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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Automated Feature Lifecycle Management in Large-Scale Continual Ranking SystemsBhavani Shankar P. S. V. N, Thejus Vm, Surender KumarSIGIR
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    A Parametric Memory Head for Continual Generative RetrievalKidist Amde Mekonnen, Yu-Bao Tang, M. de RijkeSIGIR
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  9. 2026
    StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video RetrievalShaokun Wang, Wei-Li Guan, Jizhou Han … Liqiang NieSIGIR
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  10. 2025
    Rethinking Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding: Benchmarks and AnalysisTianzhe Zhao, Jiaoyan Chen, Yanchi Ru … Jun LiuSIGIR
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    Dynamic Time-aware Continual User Representation LearningSeungyoon Choi, Sein Kim, Hongseok Kang … Chanyoung ParkSIGIR
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  15. 2025
    Continual Text-to-Video Retrieval with Frame Fusion and Task-Aware RoutingZecheng Zhao, Zhi Chen, Zi Huang … Tong ChenSIGIR
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    Decomposing Logits Distillation for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Feilong Chen, Xiuyi ChenSIGIR
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    Power Norm Based Lifelong Learning for Paraphrase GenerationsThalaiyasingam Ajanthan, Puneet Kumar, J. Kirkpatrick … Andrei A. RusuSIGIR
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    Continual Learning on Dynamic Graphs via Parameter IsolationPeiyan Zhang, Yuchen Yan, Chaozhuo Li … Sunghun KimSIGIR
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  23. 2021
    Task-Oriented Dialogue System as Natural Language GenerationWeizhi Wang, Zhirui Zhang, Junliang Guo … Weihua LuoSIGIR · University of California, Santa Barbara · Tencent (China) · +2
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  24. 2022
    Continual Learning Dialogue Systems - Learning during ConversationSahisnu Mazumder, Bing LiuSIGIR · Intel (United States) · University of Illinois Chicago
  25. 2021
    TIE: A Framework for Embedding-based Incremental Temporal Knowledge Graph CompletionJiapeng Wu, Yishi Xu, Yingxue Zhang … Jackie Chi Kit CheungSIGIR · McGill University · Université de Montréal · +1
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  26. 2021
    CIFDM: Continual and Interactive Feature Distillation for Multi-Label Stream LearningYigong Wang, Zhuoyi Wang, Yu Lin … Dingcheng LiSIGIR · The University of Texas at Dallas · Amazon (United States)
  27. 2021
    Iterative Network Pruning with Uncertainty Regularization for Lifelong Sentiment ClassificationBinzong Geng, Min Yang, Fajie Yuan … Ruifeng XuSIGIR · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +5
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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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