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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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    FedGRAIL: Trustworthy and Efficient Federated Class-Incremental Learning for Long-Tailed IoT Edge IntelligenceXinrong Gong, Zibin Ke, Dan Dai … Kaixiang YangIEEE Internet of Things Journal
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    Leveraging Textual Semantic Guidance for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYuqiao Xu, Hantao Yao, Lu Yu, Changsheng XuACM Transactions · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +1
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    StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video RetrievalShaokun Wang, Weili Guan, Jizhou Han … Liqiang NieSIGIR · Harbin Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · +2
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    Towards Conflict-aware Selective Knowledge Unlearning for Continual Few-shot Knowledge Graph CompletionJunlin Zhu, Bo Fu, Guiduo DuanSIGIR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    SymbOmni: Evolving Agentic Omni Models via Symbolic Concept LearningJinxiu Liu, Jianru Li, Tanqing Kuang … Weiyang LiuarXiv
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    Continual Evolution Strategies in Control TasksNICOLA PITZALIS, Eleni Nisioti, Antonio Carta … Andrea CossuGenetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion · University of Pisa · IT University of Copenhagen
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    Hybrid Continual Learning for Low-Resource Australian Aboriginal Language IdentificationPravina Mylvaganam, Ting Dang, Eliathamby Ambikairajah … Jingyao WuarXiv
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    UNIT: Unleash Large Language Models Potential for Graph Continual LearningTairan Huang, Yili Wang, Beibei Hu … Jianliang GaoarXiv
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    A Parametric Memory Head for Continual Generative RetrievalKidist Amde Mekonnen, Yubao Tang, Maarten de RijkeSIGIR · Amsterdam University of the Arts · University of Amsterdam
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    COvolve: Adversarial Co-Evolution of Large-Language-Model-Generated Policies and Environments via Two-Player Zero-Sum GameAlkis Sygkounas, Rishi Hazra, Andreas Persson … Amy LoutfiGenetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference · Örebro University
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    Multi-Faceted Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding for Semantic-Aware Link PredictionJing Qi, Yuxiang Wang, Zhiyuan Yu … Tianxing WuSIGIR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xidian University · +1
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    Selective Distillation for Continual Named Entity Recognition with Memory ReplayWeihua Wang, Yue Cao, Feilong BaoSIGIR · Inner Mongolia University
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    Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Computer Vision: Methods, Benchmarks, and Future DirectionsSarthak Kumar Maharana, Shambhavi Mishra, Yunbei Zhang … Yunhui GuoTMLR
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    Federated continual learning with joint diffusion-based generative replayYouhuizi Li, Yu Chen, Yiran Ma … Shuyuan HuApplied Soft Computing · Hangzhou Dianzi University
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    When Does Continual Learning Require LearningAnne Harrington, Nayan Saxena, Michael Murphy … Yutong BaiarXiv
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    Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision ModelsSergi Masip, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen … Tinne TuytelaarsarXiv
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    Learning Probabilistic Prompt for Continual LearningHye-Kang Park, Sanghoon Lee, Geon Lee … Bumsub HamarXiv
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    To Retain or to Adapt? Generalizing Continual LearningGiulia Lanzillotta, Mandana Samiei, Doina Precup … Claire VernadearXiv
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    ORACIL: Conflict-Graph-Based Order-Robust Analytic Class-Incremental LearningGuanjie Wang, Hongyu Sun, Weiwei Li, Yanhua DongElectronics · Jilin Normal University
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    RL Forgets! Towards Continual Policy OptimizationMao-Lin Luo, Zhe-Xu Wang, Zi-Hao Zhou … Tong WeiarXiv
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    Sample-Aware Knowledge Association and Enhancement for Open-Vocabulary Continual LearningZhilin Zhu, Zhiheng Ma, Yabin Wang … Xiaopeng HongIJCV · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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    An active unlearning framework for continual learningXuemei Cao, Yonghao Li, Xiangkun Wang … Xin YangScientia Sinica Informationis
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    Challenges of Explainability in Continual Learning for Time Series ForecastingQuentin Besnard, Emmanuel Doumard, Nicolas Labroche … Nicolas RinguetEDBT/ICDT Workshops · Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India · 3D Technology Laboratories (United States) · +1
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    GE-PEFT: Gated Expandable Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Continual LearningJanna Omeliyanenko, Andreas Hotho, Daniel SchlörMachine Learning · University of Würzburg · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
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    Improving Alignment for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Prompt-Tuned Vision TransformerLinfeng Xu, Yilei Qian, Xiao Hou … Guanheng HuangDisplays · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Rosetta: Composable Native Multimodal PretrainingXiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang … Ping TanarXiv
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    Shift-level regulated continual test-time adaptation frameworkRui Su, Hang Xu, Wendong Zheng … Wenjian WangData Mining and Knowledge Discovery · Shanxi University
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    SUM: Unified Geometric Surgery on Spatio-Temporal Adaptation Vectors for Federated Class Incremental LearningJaeik Kim, Jaeyoung DoarXiv · Seoul National University · Seoul National University of Education · +1
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    Task-Adaptive FFN Editing for Continual Blind Image Quality AssessmentSatish Maurya, Parimala KancharlaInternational Conference on Signal Processing and Communi… · Indian Institute of Technology Indore
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    Wake up for Touch! Mask-isolated Tactile Alignment Learning in MLLMsYoonhyung Park, Minji Kim, Sungwon Moon, Jiyoung LeearXiv
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    ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for RoboticsRunyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou … Guanzhi WangarXiv
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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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