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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
    Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural NetworksRiccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University · Politecnico di Milano
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  2. 2026
    AdaEvol: Dynamic Adapter Merging for Effective Continual Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Large Language ModelsR X Liu, Min Yu, Jianguo Jiang … Ming LiuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  3. 2026
    Alleviating Forgetting in Class-Incremental Learning Via Implicit Semantic AugmentationTao Yu, Yan Chen, Xinyu Liu … Liang DuICASSP · Shanxi University · Taiyuan University of Science and Technology · +2
  4. 2026
    CEAL: Cross-Expert Attention with Curated Peer Selection for Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Exemplar-Free Continual LearningSeongsu Kim, Dongheon Lee, Sangwoo Yun … Joonki PaikICASSP · Chung-Ang University
  5. 2026
    Continual Learning with Clip Text-Prototype and an Orthogonal Pre-Expanded Classification HeadTong Yu, Kanghao Chen, Jiantao Tan … Ruixuan WangICASSP · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangzhou University · +1
  6. 2026
    Cross Task Knowledge Transfer for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningShuai Chen, Leike An, Jiaxi Wang … Jibin WangICASSP · China Mobile (China) · Beijing Institute of Technology
  7. 2026
    From Cold-Start to Stabilization: A Dual-Prototype Framework for Online Any-Shot Continual LearningChengyan Liu, Linglan Zhao, Juping Gu … Fan LyuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  8. 2026
    LDEPrompt: Layer-importance guided Dual Expandable Prompt Pool for Pre-trained Model-based Class-Incremental LearningLinjie Li, Zhenyu Wu, Huiyu Xiao, Jie YangICASSP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  9. 2026
    Rehearsing High Confident Samples via Masked Optimal Transportation for Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Named Entity RecognitionZhiyuan Ma, Miaomiao Gu, Jialin Cao … Dan LiuICASSP · Machine Intelligence Research Institute
  10. 2026
    Revisiting Prototypes for Open-Domain Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsYadong Lu, Shitian Zhao, Boxiang Yun … Yue WangICASSP · East China Normal University
  11. 2026
    Sard: Similarity-Aligned Reminiscence and Distillation for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningSeongsu Kim, In-Soo Kim, Sangwoo Yun … Joonki PaikICASSP · Chung-Ang University
  12. 2026
    SCI-GR: Sequential Controllable Inpainting-Based Generative Replay For Class-Incremental Object DetectionNuohan Xue, Caixia Yan, Yi-Xiang Wang … Yudeng XinICASSP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · The University of Melbourne
  13. 2026
    The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma Revisited: A Brain-Inspired Continual Learning Method with Representation-Function SeparationYuyang Han, Li Z, Zhiying Long, Xia WuICASSP · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
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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