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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
    MCo2L: A unified framework for multimodal contrastive continual learning in audio-visual question answeringKunning Wu, Xinde Li, Xinde Li … Jin DengNeurocomputing · Southeast University · Northeastern University
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    Reward-Free Continual Adaptation for Resilient Space RobotsAndrej Orsula, Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Carol MartínezarXiv
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    Federated Continual Learning as a Distributed Drift-Plus-Penalty Control ProblemNazreen Shah, Naveen Kumar Reddy Somireddy, Zubair Shaban … B. N. BharatharXiv
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    TASSO: TAsk-Specific Subspace Optimization for Continual Learning of Vision-Language ModelsChang Sun, Francesco Barbato, Matteo Caligiuri, Pietro ZanuttigharXiv
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    An Inclusive and Lightweight Approach to Federated Continual Learning for Cultural HeritageIoannis Theologitis, Debin Meng, Stylianos Eleftheriadis … Konstantinos VotisarXiv
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    Forgetting, plasticity, and co-observation: a third facet of continual learningTimm Hess, Abhishek Jha, Gido M. van de Ven, Tinne TuytelaarsarXiv
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  14. 2026
    Harness Continual Learning: Continual Adaptation Beyond Model ParametersBorui Kang, Jinrui Gu, Junhan Lv … Yang GaoarXiv
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  15. 2026
    HiCPS: Hierarchical complementary prompt synergy for few-shot class-incremental learningQiang Huang, Shengli Wu, Shaohua Wan … Hu LuNeurocomputing · Jiangsu University · University of Ulster · +4
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    When to Review: Spaced Repetition for Continual Pre-Training of Language ModelsAlankar Atreya, Devesh Batra, Yoages Kumar Mantri … Raad KhraishiarXiv
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    Feedback-regulated dual-role memory consolidation for continual learning: a stability–plasticity framework inspired by hippocampo-cortical systems consolidationZhaojie Yu, Shengli Cao, Guohe Zhang, Peihua FengCognitive Neurodynamics · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications
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    Task-Anchored Representation Shaping for Pre-Trained Model-Based Continual LearningZhiming Xu, Huiyu Yi, Zhen-Hao Xie … Suorong YangarXiv
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  21. 2026
    Layers Matter: Why Continual Learning Regularization Should Be Layer-AdaptiveBrian B. Moser, Ahmed Anwar, Tobias Christian Nauen … Andreas DengelarXiv
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    Memory-Bounded Continuation of Greedy Sampling for Continual Anomaly DetectionYoon Gyo Jung, Jaewoo Park, Kuan–Chuan Peng … OCTAVIA CAMPSarXiv
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  23. 2026
    Compact feature distributions and refined pseudo labels for weakly supervised incremental semantic segmentationZilin Guo, Dongyue Wu, Changxin Gao, Nong SangPattern Recognition · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
  24. 2026
    CD-IMM: A Bayesian non-parametric classifier for continual learningDaniele Castellana, Antonio CartaNeurocomputing · University of Florence · University of Pisa · +1
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    SRANK: Towards Semantic-Aware Ranking-Based Evaluation for Continual Learning of Vision-Language ModelsSuvam Dey, Debarshi Brahma, Soma BiswasICIP · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
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    Sustaining Plasticity via Learnable Wavelet Activations in Continual LearningZeyang Zhang, Tieliang Gong, Junyan Lu, Weizhan ZhangarXiv
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    Task-Adaptive Sparse Update for Efficient Continual LearningTakuma Ishibashi, Hikari Otsuka, Junnosuke Suzuki … Masato MotomuraICIP · Institute of Science Tokyo
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    AWARe: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting via Activation-Weighted Adaptive REtentionJuncheng Liao, Jinfan Lv, Guoming Wang … Siliang TangarXiv
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    BPG: Balancing Plasticity and Generalization for Domain Incremental LearningQiang Wang, Songlin Dong, Shaokun Wang … Yihong GongarXiv
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    Quantum Incremental Learning with Mixed State PrototypesYu Wu, Qianli Zhou, Xinyang Deng … Witold PedryczarXiv
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    Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual LearningJiahong Liu, Ming Shen, Xiaohao Liu … Irwin KingICML
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    Continual learning for autoregressive PDE surrogates under evolving physical regimesHamed Hemati, Binh Duong Nguyen, Stefan SandfeldMachine learning for computational science and engineering · Forschungszentrum Jülich · RWTH Aachen University
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    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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    Brain-Inspired Synergistic-Memory Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJiale Chen, Feng Xu, Xin Lyu … Hao TangInformation Fusion · Hohai University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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    Continual-GraphLLM: Dynamic Graph Large Language Model with Invariance Regularized Adaptive Multi-Scale ExpertsTianhang Wan, Xin Wang, Haibo Chen … Wenwu ZhuKDD · Tsinghua University · Alibaba Group (China)
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    TTMC: Brain-Inspired Test-Time Memory Calibration with Orthogonal Projection for Online Continual LearningYuyang Han, Ziyu Li, Diwei Su … Xia WuKDD · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +1
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    PrePrompt: Predictive Prompting for Class Incremental LearningLibo Huang, Xiangqi Li, Jiarui Zhao … Yongjun XuKDD · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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    TRACE: Discovering Task-Specific Parameter via Adaptation-Aware Probing for Continual Fine-TuningXiaosong Han, Ke Chen, Xindi Dai … Renchu GuanKDD · Jilin University · Jilin Province Science and Technology Department · +3
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    Cognitive Bifurcation: Dual-Progressive Causal Diffusion with Hippocampal Memory for Continual Graph LearningJiahao Liang, Carl Yang, Haoran Yang … Kaixiang YangKDD · South China University of Technology · Emory University · +2
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    Collaborative Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Graph Domain Incremental LearningJialu Li, Yu Wang, Wanyu Lin, Pengfei ZhuKDD · Tianjin University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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    Continual Learning in TransitionZhiyan Hou, Dan Zhang, Tao Feng … Tat-Seng ChuaarXiv
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    FAT-TAG: Mitigating Forgetting in Task-Free Temporal Graph Class Incremental LearningJiyuan Feng, Zhao Liu, Dongyi Zheng … Qing LiaoKDD · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
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    FedFST: Mitigating Spectral Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Graph Continual LearningHanyao Guo, Zihan Tan, Wenke Huang … Mang YeKDD · Wuhan University · Nanyang Technological University
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    G2LoRA: Gradient Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation Framework for Graph Continual Learning on Text-Attributed GraphsYuhan Wang, Yibo Ding, Yutong Ye … Jianxin LiKDD · Beihang University · Columbia University · +1
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    Self-Regulating Prompt Expansion for Continual LearningYiwen Wang, Diana Benavides‐Prado, Yun Sing KohKDD · University of Auckland · Queen Mary University of London
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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