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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
    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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  2. 2026
    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
  3. 2026
    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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  4. 2026
    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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  5. 2026
  6. 2026
    Selective Distillation for Continual Named Entity Recognition with Memory ReplayWeihua Wang, Yue Cao, Feilong BaoSIGIR · Inner Mongolia University
  7. 2025
    Embracing Plasticity: Balancing Stability and Plasticity in Continual Recommender SystemsHyunsik Yoo, Seongku Kang, Ruizhong Qiu … Hang-Hang TongSIGIR
  8. 2025
    Continual Text-to-Video Retrieval with Frame Fusion and Task-Aware RoutingZecheng Zhao, Zhi Chen, Zi Huang … Tong ChenSIGIR · The University of Queensland · University of Southern Queensland
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  9. 2025
    Rethinking Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding: Benchmarks and AnalysisTianzhe Zhao, Jiaoyan Chen, Yanchi Ru … Jun LiuSIGIR · Xi'an Jiaotong University · University of Manchester · +3
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  10. 2025
    Continual Origin Tracing of LLM-Generated TextHaoran Li, Quan WangSIGIR · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  11. 2025
    Dynamic Time-aware Continual User Representation LearningS. K. Choi, Sein Kim, Hongseok Kang … Chanyoung ParkSIGIR · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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  12. 2024
    TGOnline: Enhancing Temporal Graph Learning with Adaptive Online Meta-LearningRuijie Wang, Jingyuan Huang, Yutong Zhang … Tarek F. AbdelzaherSIGIR
  13. 2024
    Enhancing Task Performance in Continual Instruction Fine-tuning Through Format UniformityXiaoyu Tan, Leijun Cheng, Xihe Qiu … Qi YuanSIGIR · Shanghai University of Engineering Science · Fudan University
  14. 2023
    Continual Learning on Dynamic Graphs via Parameter IsolationPeiyan Zhang, Yuchen Yan, Chaozhuo Li … Sunghun KimSIGIR · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Peking University · +3
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  15. 2023
    Decomposing Logits Distillation for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Feilong Chen, Xiuyi ChenSIGIR · Baidu (China) · Huawei Technologies (China)
  16. 2023
    Gated Attention with Asymmetric Regularization for Transformer-based Continual Graph LearningHongxiang Lin, Ruiqi Jia, Xiaoqing LyuSIGIR · Peking University
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  18. 2023
    Power Norm Based Lifelong Learning for Paraphrase GenerationsDingcheng Li, Peng Yang, Yue Zhang, Ping LiSIGIR · Bellevue Hospital Center
  19. 2022
    Continual Learning Dialogue Systems - Learning during ConversationSahisnu Mazumder, Bing LiuSIGIR · Intel (United States) · University of Illinois Chicago
  20. 2021
    TIE: A Framework for Embedding-based Incremental Temporal Knowledge Graph CompletionJiapeng Wu, Yishi Xu, Yingxue Zhang … Jackie Chi Kit CheungSIGIR · McGill University · Université de Montréal · +1
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  21. 2021
    CIFDM: Continual and Interactive Feature Distillation for Multi-Label Stream LearningYigong Wang, Zhuoyi Wang, Yu Lin … Dingcheng LiSIGIR · The University of Texas at Dallas · Amazon (United States)
  22. 2021
    Iterative Network Pruning with Uncertainty Regularization for Lifelong Sentiment ClassificationBinzong Geng, Min Yang, Fajie Yuan … Ruifeng XuSIGIR · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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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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