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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
    Discrete synaptic states and context-modulated readouts support continual learningYuan Gao, Ştefan Mihalaş, Denis TurcubioRxiv · University of Washington · Allen Institute
  2. 2026
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Incremental Learning Using Hybrid Approach: Interleaving Memory Replay and Parameter Regularization for Sequential Text ClassificationZeeshan Ahmed Nizamani, Mir Sajjad Hussain Talpur, Pinial Khan Butt, Riaz Ali BuriroElectronics · Sindh Agriculture University
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    LifeMem: Enabling Lifelong Experience Reuse for LLM AgentsYuli Qiu, Yutong Li, Wei Su … Yuang GuoarXiv
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    Plateau-gated one-shot plasticity supports continual recognition memoryGuanchun Li, Sandro Romani, Jeffrey C. MageebioRxiv · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Janelia Research Campus
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    Continual Learning Frameworks for Long-Term Knowledge Retention in Evolving Data StreamsFatmasari, M. Alshar'e, C. S. Kulkarni, Monali GulhaneJournal of Data Science
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    Continual Learning Frameworks for Long-Term Knowledge Retention in Evolving Data StreamsFatmasari ., Marwan Alshar'e, Chaitanya Shrikant Kulkarni, Monali GulhaneJournal of Data Sciences · Universitas Bina Darma · Sohar University · +1
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    Distilling Image Prototypes for Guided Test-Time AdaptationLiwen Wang, Xingbo Dong, Iman Yi Liao … Zhe JinarXiv
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    When Synthetic Data Hurts: On Catastrophic Forgetting in Skill Retrieval for LLM AgentsSyed Shariyar Murtaza, Yifan Nie, Utkarsh Soni … Arvid FrydenlundarXiv
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    AdalReID: Auto-selected Knowledge Adapters for Lifelong Person Re-identification.Xue-Lin Qian, Rui-Qi Wu, Zhong-Ling Huang … Junwei HanTPAMI
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    Continual Learning Mechanisms Compose for Long-Horizon MemorizationZheyuan Zhang, Alvin Zhang, Daniel Khashabi, Tianmin ShuarXiv
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    Hyperspherical semantic compensation of vision-language models for continual learningHongsheng Zhang, Zhong Ji, Chen Tang, Yanwei PangKnowledge-Based Systems · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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    TASTE: Throughput-Aware Batch Size Tuning for On-Device Edge LearningAvik Bhatnagar, Federico Nicolás Peccia, Oliver BringmannarXiv
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    Mitigating Performance Discrepancy in Cross-Domain 3D Class-Incremental LearningJinge Ma, Gautham Vinod, Bruce Coburn … Fengqing ZhuarXiv
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    EvoHarnessBench: Can Your Agents Keep Pace with an Evolving Harness?Zixuan Ke, Vaidehi Patil, Haizhou Shi … Shafiq JotyarXiv
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    Robust adaptation of visual representations for few-shot class-incremental learning via geometric calibrationTao Zhang, C.L. Philip Chen, Xiwen Luo … Jiehao LiPattern Recognition · South China University of Technology · South China Agricultural University · +1
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    Towards Understanding Pause Token Fine-Tuning Dynamics: A Mode Retention PerspectiveJaehyeon Kim, Suhwan Kim, Nakyung Lee … Jungwoo LeearXiv
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    MASkills: Continual Skills Optimization for Multi-Agent LLM SystemsHuaiyuan Yao, Xiaoou Liu, Charles Fleming … Hua WeiarXiv
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    A scalable complexity-regularized modular network for continual learningZiye Fang, Bo Wan, Shangqi Guo, Jian K. LiuNeurocomputing · Xidian University · Human Computer Interaction (Switzerland) · +2
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    Bridging Continual Learning and Green Cloud Computing: Foundations for Sustainable Time Series Anomaly DetectionMateusz Smendowski, Roberto Corizzo, Nathalie Japkowicz, Piotr NawrockiJournal of Grid Computing
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    Emergence of Fibrations, Compression, and Symmetry Breaking in Artificial Neural NetworksOsvaldo Matías Velarde, Lucas C. Parra, Alireza Hashemi, Hernan A MaksearXiv
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    Learning to Replay: A meta-reinforcement learning approach to experience replay in continual learningHaoran Yu, Jianzhou Feng, Huaxiao Qiu … Tianyu YangPattern Recognition · Yanshan University · Hebei University of Environmental Engineering
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    Learning Without Forgetting for Continual Learning in LLMs Through Adaptive LoRA RanksFuli Qiao, Mehrdad MahdaviMachine Learning · Pennsylvania State University
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    Reducing catastrophic forgetting via gradient-based task organization in class-incremental learningJunlong Huang, Lingji Xu, Yining Liu, Zhenglin LiNeurocomputing · Sun Yat-sen University · Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) · +1
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    SELECT: SELEctive Context Transfer for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationAvi Gupta, Saurabh Yadav, Koteswar Rao Jerripothula, Tammam TilloarXiv
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    Continual learning via semantic memory systemMingsen Luo, Qihe Liu, Fei Ye … Shijie ZhouPattern Recognition · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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    Structural generalization and continual learning enabled by factorized entorhinal-hippocampal memory and entorhinal-parietal action circuitsJaedong Hwang, Sujaya Neupane, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ila FietebioRxiv · McGovern Institute for Brain Research · Coherent (United States) · +1
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    Continual learning via dynamic expandable task-specific and general representationsQihe Liu, yongcheng zhong, Fei Ye … ShiJie ZhouKnowledge-Based Systems · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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    Temporal Memory-Aware Online Test-Time Adaptation on Dynamic GraphsBo Li, Xin Zheng, Ming Jin … Shirui PanarXiv
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    A complementary learning system for continual episodic memory in large language modelsXu Pan, Ely Hahami, Roy Siegelmann, Haim SompolinskybioRxiv · Harvard University Press · Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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    Fast Weight Attention for Continual LearningYifan Zhang, Steve Ta, Jasper Zhang … Andrew Chi-Chih YaoarXiv
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    Memory Anchors for Continual Robot LearningMaximilian Du, Zhanyi Sun, Chen Xu … Shuran SongarXiv
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    Parameter Efficient Continual Learning for Sparse Event-Based TransformersVaishnavi Nagabhushana, Kartikay Agrawal, Ayon BorthakurarXiv
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    Thomson: Continual Learning of Frontier Models for SovereignAIShengzhuang Chen, Jerrod Parker, Yejin Bang … Jonathan Richard SchwarzarXiv
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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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