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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
    AutoSkill: Experience-Driven Lifelong Learning via Skill Self-EvolutionYutao Yang, Junsong Li, Qianjun Pan … Liang HearXiv
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  2. 2025
    Adaptive Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Qin Chen … Liang HeIEEE TCSVT · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +2
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  5. 2025
    CL-MoE: Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Model with Dual Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Xingjiao Wu … Liang HeCVPR · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +1
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  8. 2025
    An Empirical Study of Catastrophic Forgetting in Large Language Models During Continual Fine-TuningYun Luo, Zhen Yang, Fandong Meng … Yue ZhangIEEE Transactions · Westlake University · Tencent (China)
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  9. 2024
    Recent Advances of Foundation Language Models-based Continual Learning: A SurveyYutao Yang, Jie Zhou, Xuanwen Ding … Liang HeACM Computing Surveys · East China Normal University
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  11. 2024
    Continual Learning with Semi-supervised Contrastive Distillation for Incremental Neural Machine TranslationYunlong Liang, Fandong Meng, Jiaan Wang … Jie ZhouACL · Beijing Jiaotong University · Tencent (China)
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  14. 2022
    ELLE: Efficient Lifelong Pre-training for Emerging DataYujia Qin, Jiajie Zhang, Yankai Lin … Jie ZhouACL
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  15. 2020
    Continual Relation Learning via Episodic Memory Activation and ReconsolidationXu Han, Yi Dai, Tianyu Gao … Jie ZhouACL · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · Intelligent Health (United Kingdom) · +3
  16. 2020
    Disentangle-based Continual Graph Representation LearningXiaoyu Kou, Yankai Lin, Shaobo Liu … Yan ZhangEMNLP · Peking University · Tencent (China)
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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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