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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
    A scalable complexity-regularized modular network for continual learningZiye Fang, Bo Wan, Shangqi Guo, Jian K. LiuNeurocomputing · Xidian University · Human Computer Interaction (Switzerland) · +2
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 2026
    CD-IMM: A Bayesian non-parametric classifier for continual learningDaniele Castellana, Antonio CartaNeurocomputing · University of Florence · University of Pisa · +1
  5. 2026
    Parameter-Efficient Continual Fine-Tuning: A SurveyE N Coleman, Luigi Quarantiello, Ziyue Liu … Vincenzo LomonacoNeurocomputing · University of Pisa · Politecnico di Torino · +4
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    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
  8. 2026
    Towards self-adaptive learning: A comprehensive survey on continual learning under harsh conditionsRoozbeh Razavi‐Far, Ehsan Hallaji, Alireza Fathalizadeh … Mohammad RostamiNeurocomputing · University of New Brunswick · University of Southern California
  9. 2026
    G-Scaler: Graph few-shot class-incremental learning via structural coupling and elegant shift rectificationBin Wang, Boxiang Tao, Hongbo Dou … Lin LuoNeurocomputing · China University of Petroleum, East China
  10. 2026
    OCL-SKD: Balancing plasticity and stability in online continual learning via self-knowledge distillationZheng Liu, Zhanyang Liu, Yike Liu … Jinfeng LiuNeurocomputing · Ningxia University · Beihang University · +1
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  12. 2026
    WAVE++: Capturing within-task variance for continual relation extraction with adaptive promptingBao-Ngoc Dao, Minh Le, Quang Nguyen … Linh Ngo VanNeurocomputing · Hanoi University of Science and Technology
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  13. 2026
    A practical guide to streaming continual learningAndrea Cossu, Federico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer … Davide BacciuNeurocomputing · University of Pisa · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa · +6
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  14. 2026
    Task-adaptive continual learning of vision language models via prototype routing and promptLei Pan, Zhipeng Lu, Yuan Zheng … Chang XuNeurocomputing · Civil Aviation Administration of China · Chinese Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology · +3
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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