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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
    Reinforced Interactive Continual Learning via Real-time Noisy Human FeedbackYutao Yang, Jie Zhou, Junsong Li … Liang HeExpert Systems with Applications · East China Normal University · Shanghai Xuhui Central Hospital
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  2. 2026
    PromptCIL: Feature-Guided Prompting for Audio-Visual Class-Incremental LearningAditya Kumar Singh, Rini Smita Thakur, Parinita Nema, Vinod K. KurmiExpert Systems with Applications · Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
  3. 2026
    HM3-VLM: Hybrid Magnitude-Max Merging for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Visual Speech RecognitionChangyan Zheng, Zhixue Chen, Liguo Xu … Jibin YangExpert Systems with Applications · Academy of Military Medical Sciences · Weifang University · +2
  4. 2026
    FORECASS: Adaptive and forgetting-resilient continual unsupervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentationBaqar Abbas, Abderrazak Chahi, Yassine RuichekExpert Systems with Applications · Université de technologie de belfort-montbéliard
  5. 2026
    Adaptive memory replay for plasticity-aware edge continual learningP P Zhang, Jie Yang, Yong Yao … Yanping ChenExpert Systems with Applications · Guizhou University · Chengdu Institute of Information Technology (China)
  6. 2026
    EA: Elastic multi-level anchoring-based generative approach for federated class-incremental learningWanxin Wu, Gang Li, Lixin Liu … Jianfeng ZhaoExpert Systems with Applications · Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology · Wuhan University of Technology · +1
  7. 2026
    Knowledge-aware replay for multi-label class-incremental learningChengtai Cao, Xinhong Chen, Qun Song … Jianping WangExpert Systems with Applications · City University of Hong Kong · Nanyang Technological University · +1
  8. 2026
    Beyond catastrophic forgetting: A continual learning-driven multi-modal fusion model for saliency prediction in dynamic scenesNana Zhang, Yi-Xiang Wang, Dandan Zhu … Guangtao ZhaiExpert Systems with Applications · Donghua University · Tongji University · +1
  9. 2026
    Image-point class incremental learning via masked rendering and Probabilistic prototype modelingChao Qi, Jianqin Yin, Ren Zhang, Jialu GuExpert Systems with Applications · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  10. 2026
    SEDLA: Feature-incremental learning with deep neural networks for functional regressionYujing Shen, Bin Zou, Yude Bu, Yang ZhouExpert Systems with Applications · Shandong University · Hubei University · +1
  11. 2026
    CL4DEE: A continual learning framework for document-level event extraction with mixture-of-expertsJunru Liao, Haoran Wang, Weimin Cheng, Yatian ShenExpert Systems with Applications · Henan University of Technology
  12. 2026
    Emotion-augmented continual learning for empathic robot behaviorYuxuan Zhao, Tongwei Zhang, Siqi Liu … Wei WuExpert Systems with Applications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
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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