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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
    Leveraging multi-modal and historical knowledge graphs for continual robot navigationLin Zhang, Longyue Qian, Ruitong Li … Wei ZhangVisual Intelligence · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Shandong University · +2
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    Language Models Need Sleep: Learning to Self-Modify and Consolidate MemoriesAli Behrouz, Farnoosh Hashemi, Adel Javanmard, Vahab MirrokniarXiv
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  3. 2026
    PHASER: Phase-Aware and Semantic Experience Replay for Vision-Language-Action ModelsZiyang Chen (3956366), Shaoguang Wang, Weiyu Guo … Yandong GuoarXiv
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  4. 2026
    Sparse Orthogonal Parameters Tuning for Continual LearningKun-Peng Ning, Hai-Jian Ke, Yuyang Liu … Yuan LiIJCV · Peking University Shenzhen Hospital · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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  5. 2026
    Training Prompt Matters: State-Adaptive Optimization for Robust Fine-TuningWenhang Shi, Yiren Chen, Shuqing Bian … Xiaoyong DuarXiv
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    Neuromorphic Federated Continual Learning: A Spiking Neural Network ApproachManh V. Nguyen, Liang Zhao, Shaoen WuInternational Wireless Communications and Mobile Computin… · Kennesaw State University
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    Don't Fool Me Twice: Adapting to Adversity in the Wild with Experience-Driven ReasoningNavin Sriram Ravie, Andrew Jong, Krrish Jain … Sebastian SchererarXiv
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  10. 2026
    On-Policy Replay for Continual Supervised Fine-TuningYan Chen, Taojie Zhu, Meng Zhang … Yizhi WangarXiv
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  11. 2026
    Active Continual Learning with Metaplastic Binary Bayesian Neural NetworksKellian Cottart, Théo Ballet, Djohan Bonnet, Damien QuerliozICML
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  12. 2026
    CLANE: Continual Learning of Actions on Neuromorphic Hardware from Event CamerasElvin Hajizada, Michael Neumeier, Edward Paxon Frady … Eyke HüllermeierarXiv
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  15. 2026
    Janus-LoRA: A Balanced Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual LearningCheng Chen, Pengpeng Zeng, Yuyu Guo … Jingkuan SongICML
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  16. 2026
    Random Dense Knowledge Distillation for Continual LearningJie Chu, Pei Liu, Tong Su … Zenglin ShiACM Transactions · Hefei University of Technology · Zhengzhou University
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    Energy-Structured Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual LearningLonghua Li, Lei Qi, Qi Tian, Xin GengICML
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  20. 2026
    TAAM:Inductive Graph-Class Incremental Learning with Task-Aware Adaptive ModulationJingtao Liu, Xi ZhangInternational Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiag… · University of Science and Technology of China
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  21. 2026
    SeqLoRA: Bilevel Orthogonal Adaptation for Continual Multi-Concept GenerationJavad Parsa, Enis Simsar, Amir Joudaki … André TeixeiraarXiv
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    Tunable MAGMAX: Preference-Aware Model Merging for Continual LearningKei Hiroshima, Kento Uchida, Shinichi ShirakawaICPR
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  24. 2026
    Continual Segmentation under Joint NonstationarityPrashant Pandey, Himanshu Kumar, Devineni Sri Venkatraya Chowdary, Brejesh LallICML
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  26. 2026
    Lifelong Learner: Discovering Versatile Neural Solvers for Vehicle Routing ProblemsShaodi Feng, Zhuoyi Lin, Jianan Zhou … Yew-Soon OngIEEE T-ITS · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +2
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  27. 2026
    Amorphous LiNbO3 memristors for nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing with metaplasticity-enabled learningMengting Dong, Ruirui Hu, Yi-Xiang Wang … Xiaodong PiNeuromorphic Computing and Engineering · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Hangzhou Dianzi University · +1
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  28. 2026
    Learning When to AdaptAli Zindari, Xiaowen Jiang, Rotem Mulayoff, Sebastian U. SticharXiv
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    MixSD: Mixed Contextual Self-Distillation for Knowledge InjectionJiarui Liu, Lechen Zhang, Yongjin Yang … Mona DiabarXiv
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    Randomized neural network with adaptive forward regularization for online task-free class incremental learningJunda Wang, Minghui Hu, Ning Li … Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanNeural Networks · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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  32. 2026
    CLARE: Continual Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models via Autonomous Adapter Routing and ExpansionRalf Römer, Y Zhang, Yuming Li, Angela P. SchoelligRA-L · Technical University of Munich
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    Continual Learning of Domain-Invariant RepresentationsPascal Janetzky, Tobias Schlagenhauf, Stefan FeuerriegelICML
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  34. 2026
    The organization of multiple motor memories.Daniel M. WolpertCurrent Opinion in Neurobiology · Allen Institute for Brain Science
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    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
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    Dynamic Prompt Synthesis Via Global Codebook Aggregation and Residual Compensation for Continual LearningYong Dai, Haijun Liu, Yingping Zhao, Jie YangInternational Symposium on Robotics, Artificial Intellige… · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · University of Science and Technology Liaoning
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    Shapley Neuron Values for Continual Learning: Which Neurons Matter Most?Mohammad Ali Vahedifar, Abhisek Ray, Qi ZhangICML
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    UIKG: New Uncertain-Dynamic Incremental Knowledge GraphsZhangcong Xu, Gumin Jin, Guangyao Wang, Li JChinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shenyang Aerospace University
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    ACE-LoRA: Adaptive Orthogonal Decoupling for Continual Image EditingYuehao Liu, Weijia Zhang, Xuanming Shang … Chao MaarXiv
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    Is One Score Enough? Rethinking the Evaluation of Sequentially Evolving LLM MemorySongwei Dong, Zihan Chen, Chengshuai Shi … Cong ShenarXiv
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    Understanding Imbalanced Forgetting in Rehearsal-Based Class-Incremental LearningAlberto Tamajo, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Rahman AttararXiv
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    A Framework for Addressing Catastrophic Forgetting and Noisy Labeling in Continual LearningZhonghe Wei, X Q Li, Hongsheng Yin … Jihang YinInternational Conference on Computer Supported Cooperativ… · China University of Mining and Technology · Northwest University · +2
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    Always Learning, Always Mixing: Efficient and Simple Data Mixing All The TimeMichael Y. Hu, Apurva Gandhi, Kyunghyun Cho … Pratyusha SharmaarXiv
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    Learning, Fast and Slow: Towards LLMs That Adapt ContinuallyRishabh Tiwari, Kusha Sareen, Lakshya A Agrawal … Devvrit KhatriarXiv
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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. 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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