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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
    StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video RetrievalShaokun Wang, Weili Guan, Jizhou Han … Liqiang NieSIGIR · Harbin Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · +2
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  2. 2026
    Towards Conflict-aware Selective Knowledge Unlearning for Continual Few-shot Knowledge Graph CompletionJunlin Zhu, Bo Fu, Guiduo DuanSIGIR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  3. 2026
    A Parametric Memory Head for Continual Generative RetrievalKidist Amde Mekonnen, Yubao Tang, Maarten de RijkeSIGIR · Amsterdam University of the Arts · University of Amsterdam
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  4. 2026
    Multi-Faceted Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding for Semantic-Aware Link PredictionJing Qi, Yuxiang Wang, Zhiyuan Yu … Tianxing WuSIGIR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xidian University · +1
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  5. 2026
  6. 2026
    Selective Distillation for Continual Named Entity Recognition with Memory ReplayWeihua Wang, Yue Cao, Feilong BaoSIGIR · Inner Mongolia University
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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