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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
    Continual Low-Rank Adaptation Via Cumulative Unified Optimization.Yue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI
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    Symbiosis-Inspired Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Object DetectionMingyue Zeng, De Cheng, Zhipeng Xu … Xinbo GaoICML
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    Gradient Decomposition and Alignment for Incremental Object DetectionWenlong Luo, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangICCV
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    EKPC: Elastic Knowledge Preservation and Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningHuai-Jie Wang, De Cheng, Ling-Feng He … Xin-Bo GaoInternational Journal of Computer Vision
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    Demystifying Catastrophic Forgetting in Two-Stage Incremental Object DetectorQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangICML
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    Visual Prompt Tuning in Null Space for Continual LearningYue Lu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangNeurIPS
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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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