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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
    Continual Learning in TransitionZhiyan Hou, Dan Zhang, Tao Feng … Tat-Seng ChuaarXiv
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  2. 2023
    Continual Instruction Tuning for Large Multimodal ModelsJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Kuan Zhu … Jinqiao WangTIP · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation
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  3. 2026
    PASs-MoE: Mitigating Misaligned Co-drift among Router and Experts via Pathway Activation Subspaces for Continual LearningZhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma … Jinqiao WangACL · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  5. 2024
    SEEKR: Selective Attention-Guided Knowledge Retention for Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Kuan Zhu … Jinqiao WangEMNLP · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Institute of Automation · +1
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  6. 2023
    Robust Batch Relation Preserving for Lifelong Unsupervised Domain AdaptationJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Ming Tang, Jinqiao WangInternational Conference on Intelligent Education and Int… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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 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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