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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
    Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDu-Zhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Xiuyi Chen … Dong YuIEEE TAI
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  2. 2025
    Exploring Stability-Plasticity Trade-Offs for Continual Named Entity RecognitionDu-Zhen Zhang, Chen-Xing Li, Jia-Hua Dong … Dong YuIEEE TASLP
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  3. 2025
    Enhancing Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with BranchLoRADu-Zhen Zhang, Yong Ren, Zhongzhi Li … Jinfeng BaiACL
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  4. 2025
    Information-Theoretic Complementary Prompts for Improved Continual Text ClassificationDuzhen Zhang, Yong Ren, Chen-Xing Li … Tie-Lin ZhangNeural Networks
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  5. 2025
    Lifelong Learning of Large Language Model Based Agents: A RoadmapJunhao Zheng, Chengming Shi, Xidi Cai … Qianli MaTPAMI
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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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