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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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    STAER: Temporal Aligned Rehearsal for Continual Spiking Neural NetworkMatteo Gianferrari, Omayma Moussadek, Riccardo Salami … Simone CalderaraICPR
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    MERGETUNE: Continued fine-tuning of vision-language modelsWenqing Wang, Da Li, Xiatian Zhu, Josef KittlerICLR
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    Dynamic Memory Updating in RAG: Lifelong Learning and AdaptationSivarama Krishna Akhil KoduriInternational Journal of Innovative Science and Research…
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    Ability Transfer and Recovery via Modularized Parameters LocalizationSongyao Jin, Kun Zhou, Wenqi Li … Biwei HuangarXiv
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    Beyond Transfer Accuracy: Mechanism-Guided Controlled Adaptation for Low-Resource LanguagesKhumaisa Nur'aini, Ayu Purwarianti, Alham Fikri Aji, Derry WijayaarXiv
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    Incremental Online Learning of Randomized Neural Network With Forward RegularizationJunda Wang, Minghui Hu, Ning Li … Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanTPAMI · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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    Key-Value Pair-Free Continual Learner via Task-Specific Prompt-PrototypeHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Zhengji Li … Fengyu CongNeural Networks · University of Jyväskylä · National University of Singapore · +3
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    LDTC: Lifelong deep temporal clustering for multivariate time seriesZhi Wang, Yanni Li, Pingping Zheng, Yiyuan JiaoarXiv
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    MemRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic MemoryShengtao Zhang, Jiaqian Wang, Ruiwen Zhou … Muning WenarXiv
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    Experimental demonstration of quantum continual learning with superconducting qubitsChuanyu Zhang, Zhide Lu, Liangtian Zhao … Chao Songnpj Quantum Information · Zhejiang University · ShangHai JiAi Genetics & IVF Institute · +7
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  24. 2026
    Lifelong Learning of Large Language Model Based Agents: A RoadmapJunhao Zheng, Chengming Shi, Xidi Cai … Qianli MaTPAMI · South China University of Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +2
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    ELLA: Efficient Lifelong Learning for Adapters in Large Language ModelsShristi Das Biswas, Yue Zhang, Anwesan Pal … Kaushik RoyEACL
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  27. 2026
    Forget Less by Learning Together through Concept ConsolidationArjun Ramesh Kaushik, Naresh Kumar Devulapally, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande … Venu GovindarajuWACV
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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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  29. 2026
    DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model With Self-Generated Cross-Modal AlignmentK C Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu‐Wei Fu … Hung-yi LeeIEEE Transactions · National Taiwan University · National Taipei University · +2
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    From Storage to Experience: A Survey on the Evolution of LLM Agent Memory MechanismsJinghao Luo, Yuchen Tian, Chuxue Cao … Jing MaACL · South China Normal University · Hong Kong Baptist University · +3
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    IAP: Improving Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Instance-Aware PromptingHao Fu, Hanbin Zhao, Jiahua Dong … Hui QianTIP · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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    Multi-Stage Knowledge Integration of Vision-Language Models for Continual LearningHongsheng Zhang, Zhong Ji, Jingren Liu … Jungong HanTIP · Tianjin University · Tsinghua University
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    COBRA: A Continual Learning Approach to Vision-Brain UnderstandingXuan-Bac Nguyen, Manuel Serna-Aguilera, Arabinda K. Choudhary … Ky LuuIJCV · University of Arkansas at Fayetteville · SUNY Upstate Medical University · +2
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    Generalizable and Adaptive Continual Learning Framework for AI-Generated Image DetectionHanyi Wang, Jun Lan, Yaoyu Kang … Shilin WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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    Constructing Enhanced Mutual Information for Online Class-Incremental LearningHuan Zhang, Fan Lyu, Shenghua Fan … Dingwen WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Wuhan University · Institute of Automation
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    CRISP: Contrastive Residual Injection and Semantic Prompting for Continual Video Instance SegmentationBaichen Liu, Qi Lyu, Xudong Wang … Zhi HanTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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    MECAD: A Multi-expert Architecture for Continual Anomaly DetectionMalihe Dahmardeh, Francesco SettiSpringer LNCS · University of Verona
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    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Language Adaptation of LLMs via Source-Shielded UpdatesAtsuki Yamaguchi, Terufumi Morishita, Aline Villavicencio, Νικόλαος ΑλέτραςACL · University of Sheffield · Hitachi (Japan)
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    PASs-MoE: Mitigating Misaligned Co-drift among Router and Experts via Pathway Activation Subspaces for Continual LearningZhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma … Jinqiao WangACL · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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    DesCLIP: Robust Continual Learning via General Attribute Descriptions for VLM-Based Visual RecognitionChiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hui LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Spectral Disentanglement: Rank-Aware Task Adaptation for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning in LLMsHuanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao … Kang LiuACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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    Towards Self-Evolving Agents: Enabling Autonomy through Interactive Experience RefinementCheng Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Licheng Wen … Haifeng LiACL · Central South University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
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    Evolutionary Strategies at Scale lead to Catastrophic ForgettingImmanuel Abdi, Akshat Gupta, Micah Mok … Gopala AnumanchipalliACL · Berkeley College · University of California, Berkeley
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    Reinforcement Learning with Semantic Rewards Enables Low-Resource Language Expansion without Alignment TaxZeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Zhou Liu … Wentao ZhangACL · Minzu University of China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · +4
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    SLoRA: Balancing Plasticity and Forgetting in Large Language Models for Continual LearningLina Yang, Yusheng Liao, Yanfeng Wang, Yu Guang WangACL · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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    Alleviating Regional Shortcuts for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningHaichen Zhou, Lyu Y, Yixiong Zou … Yuhua LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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    Can Spectral-Clipping Enable Better Learning While Forgetting Less for Low-Rank Adaptation?Hyowon Wi, Noseong ParkACL · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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    Deep Continual Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Dagstuhl Seminar 25432)Christopher Kanan, Martin Mundt, Tinne Tuytelaars … Timm Felix HessDagstuhl reports · University of Rochester · University of Bremen · +2
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    From Experts to Bases: Orthogonal Subspace Mixture for Continual Multimodal Instruction TuningPei Chen, Xilai Wang, Shiqixu … Lingyun SunACL · Zhejiang University
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    Group-Merger: A LoRA-based Framework for Multilingual Continual LearningWeijian yi, Hongliang Li, Jinan XuWorkshop on Multilinguality in the Era of Large Language… · Beijing Jiaotong University
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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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