Yufeng Zhan, Jie Zhang … Yuanqing XiaACM International Conference on Multimedia in Asia · Beijing Institute of Technology · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · +1
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    On the Dangers of Bootstrapping Generation for Continual Learning and BeyondDaniil Zverev, A. Sophia Koepke, João F. HenriquesDAGM GCPR
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    MemVerse: Multimodal Memory for Lifelong Learning AgentsLiu, Junming, Yifei Sun, Cheng, Weihua … Ding WangarXiv
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    AWF: Adaptive Weight Fusion for Enhanced Class Incremental Semantic SegmentationZechao Sun, Shuying Piao, Haolin Jin … Luping ZhouInternational Conference on Digital Image Computing: Tech… · The University of Adelaide · The University of Sydney
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    Remembrance of Tasks Past in Tunable Physical NetworksPurba Chatterjee, Marcelo Guzman, Andrea J. LiuarXiv
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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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