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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
    Continual Self-Improvement with Lightweight Experiential Latent MemoriesVaggelis Dorovatas, Nancy Kalaj, Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Dimensionality Controls When Modularity Helps in Continual LearningKathrin Korte, C. Adriano, Joachim Winther Pedersen … Sebastian RisiarXiv
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  3. 2026
    Keep the General, Inject the Specific: Structured Dialogue Fine-Tuning for Knowledge Injection without Catastrophic ForgettingYijie Hong, Xiaofei Yin, Xinzhong Wang … Sufeng Duan2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  4. 2026
    Learning continually with representational driftSuzanne van der Veldt, Gido M. van de Ven, Sanne Moorman, Guillaume EtterTrends Open
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  5. 2026
    KeepLoRA++: Continual Learning with Layer-Scaled Residual Gradient AdaptationMao-Lin Luo, Yi-Lin Zhang, Zi-Hao Zhou … Min-Ling ZhangarXiv
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  6. 2026
    Multimodal Deepfake Detection with Quantum State Inspired Analytic Incremental Adaptability LearningJianbin Ye, Man Xiao, Bo Liu … Huaimin Wang2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · National University of Defense Technology
  7. 2026
    SA-LoRA: Shared-A decoupled low-rank adaptation for class-incremental learningXiaohuan Bing, Yuanhao Xi, Ramin YahyapourInformation Sciences · Liaoning Technical University · University of Göttingen · +1
  8. 2026
    Spatial-Temporal Side Adaptation with Difference-based Frame Selector for video class-incremental learningYu Dai, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang … Hui LiDisplays · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  9. 2026
    STEP: Stable Gradient Projection for Continual LearningLonglong Zhai, Jiao Tian, Feng Yan … Panpan Zheng2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Xinjiang University · Ocean University of China
  10. 2026
    Tabular continual learning from high-heterogeneity feature spaces via memory and forgetting dual-drivenYan Xian, Hong Yu, Yongfang Xie, Guoyin WangInformation Processing & Management · Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Central South University · +1
  11. 2026
    Text-Guided Prototype Replay and Classifier Guidance for Incremental Few-Shot Semantic SegmentationLuofeng Zhang, Shengzhe You, Qian Shao … Fei Gao2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Zhejiang University of Technology · Zhejiang University
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    Retrievable Gradients: Continual Post-Training Without Cumulative Weight DriftWeihang Su, Jiacheng Kang, Jingyan Xu … Yiqun LiuarXiv
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  16. 2026
    HERO: A Heterogeneity-Aware Benchmark Library for Federated Continual LearningThinh T. H. Nguyen, Le-Tuan Nguyen, Minh-Duong Nguyen … Kok-Seng WongarXiv
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  17. 2026
    LatentGym: A Testbed For Cross-Task Experiential Learning With Controllable Latent StructureDaksh Mittal, Tommaso Castellani, Thomson Yen … Hongseok NamkoongarXiv
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  18. 2026
    SGFormer++: Semantic Graph Transformer for Incremental 3D Scene Graph GenerationMengshi Qi, Changsheng Lv, Zijian Fu … Huadong MaarXiv
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  19. 2026
    Online Lifelong Dynamic Learning Control for Manipulators With Closed Architecture in Multi-Tasking EnvironmentsMingyu Wang, M Wang, Chenguang YangRA-L · Ministry of Education · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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  21. 2026
    Attention-based Experience Replay Framework for Continual Learning of Agnostic Time Series Forecasting ModelsQuentin Besnard, Nicolas RagotarXiv · Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India
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  22. 2026
    Decoupled Mixture-of-Experts for Parametric Knowledge InjectionBao Yue, Weihang Su, Qingyao Ai … Yiqun LiuarXiv
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  23. 2026
    GRASP: Gradient-Aligned Sequential Parameter Transfer for Memory-Efficient Multi-Source LearningMary Isabelle Wisell, Nicholas Jacobs, Aayush Manandhar, Salimeh Yasaei SekehICPR
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  24. 2026
    Learning to Hear Hesitation: Continual Learning for Disfluency-Aware ASRHenri-Leon Kordt, Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan WermterarXiv
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  26. 2026
    MoDiCoL: A Modular Diagnostic Continual Learning Dataset for Robust Speech RecognitionTheresa Pekarek-Rosin, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan WermterarXiv
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  27. 2026
    MoDiCoL: A Modular Diagnostic Continual Learning Dataset for Robust Speech RecognitionTheresa Pekarek Rosin, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan WermterarXiv · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  29. 2026
    Enhancing decision boundaries in continual learning through a decoupled Gaussian frameworkZHIKUN FENG, Chi Chen, Zhou Yang … Yakun JuInformation Processing & Management · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Chengdu University of Information Technology · +3
  30. 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
  31. 2026
    ECA: Efficient Continual Alignment for Open-Ended Image-to-Text GenerationJiangtao Kong, Peijun Zhao, Chun-Fu Chen … Huajie ShaoICML
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  32. 2026
    Amnesia: A Stealthy Replay Attack on Continual Learning DreamsAhmed Sharshar, Naveen Kumar Kummari, Mohsen GuizaniTMLR
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  33. 2026
    TaskFusion: Continual Anomaly Detection for Heterogeneous Tabular DataDayananda Herurkar, Federico Raue, Joachim Folz … Andreas DengelarXiv
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  34. 2026
    FOGO: Forgetting-aware Orthogonalization OptimizerToan Nguyen, Yang Liu (4829), Trung Le … Flora D. SalimarXiv
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  35. 2026
    GUI-AC: Enhancing Continual Learning in GUI AgentsCan Lin, Tao Feng, Hangjie Yuan … Zhonghong OuarXiv
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  36. 2026
    Accurate and Resource-Efficient Federated Continual LearningJebacyril Arockiaraj, Dhruv Parikh, Jayashree Adivarahan … Viktor PrasannaarXiv
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  37. 2026
    Listen, Look, and Learn: Learning Without Forgetting through SAM-AudioAvi Gupta, Nilotpal Sinha, Vishnu Raj … Tammam TilloarXiv
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  38. 2026
    Preserving Plasticity in Continual Learning via Dynamical IsometryAndries Rosseau, Robert Müller, Ann NowéICML
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  39. 2026
    Crafting Your Evolving Dreams: Concept-Incremental Versatile CustomizationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · University of Trento · +5
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  40. 2026
    HydraCIL: Decoupled Class-Incremental Learning through Prototype-Guided Multi-Head ClassifiersDaniel Vila-Cruz, Laura Morán‐Fernández, Verónica Bolón-CanedoarXiv
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    SD2-SNN: Self-distillation and structural decomposition framework for SNNs in continual learningZhenhao Xie, Xia Xiao, Hongsheng Zhang … Zhong JiNeural Networks · Tianjin University
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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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    ASMem: Anchor sparse memory for multi-domain knowledge editing of large language modelsGuanyu Zheng, Zhenyu Wang, Yang Zhao … Chengqing ZongNeural Networks · South China University of Technology · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
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    Continual Quadruped Robots Coordination via Semantic Skill DiscoveryDaoqing Wang, Yuchen Xiao, Weixuan Huang … Yang YuarXiv
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    Knowledge-aware replay for multi-label class-incremental learningChengtai Cao, Xinhong Chen, Qun Song … Jianping WangExpert Systems with Applications · City University of Hong Kong · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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    Sparse Subspace-to-Expert Sharing for Task-Agnostic Continual LearningFatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Tanwi Mallick, Ali JannesariarXiv
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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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