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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
    Self-adaptive Low-Rank Adaptation for Class-Incremental LearningYiming Song, Qiqi Duan, Lijun Sun … Yuhui ShiSpringer LNCS · Southern University of Science and Technology · Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics · +3
  2. 2026
    Flexible Knowledge Distillation for Class-Incremental Learning via Structural Knowledge TransferSeungmo Seo, Jongsu Youn, Jaehyung Bae, Jongwon ChoiSpringer LNCS · Chung-Ang University
  3. 2026
    Federated Class-Incremental Object DetectionMatthias Pijarowski, Matthias Rapp, Alexander Wolpert, Martin HeckmannSpringer LNCS · Hensoldt (Germany) · Hochschule Aalen
  4. 2026
    Kernel-Prototype Guided Background Adaptation for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationViet-Anh Tran Ngoc, Dinh-Nhat Loi, Thanh-Hai Dang, Quynh-Trang Pham ThiSpringer LNCS · Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City · Ho Chi Minh City University of Industry and Trade
  5. 2026
    GRSNN: A Flexible Graph-Wired Spiking Neural Network for Neuromorphic Classification and Continual LearningXingyu Tao, Zhongjun Luo, Tomomi HashimotoSpringer LNCS · Guilin University of Electronic Technology · Saitama Institute of Technology
  6. 2026
    Multimodal Class-Incremental Learning Based on Wavelet Transform and Orthogonal ConstraintShile Yang, Yanjun YinSpringer LNCS · Inner Mongolia Normal University · Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Meteorological Bureau · +1
  7. 2026
    The Effects of Task Similarity on Catastrophic Forgetting in Deep Residual NetworksChaolin Yang, Yonggang LuSpringer LNCS · Lanzhou University
  8. 2026
    Compositional Prompt Network for General Continual Learning in Decoupled Blurry ScenariosXiudong Chen, Yuehui ChenSpringer LNCS · University of Jinan
  9. 2026
  10. 2026
    Estimating Representation Drift for Prompt-Based Class-Incremental LearningYuting Hou, Rongyu Zhu, Junjie Liu, Kedian MuSpringer LNCS · Peking University
  11. 2026
    FbRA: Frequency-band Reconstruction and Adaptation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShile Yang, Yanjun YinSpringer LNCS · Inner Mongolia Normal University · Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Meteorological Bureau · +1
  12. 2026
    Dynamic Elastic Weight Consolidation for Continual Learning in Spiking Neural NetworksJunxiu Liu, Puyang Li, Qiang Fu … Xue OuyangSpringer LNCS · Guangxi Normal University
  13. 2026
  14. 2026
    MECAD: A Multi-expert Architecture for Continual Anomaly DetectionMalihe Dahmardeh, Francesco SettiSpringer LNCS · University of Verona
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  15. 2026
    Active Semi-supervised Continual Learning for Robotic Object RecognitionSangzhou Xia, Xiangli Nie, Peng WangSpringer LNCS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
  16. 2026
    Balance Orthogonal Projection for Prompt in Continual LearningJunjian Ren, Tian Wang, Aichun Zhu … Hichem SnoussiSpringer LNCS · Beihang University · Nanjing Tech University · +4
  17. 2026
    Controlled Cluster Separation for Class Incremental LearningZiyi Zhang, Huaiwen ZhangSpringer LNCS · Inner Mongolia University
  18. 2026
    Enhancing Replay-Based Continual Learning via Predictive Uncertainty ControllerChengying Ding, Alex Lu, Jiahao Fan, Yanan SunSpringer LNCS · Sichuan University
  19. 2026
  20. 2026
    Hierarchical Bayesian Causal Modular Learning: A Two-Level Columnar Architecture for Continual LearningBen Goertzel, Charlie Derr, Yohannes TayeSpringer LNCS · Singularity University
  21. 2026
    Multi-Stage Variance-Controlled Gradient Updates: Toward Robust Continual LearningJi Feng, Qingjun Zhang, Yongqiang Xu … Degang YangSpringer LNCS · Chongqing Normal University
  22. 2026
    R2A2-MoE: Ridge Regression-Based Analytic Adaptation with Mixture of Experts for Continual Learning with Vision-Language ModelsM. X. Liu, Quan Fang, Junyu Gao, Yang YangSpringer LNCS · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  23. 2026
  24. 2026
    Weighted Evidential Continual Learning with Logits-Angle Knowledge DistillationChao Yang, Dingyü Xue, Shizhuo Deng … Dongyue ChenSpringer LNCS · Northeastern University · Foshan University
  25. 2026
    cPNN: Continuous Progressive Neural Networks for Evolving Streaming Time SeriesFederico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer, Emanuele Della ValleSpringer LNCS · Politecnico di Milano
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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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