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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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    Exploring Forgetting in Large Language Model Pre-TrainingLiao, Chonghua, Ruobing Xie, Sun, Xingwu … Zhanhui KangACL
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    MoExtend: Tuning New Experts for Modality and Task ExtensionShanshan Zhong, Shanghua Gao, Zhongzhan Huang … Pan ZhouACL
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    HFT: Half Fine-Tuning for Large Language ModelsTingfeng Hui, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuohuan Wang … Hua WuACL
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    Don't Half-listen: Capturing Key-part Information in Continual Instruction TuningYongquan He, Wenyuan Zhang, Xuancheng Huang … Cai, XunliangACL
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    Unveiling Linguistic Regions in Large Language ModelsZhihao Zhang, Jun Zhao, Qi Zhang … Xuanjing HuangACL
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    Self-Distillation Bridges Distribution Gap in Language Model Fine-TuningZhaorui Yang, Tianyu Pang, Haozhe Feng … Qian LiuACL
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    Incremental Sequence Labeling: A Tale of Two ShiftsShengjie Qiu, Junhao Zheng, Zhen Liu … Qianli MaACL
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    Model Editing at Scale leads to Gradual and Catastrophic ForgettingAkshat Gupta, Anurag Rao, Gopala AnumanchipalliACL
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    LLaMA Pro: Progressive LLaMA with Block ExpansionChengyue Wu, Yukang Gan, Yixiao Ge … Ping LuoACL
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    SAPT: A Shared Attention Framework for Parameter-Efficient Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsWeixiang Zhao, Shilong Wang, Yulin Hu … Wanxiang CheACL · Harbin Institute of Technology · XTC (China)
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    TaSL: Continual Dialog State Tracking via Task Skill Localization and ConsolidationYujie Feng, Xu Chu, Yongxin Xu … Xiao-Ming WuACL · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Peking University · +1
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    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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    Continual Dialogue State Tracking via Reason-of-Select DistillationYujie Feng, Bo Liu, Xiaoyu Dong … Albert Y. S. LamACL · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Fano Labs (China)
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    Flexible Weight Tuning and Weight Fusion Strategies for Continual Named Entity RecognitionYahan Yu, Duzhen Zhang, Xiuyi Chen, Chenhui ChuACL · Kyoto University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
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    Non-compositional Expression Generation and its Continual LearningJianing Zhou, Suma BhatACL · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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    Continual Contrastive Spoken Language UnderstandingUmberto Cappellazzo, Enrico Fini, Muqiao Yang … Bhiksha RajACL
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    Domain-Agnostic Neural Architecture for Class Incremental Continual Learning in Document Processing PlatformMateusz Wójcik, Witold Kościukiewicz, Mateusz Baran … Adam GonczarekACL
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    Exploring Continual Learning for Code Generation ModelsPrateek Yadav, Qing Sun, Hantian Ding … Bing XiangACL
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    Class-Incremental Learning based on Label GenerationYijia Shao, Yiduo Guo, Dongyan Zhao, Bing LiuACL
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    Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Massively Multilingual Continual LearningGenta Indra Winata, Lingjue Xie, Karthik Radhakrishnan … Daniel Preoţiuc-PietroACL
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    Learning Non-linguistic Skills without Sacrificing Linguistic ProficiencyMandar Sharma, Nikhil Muralidhar, Naren RamakrishnanACL
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    Domain Incremental Lifelong Learning in an Open WorldYi Dai, Hao Lang, Yinhe Zheng … Yongbin LiACL
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    Rehearsal-free Continual Language Learning via Efficient Parameter IsolationZhicheng Wang, Yufang Liu, Tao Ji … Wenqiu ZengACL · East China Normal University · China Institute of Finance and Capital Markets
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    Improving Gender Fairness of Pre-Trained Language Models without Catastrophic ForgettingZahra Fatemi, Xing Chen, Wenhao Liu, Caimming XiongACL · University of Illinois Chicago · University of Chicago · +1
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    Consistent Prototype Learning for Few-Shot Continual Relation ExtractionXiudi Chen, Hui Wu, Xiaodong ShiACL · Xiamen University
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    Large-scale Lifelong Learning of In-context Instructions and How to Tackle ItJisoo Mok, Jaeyoung Do, Sung‐Jin Lee … Sungroh YoonACL · Seoul National University · New Generation University College · +4
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    Knowledge Transfer in Incremental Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine TranslationKaiyu Huang, Peng Li, Jin Ma … Yang LiuACL · Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +5
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    Learning “O” Helps for Learning More: Handling the Unlabeled Entity Problem for Class-incremental NERRuotian Ma, Xuanting Chen, Lin Zhang … Yun Wen ChenACL · Fudan University · Wanfang Data (China)
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    Cross-lingual Continual LearningMeryem M’hamdi, Xiang Ren, Jonathan MayACL · University of Southern California · California Southern University
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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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