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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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    Feedback-regulated dual-role memory consolidation for continual learning: a stability–plasticity framework inspired by hippocampo-cortical systems consolidationZhaojie Yu, Shengli Cao, Guohe Zhang, Peihua FengCognitive Neurodynamics · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications
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    Task-Anchored Representation Shaping for Pre-Trained Model-Based Continual LearningZhiming Xu, Huiyu Yi, Zhen-Hao Xie … Suorong YangarXiv
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    Layers Matter: Why Continual Learning Regularization Should Be Layer-AdaptiveBrian B. Moser, Ahmed Anwar, Tobias Christian Nauen … Andreas DengelarXiv
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    Memory-Bounded Continuation of Greedy Sampling for Continual Anomaly DetectionYoon Gyo Jung, Jaewoo Park, Kuan–Chuan Peng … OCTAVIA CAMPSarXiv
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    Compact feature distributions and refined pseudo labels for weakly supervised incremental semantic segmentationZilin Guo, Dongyue Wu, Changxin Gao, Nong SangPattern Recognition · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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    CD-IMM: A Bayesian non-parametric classifier for continual learningDaniele Castellana, Antonio CartaNeurocomputing · University of Florence · University of Pisa · +1
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    Mind the Context: Continual Learning of Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via Environmental-Social DisentanglementRafał Karpiński, Fethiye Irmak Doğan, Nikhil Churamani … Hatice GunesarXiv
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    SRANK: Towards Semantic-Aware Ranking-Based Evaluation for Continual Learning of Vision-Language ModelsSuvam Dey, Debarshi Brahma, Soma BiswasICIP · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
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    Sustaining Plasticity via Learnable Wavelet Activations in Continual LearningZeyang Zhang, Tieliang Gong, Junyan Lu, Weizhan ZhangarXiv
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    Task-Adaptive Sparse Update for Efficient Continual LearningTakuma Ishibashi, Hikari Otsuka, Junnosuke Suzuki … Masato MotomuraICIP · Institute of Science Tokyo
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    AWARe: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting via Activation-Weighted Adaptive REtentionJuncheng Liao, Jinfan Lv, Guoming Wang … Siliang TangarXiv
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    ADAPTIVE KNOWLEDGE REGULARIZATION FOR CONTINUAL LEARNING IN TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURESArsentii Kriukov, Yurii PushkarenkoRADIOELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS
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    BPG: Balancing Plasticity and Generalization for Domain Incremental LearningQiang Wang, Songlin Dong, Shaokun Wang … Yihong GongarXiv
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    Quantum Incremental Learning with Mixed State PrototypesYu Wu, Qianli Zhou, Xinyang Deng … Witold PedryczarXiv
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    Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual LearningJiahong Liu, Ming Shen, Xiaohao Liu … Irwin KingICML
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    Continual learning for autoregressive PDE surrogates under evolving physical regimesHamed Hemati, Binh Duong Nguyen, Stefan SandfeldMachine learning for computational science and engineering · Forschungszentrum Jülich · RWTH Aachen University
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    MEMTS: Internalizing Domain Knowledge via Parameterized Memory for Retrieval-Free Domain Adaptation of Time Series Foundation ModelsXiaoyun Yu, Li Fan, Xiangfei Qiu … Jilin HuKDD · East China Normal University · Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine · +3
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    Brain-Inspired Synergistic-Memory Prompt Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJiale Chen, Feng Xu, Xin Lyu … Hao TangInformation Fusion · Hohai University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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    Continual-GraphLLM: Dynamic Graph Large Language Model with Invariance Regularized Adaptive Multi-Scale ExpertsTianhang Wan, Xin Wang, Haibo Chen … Wenwu ZhuKDD · Tsinghua University · Alibaba Group (China)
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    TTMC: Brain-Inspired Test-Time Memory Calibration with Orthogonal Projection for Online Continual LearningYuyang Han, Ziyu Li, Diwei Su … Xia WuKDD · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +1
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    PrePrompt: Predictive Prompting for Class Incremental LearningLibo Huang, Xiangqi Li, Jiarui Zhao … Yongjun XuKDD · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computing Technology · +2
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    TRACE: Discovering Task-Specific Parameter via Adaptation-Aware Probing for Continual Fine-TuningXiaosong Han, Ke Chen, Xindi Dai … Renchu GuanKDD · Jilin University · Jilin Province Science and Technology Department · +3
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    Cognitive Bifurcation: Dual-Progressive Causal Diffusion with Hippocampal Memory for Continual Graph LearningJiahao Liang, Carl Yang, Haoran Yang … Kaixiang YangKDD · South China University of Technology · Emory University · +2
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    Collaborative Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Graph Domain Incremental LearningJialu Li, Yu Wang, Wanyu Lin, Pengfei ZhuKDD · Tianjin University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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    Continual Learning in TransitionZhiyan Hou, Dan Zhang, Tao Feng … Tat-Seng ChuaarXiv
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    FAT-TAG: Mitigating Forgetting in Task-Free Temporal Graph Class Incremental LearningJiyuan Feng, Zhao Liu, Dongyi Zheng … Qing LiaoKDD · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +1
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    FedFST: Mitigating Spectral Catastrophic Forgetting in Federated Graph Continual LearningHanyao Guo, Zihan Tan, Wenke Huang … Mang YeKDD · Wuhan University · Nanyang Technological University
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    G2LoRA: Gradient Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation Framework for Graph Continual Learning on Text-Attributed GraphsYuhan Wang, Yibo Ding, Yutong Ye … Jianxin LiKDD · Beihang University · Columbia University · +1
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    Lethe: Plasticity-aware Active Forgetting for Resource-Efficient On-Device Continual LearningHaibo Liu, Chenxin Mao, Zhenzhe Zheng … He HuangKDD · Soochow University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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    Self-Regulating Prompt Expansion for Continual LearningYiwen Wang, Diana Benavides‐Prado, Yun Sing KohKDD · University of Auckland · Queen Mary University of London
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    An active-learning framework for real-time depth perception from monocular vision streamsXiaorong Zeng, Weiqiang Chen, Peng Shi … Shuiwen ShenarXiv
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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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