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The foundational work on continual learning, 1980 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    NeuMoSync: End‑to‑End Neuromodulatory Control for Plasticity and Adaptability in Continual LearningSeyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung … Mo ChenTMLR
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  2. 2026
    Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Computer Vision: Methods, Benchmarks, and Future DirectionsSarthak Kumar Maharana, Shambhavi Mishra, Yunbei Zhang … Yunhui GuoTMLR
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    Amnesia: A Stealthy Replay Attack on Continual Learning DreamsAhmed Sharshar, Naveen Kumar Kummari, Mohsen GuizaniTMLR
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    Theoretical Foundations of Continual Learning via Drift-Plus-PenaltyNazreen Shah, Govinda Arya, Bharath B. N., Ranjitha PrasadTMLR
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    CI-CBM: Class-Incremental Concept Bottleneck Model for Interpretable Continual LearningAmirhosein Javadi, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tara Javidi, Tsui-Wei WengTMLR
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    ARROW: Augmented Replay for RObust World modelsAbdulaziz Alyahya, Abdallah Al Siyabi, Markus Ernst … Gideon KowadloTMLR
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    The AI Hippocampus: How Far are We From Human Memory?Zixia Jia, Jiaqi Li, Yipeng Kang … Song-Chun ZhuTMLR
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    Transitioning Heads Conundrum: The Hidden Bottleneck in Long-Tailed Class-Incremental LearningR. Vigneswaran, Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, Vineeth N. BalasubramanianTMLR
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    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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    Taming Modality Entanglement in Continual Audio-Visual SegmentationHong, Yuyang, Qi Yang, Tao Zhang … Shiming XiangTMLR
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    Continually Adding New Languages to Multilingual Language ModelsAbraham Toluwase Owodunni, Sachin KumarTMLR
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    Holistic Continual Learning under Concept Drift with Adaptive Memory RealignmentAlif Ashrafee, Jedrzej Kozal, Micha l Woźniak, B. KrawczykTMLR
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    Parameter Efficient Continual Learning with Dynamic Low-Rank AdaptationPrashant Bhat, Shakib Yazdani, Elahe Arani, Bahram ZonoozTMLR
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    Memory-Modular Classification: Learning to Generalize with Memory ReplacementDahyun Kang, Ahmet İşcen, Eun-Byeol Jo … Cordelia SchmidTMLR
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    Distributed Multi-Agent Lifelong LearningPrithviraj Tarale, Edward A. Rietman, Hava T. SiegelmannTMLR · University of Massachusetts Amherst
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    From Offline to Online Memory-Free and Task-Free Continual Learning via Fine-Grained HypergradientsNicolas Michel, Maorong Wang, Jiangpeng He, Toshihiko YamasakiTMLR
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    Unlocking [CLS] Features for Continual Post-TrainingMurat Onur Yildirim, Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Joaquin VanschorenTMLR
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    Efficient Few-Shot Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsA. Panos, Rahaf Aljundi, Daniel Olmeda Reino, Richard TurnerTMLR
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    Class Incremental Learning from First Principles: A ReviewNeil Ashtekar, Jingxi Zhu, Vasant HonavarTMLR
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    Uncertainty-Based Experience Replay for Task-Agnostic Continual Reinforcement LearningAdrian Remonda, Cole Terrell, Eduardo Veas, Marc MasanaTMLR
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    Hard-Negative Prototype-Based Regularization for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningSeongbeom Park, Hyunju Yun, Daewon Chae … Jinkyu KimTMLR
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    Rethinking Memory in Continual Learning: Beyond a Monolithic Store of the PastYaqian Zhang, Bernhard Pfahringer, Eibe Frank, Albert BifetTMLR
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    Modality-Inconsistent Continual Learning of Multimodal Large Language ModelsWeiguo Pian, Shijian Deng, Shentong Mo … Yapeng TianTMLR
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    A unifying framework for generalised Bayesian online learning in non-stationary environmentsGerardo Duràn-Martín, Leandro Sánchez-Betancourt, Alexander Y. Shestopaloff, Kevin MurphyTMLR
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    Continual Memorization of Factoids in Language ModelsHoward Chen, Jiayi Geng, Adithya Bhaskar … Danqi ChenTMLR
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    Privacy Leakage via Output Label Space and Differentially Private Continual LearningMarlon Tobaben, Alrawajfeh, Talal, Marcus Klasson … Antti HonkelaTMLR
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    Towards LifeSpan Cognitive SystemsYu Wang, Chi Han, Tongtong Wu … Julian McAuleyTMLR
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    Buffer-based Gradient Projection for Continual Federated LearningShenghong Dai, Jy-yong Sohn, Yicong Chen … Kangwook LeeTMLR
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    Theoretical Insights into Overparameterized Models in Multi-Task and Replay-Based Continual LearningMohammadamin Banayeeanzade, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Mohammad RostamiTMLR
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    Retrospective Feature Estimation for Continual LearningNghia D. Nguyen, Hieu Trung Nguyen, Ang Li … Khoa D. DoanTMLR
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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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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