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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Hyperspherical semantic compensation of vision-language models for continual learningHongsheng Zhang, Zhong Ji, Chen Tang, Yanwei PangKnowledge-Based Systems · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +1
  2. 2026
    Leveraging Textual Semantic Guidance for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningYuqiao Xu, Hantao Yao, Lu Yu, Changsheng XuACM Transactions · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +1
  3. 2026
    Quadruplet Augmentation With Attribute and Structure Invariance for Online Continual LearningJiamin Wu, Shaofan Wang, Yanan Sun … Baocai YinMemberTPAMI · Beijing University of Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
  4. 2026
    Put the Space of LoRA Initialization to the Extreme to Preserve Pre-trained KnowledgePengwei Tang, Xiaolin Hu, Yong Liu … Debing ZhangAAAI · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Ministry of Education · +3
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  5. 2026
    Learning Unknowns Without Forgetting Knowns: Compositional and Bidirectional Low-Rank Adaptive Open-World Detection TransformerY. M. Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Chunqiang XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
  6. 2026
    Continual learning of multiple cognitive functions with a brain-inspired temporal development mechanismBing Han, feifei Zhao, Yinqian Sun … Yi ZengNational Science Review · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Institute of Automation · +2
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  7. 2026
    Spectral Disentanglement: Rank-Aware Task Adaptation for Rehearsal-free Continual Learning in LLMsHuanxuan Liao, Shizhu He, Yupu Hao … Kang LiuACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  8. 2026
    Towards Self-Evolving Agents: Enabling Autonomy through Interactive Experience RefinementCheng Yang, Xuemeng Yang, Licheng Wen … Haifeng LiACL · Central South University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +4
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  9. 2026
    Harmonizing the Past, Present, and Future: A Null-Space Constrained Region-Specific Method for Continual Learning in LLMsJinhui Chen, Shizhu He, Xingchang Yang … Jun ZhaoACL · Shandong Institute of Automation · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +3
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  10. 2026
    Miles: Metric Learning With Expandable Subspace for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningKai Jiang, Zisong Lin, Hongyuan Zhang … Xuelong LiTIP · Xidian University · University of Hong Kong · +1
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  11. 2026
    NExplore: Exploration with Neural Fields for Autonomous Scene Reconstruction.Zike Yan, Zijia Kuang, Yuetao Li … Hongbin ZhaTPAMI · Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
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 lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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