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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. 2025
    Forget Less, Retain More: A Lightweight Regularizer for Rehearsal-Based Continual LearningLama Alssum, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Motasem Alfarra … Bernard GhanemTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Task-Agnostic Federated Continual Learning via Replay-Free Gradient ProjectionSeohyeon Cha, Huancheng Chen, Haris VikaloTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Continually Adding New Languages to Multilingual Language ModelsAbraham Toluwase Owodunni, Sachin KumarTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Holistic Continual Learning under Concept Drift with Adaptive Memory RealignmentAlif Ashrafee, Jedrzej Kozal, Micha l Woźniak, B. KrawczykTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Dynamic Mixture of Progressive Parameter-Efficient Expert Library for Lifelong Robot LearningYuheng Lei, Sitong Mao, Shunbo Zhou … Ping LuoTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Continual Learning on CLIP via Incremental Prompt Tuning with Intrinsic Textual AnchorsHaodong Lu, X. Zhang, Moore, Kristen … Dong GongTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    UltraEdit: Training-, Subject-, and Memory-Free Lifelong Editing in Language ModelsXiaojie Gu, Ziying Huang, Jia-Chen Gu, Kai ZhangTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Parameter Efficient Continual Learning with Dynamic Low-Rank AdaptationPrashant Bhat, Shakib Yazdani, Elahe Arani, Bahram ZonoozTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Proxy-Anchor and EVT-Driven Continual Learning Method for Generalized Category DiscoveryAlireza Fathalizadeh, R. Razavi-FarTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Memory-Modular Classification: Learning to Generalize with Memory ReplacementDahyun Kang, Ahmet İşcen, Eun-Byeol Jo … Cordelia SchmidTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    GOTHAM: Graph Class Incremental Learning Framework under Weak SupervisionA. Shahane, AP Prathosh, Sandeep KumarTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Continual learning via probabilistic exchangeable sequence modellingHanwen Xing, Christopher YauTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    From Offline to Online Memory-Free and Task-Free Continual Learning via Fine-Grained HypergradientsNicolas Michel, Maorong Wang, Jiangpeng He, Toshihiko YamasakiTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Unlocking [CLS] Features for Continual Post-TrainingMurat Onur Yildirim, Elif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Joaquin VanschorenTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Efficient Few-Shot Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsA. Panos, Rahaf Aljundi, Daniel Olmeda Reino, Richard TurnerTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Class Incremental Learning from First Principles: A ReviewNeil Ashtekar, Jingxi Zhu, Vasant HonavarTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
  18. 2025
    Before Forgetting, There's Learning: Representation Learning Challenges in Online Unsupervised Continual LearningCameron Ethan Taylor, S. M. Patil, Constantinos DovrolisTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Exploring the potential of Direct Feedback Alignment for Continual LearningSara Folchini, V. Arora, Sebastian GoldtTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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    Uncertainty-Based Experience Replay for Task-Agnostic Continual Reinforcement LearningAdrian Remonda, Cole Terrell, Eduardo Veas, Marc MasanaTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
  22. 2025
    Hard-Negative Prototype-Based Regularization for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningSeongbeom Park, Hyunju Yun, Daewon Chae … Jinkyu KimTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
  23. 2025
    Rethinking Memory in Continual Learning: Beyond a Monolithic Store of the PastYaqian Zhang, Bernhard Pfahringer, Eibe Frank, Albert BifetTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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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