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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
    NeuMoSync: End‑to‑End Neuromodulatory Control for Plasticity and Adaptability in Continual LearningSeyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung … Mo ChenTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  2. 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
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    A lightweight and reliable continual learning framework for lip-readingZhixue Chen, Changyan Zheng, Yakun Zhang … Erwei YinDisplays · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Academy of Military Medical Sciences · +2
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    Field-Aware Agent Skill RetrievalPaimon Goulart, Liang Wu, Kelly Wan … Liangjie HongarXiv
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    Flexible Knowledge Distillation for Class-Incremental Learning via Structural Knowledge TransferSeungmo Seo, Jongsu Youn, Jaehyung Bae, Jongwon ChoiSpringer LNCS · Chung-Ang University
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    Learning What to Remember: Test-Time Training via Context DistillationZixuan Wang, Xingyu Dang, Rui-Jie Zhu … Jason D. LeearXiv
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    Research on anti-forgetting training strategies for open-vocabulary object detection systemsYujia He, Jianshe Dong, Jiayu LinICCV · Tianjin University of Technology and Education
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    Counterfactual distribution intervention for few-shot class-incremental learningJicheng Yuan, Wenfa Li, Lusi Li … Xin NingKnowledge-Based Systems · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Semiconductors · +2
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    Federated Class-Incremental Object DetectionMatthias Pijarowski, Matthias Rapp, Alexander Wolpert, Martin HeckmannSpringer LNCS · Hensoldt (Germany) · Hochschule Aalen
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    TriP: A triple-prompt framework aligning pre-training and class-incremental objectives in continual graph learning.Can-Ming Cui, Hui-yu Zhou, Pei-Yuan Lai, Chang‐Dong WangNeural Networks · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health and Family Planning · +1
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    Memorization and forgetting in a learning Hopfield neural network: Bifurcation mechanisms, attractors, and basins.Adam E. Essex, Natalia Janson, Rachel A. Norris, A. G. BalanovChaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science · Loughborough University
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    A stability-plasticity balanced continual learning paradigm for dynamic three-way classification and rankingChenglong Yang, Decui LiangEuropean Journal of Operational Research · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Agentic Mixture-of-Experts for Continual LearningNavyatha GandlaparthiIowa State University Digital Repository (Iowa State Univ…
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    Continual Learning: Improved Efficiency and Class Dependency Examination with SHAPCAkua Abanyie, Muhammad Umer, Ravi P. RamachandranIEEE 69th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and… · Rowan University · Fairleigh Dickinson University
  20. 2026
    Dream2Learn: Structured Generative Dreaming for Continual LearningSalvatore Calcagno, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri … Giovanni BellittoInternational Journal of Computer Vision · University of Catania
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  21. 2026
    HM3-VLM: Hybrid Magnitude-Max Merging for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Visual Speech RecognitionChangyan Zheng, Zhixue Chen, Liguo Xu … Jibin YangExpert Systems with Applications · Academy of Military Medical Sciences · Weifang University · +2
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    Relative Parameter Importance in Task-Agnostic Replay-Free Continual LearningMalavika Suresh, Ikechukwu Nkisi-Orji, Nirmalie WiratungaarXiv
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    Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networksFleming Peck, Hongjing Lu, Jesse RissmaniScience · University of California, Los Angeles · Neurobehavioral Systems
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    KTR: Structure-aware replay for continual learning on hypergraphsYanxin Hu, Zhenzhen Xie, Junjie Pang, Chao ChengKnowledge-Based Systems · Changchun University of Science and Technology · Changchun University · +3
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    The Grokked Illusion: True Equilibrium Mitigates Catastrophic ForgettingXiaotian Zhang, Lai Shun Chan, Yue Shang … Ge ZhangarXiv
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    FSE: Continual learning for named entity recognition by fast-slow expertsYunan Zhang, Yang Fan, Heng Li … Qingcai ChenPattern Recognition Letters
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    SPGNet: Spectral Prototype Generation for balancing the memory-structure dilemma in graph continual learningYanfeng Sun, Binbin Chen, Shaofan WangDisplays · Beijing University of Technology
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  38. 2025
    Partitioned Memory Storage Inspired Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYimin Yin, Wanxia Deng, Jing Zhang … Jinghua ZhangEntropy · Hunan Normal University · Hunan First Normal University · +3
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    MemSFT: Mitigating Alignment Tax with an External Parametric MemoryJiarui Wang, Xiang Shi, Jiaqi Cao … Zhouhan LinarXiv
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    PIcsC: Partitioning-Induced Covariate Shift CorrectionBehraj Khan, Behroz Mirza, Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari, Tahir Qasim SyedarXiv
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    RESOURCE-EFFICIENT TRAINING ALGORITHMS FOR DEEP LEARNINGSakshi ChoudharyPurdue · Purdue University West Lafayette
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    Geometry-controlled convex hull prototype framework for online task-free continual learningCong Tu Tran, Thanh Tuan Nguyen, Thanh Tuan Nguyen, Nadège Thirion‐MoreauNeurocomputing · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Université de Toulon · +4
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    Metaplasticity as adaptive gradient preconditioning for incremental learningIsabelle Aguilar, Zayn Andre Zainal, Omid KaveheiarXiv
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    Navigating parameter space: mitigating catastrophic forgetting in continual learningHenry HuangJournal of High School Science · Peninsula Research
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  48. 2026
    Bi-Compatible Task-Agnostic Feature Augmentation for Expansion-Based Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Zijun Shen, Da-Wei Zhou … De‐Chuan ZhanInternational Journal of Computer Vision · Nanjing University
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    Latent-LoRA: Compact Latent-Space Adapters with Gradient-Free Routing for Continual LearningReza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Giulia Pedrielli … Hassan GhasemzadeharXiv
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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 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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