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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
    Continual Low-Rank Adaptation Via Cumulative Unified Optimization.Yue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI
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  4. 2026
    Ability Transfer and Recovery via Modularized Parameters LocalizationSongyao Jin, Kun Zhou, Wenqi Li … Biwei HuangarXiv
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  5. 2026
    Cross-Phase RUL Prediction via Degradation-Aware Continual Learning With Gradient Shift Detection and Dynamic Memory AdjustmentKai Zhong, Qi Wang, Jiaqiang Tian … Peng WangIEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics
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    Evaluating Forgetting in Pretrained Robotic Policy Networks: A Continual Learning Study with OctoYu Ding, Lingqiao Liu, Peng Wang, Lei WangInternational Conference on Digital Image Computing: Tech…
  8. 2025
    Towards understanding memory buffer based continual learningGuodong Zheng, Peng Wang, Tao Sun, Li ShenNeural Networks
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  10. 2025
    Gradient Decomposition and Alignment for Incremental Object DetectionWenlong Luo, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangICCV
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    Demystifying Catastrophic Forgetting in Two-Stage Incremental Object DetectorQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangICML
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  14. 2025
    Active Semi-supervised Continual Learning for Robotic Object RecognitionSangzhou Xia, Xiangli Nie, Peng WangChinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vi…
  15. 2024
    Sustainable Self-evolution Adversarial TrainingWenxuan Wang, Chenglei Wang, Huihui Qi … Yanning ZhangACM MM
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  16. 2024
    Fast and Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding via Incremental LoRAJiajun Liu, Wenjun Ke, Peng Wang … Yining LiIJCAI
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  17. 2024
    Visual Prompt Tuning in Null Space for Continual LearningYue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangNeurIPS
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  18. 2024
    Continual Learning for Anthropomorphic Hand GraspingWanyi Li, Wei Wei, Peng WangIEEE TCDS
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    Towards Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding via Incremental DistillationJiajun Liu, Wenjun Ke, Peng Wang … Yanhe LiuAAAI
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  22. 2023
    Optimal Policy Replay: A Simple Method to Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Incremental Visual NavigationXinting Li, Shizhou Zhang, Yue Lu … Yanning ZhangACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference
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    Neuro-inspired continual anthropomorphic graspingWanyi Li, Wei Wei, Peng WangiScience
  24. 2022
    Continual Referring Expression Comprehension via Dual Modular MemorizationHeng Tao Shen, Cheng Chen, Peng Wang … Jingkuan SongTIP · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
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  25. 2021
    Continual Neural Mapping: Learning An Implicit Scene Representation from Sequential ObservationsZike Yan, Yuxin Tian, Xuesong Shi … Hongbin ZhaICCV · King University · Peking University · +1
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  26. 2021
    Selecting Useful Knowledge from Previous Tasks for Future Learning in a Single NetworkFeifei Shi, Peng Wang, Zhongchao Shi, Yong RuiICPR · Lenovo (China)
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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