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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
    CIP-Net: Continual Interpretable Prototype-based NetworkDi Valerio, Federico, Proietti, Michela, Ragno, Alessio, Capobianco, RobertoAAAI
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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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  3. 2025
    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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  4. 2026
    Bring Your Dreams to Life: Continual Text-to-Video CustomizationJiahua Dong, Xudong Wang, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanAAAI
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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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    Continual Learning for Singing Voice Separation with Human in the Loop AdaptationAnkur Gupta, Anshul Rai, Bansal, Archit, Vipul AroraarXiv
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    Provably Safe Model UpdatesLeo Elmecker-Plakolm, Pierre Fasterling, Philip Sosnin … Matthew WickerarXiv
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  15. 2026
    Forget Less, Retain More: A Lightweight Regularizer for Rehearsal-Based Continual LearningLama Alssum, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Motasem Alfarra … Bernard GhanemTMLR
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  16. 2025
    Affordance-First Decomposition for Continual Learning in Video-Language UnderstandingMengzhu Xu, Hanzhi Liu, Ningkang Peng … Canran XiaoCVPR
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  17. 2026
    Dual prototypes for adaptive pre-trained model in class-incremental learningZhiming Xu, Zhiming Xu, Suorong Yang … Jian ZhaoNeural Networks · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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  18. 2025
    Memory-Integrated Reconfigurable Adapters: A Unified Framework for Settings with Multiple TasksSusmit Agrawal, K. Kher, Saksham Mittal … Vineeth N. BalasubramanianNeurIPS
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  22. 2025
    Learn by Reasoning: Analogical Weight Generation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJizhou Han, Chenhao Ding, Yuhang He … Yihong GongIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Shenzhen University · +2
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    SuRe: Surprise-Driven Prioritised Replay for Continual LLM LearningHugo Hazard, Zafeirios Fountas, Martin Benfeghoul … Haitham Bou-AmmararXiv
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  24. 2025
    Agentic Learner with Grow-and-Refine Multimodal Semantic MemoryWeihao Bo, Shan Zhang, Yanpeng Sun … Zechao LiarXiv
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    MoTiC: Momentum Tightness and Contrast for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZeyu He, Shuai Huang, Yuwu Lu, Ming ZhaoPattern Recognition · Guilin University of Electronic Technology · South China Normal University
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    Annotation-Free Class-Incremental LearningKuchibhotla, Hari Chandana, Ananth, K S, Balasubramanian, Vineeth NarXiv
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    Condensation-Concatenation Framework for Dynamic Graph Continual LearningTingxu Yan, Y. Adam YuanInternational Symposium on Computer Engineering and Intel… · Southwest University
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    InTAct: Interval-based Task Activation Consolidation for Continual LearningPatryk Krukowski, Jan Miksa, Peter A. van der Helm … Przemysław SpurekarXiv
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    REAL: Representation Enhanced Analytic Learning for Exemplar-free Class-incremental LearningRun He, Di Fang, Yizhu Chen … Huiping ZhuangKnowledge-Based Systems · South China University of Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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    Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with Dynamic Gradient GuidanceLi, Songze, Gao, Mingyu, Su, Tonghua … Wang, ZhongjieCVPR
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    Continual learning with a predictive coding based classifierSenhui Qiu, Saugat Bhattacharyya, Damien Coyle, Shirin DoraApplied Soft Computing · University of Ulster · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · +2
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    Parameter Importance-Driven Continual Learning for Foundation ModelsWang, Lingxiang, Zhang, Hainan, Zheng, ZhimingarXiv
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    Keeping Code-Aware LLMs Fresh: Full Refresh, In-Context Deltas, and Incremental Fine-TuningSharma, Pradeep Kumar, Puri, Ishaan, Singh, Mantinder Jit … Shrivastava, HritvikarXiv
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    WebCoach: Self-Evolving Web Agents with Cross-Session Memory GuidanceGenglin Liu, Shijie Geng, Sha Li … Tianyi LiuarXiv
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    Foundations of a Developmental Design Paradigm for Integrated Continual Learning, Deliberative Behavior, and ComprehensibilityZeki Doruk Erden, Boi FaltingsIEEE TETCI · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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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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