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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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  1. 2026
    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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  2. 2026
    A negative-anchored self-relabeling strategy for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuNeurocomputing · Southeast University · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · +1
  3. 2026
    A Framework for Addressing Catastrophic Forgetting and Noisy Labeling in Continual LearningZhonghe Wei, X Q Li, Hongsheng Yin … Jihang YinInternational Conference on Computer Supported Cooperativ… · China University of Mining and Technology · Northwest University · +2
  4. 2026
    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  5. 2026
    Negative-weighted knowledge distillation regularized graph convolutional network for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuPattern Recognition · Southeast University · Institute of Automation · +1
  6. 2026
    Rep Deep & Machine Learning: Exemplar-Free Continual Video Action Recognition via Slow-Fast Collaborative LearningXueyi Zhang, Jianhua Zhang, Zheng Li … Huiping ZhuangAAAI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  7. 2026
    A Unified Knowledge Management Framework for Continual Learning and Machine Unlearning in Large Language ModelsJiaqi Lang, Linjing Li, Dajun ZengInformation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
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  8. 2026
    Continual learning of multiple cognitive functions with a brain-inspired temporal development mechanismBing Han, feifei Zhao, Yinqian Sun … Yi ZengNational Science Review · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Institute of Automation · +2
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  9. 2026
    CAKGE: Context-Aware Adaptive Learning for Dynamic Knowledge Graph EmbeddingsZongsheng Cao, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang … Qingming HuangTPAMI · ShangHai JiAi Genetics & IVF Institute · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · +3
  10. 2026
    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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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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