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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
    Feedback-regulated dual-role memory consolidation for continual learning: a stability–plasticity framework inspired by hippocampo-cortical systems consolidationZhaojie Yu, Shengli Cao, Guohe Zhang, Peihua FengCognitive Neurodynamics · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications
  2. 2026
    StructAlign: Structured Cross-Modal Alignment for Continual Text-to-Video RetrievalShaokun Wang, Weili Guan, Jizhou Han … Liqiang NieSIGIR · Harbin Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · +2
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  3. 2026
    SCI-GR: Sequential Controllable Inpainting-Based Generative Replay For Class-Incremental Object DetectionNuohan Xue, Caixia Yan, Yi-Xiang Wang … Yudeng XinICASSP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · The University of Melbourne
  4. 2026
    Singular Value Fine-Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhiwu Wang, Yichen Wu, Renzhen Wang … Deyu MengIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · City University of Hong Kong
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  5. 2026
    We Need a More Robust Classifier: Dual Causal Learning Empowers Domain-Incremental Time Series ClassificationZhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Xuan Tang … Binwu WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Northeastern University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +2
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  6. 2026
    Dual-CBA: Improving Online Continual Learning via Dual Continual Bias Adaptors From a Bi-level Optimization PerspectiveHong Wang, Renzhen Wang, Yichen Wu … Deyu MengTPAMI · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Harvard University · +1
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  7. 2026
    Key-Value Pair-Free Continual Learner via Task-Specific Prompt-PrototypeHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Zhengji Li … Fengyu CongNeural Networks · University of Jyväskylä · National University of Singapore · +3
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  8. 2026
    Multi-Task Unified Domain Incremental Learning With Domain Difference AdaptersXiang Song, Yuhang He, Lin Peng, Yihong GongTIP · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  9. 2026
    Incremental Vision–Language Object Detection via Sparse Frequency TransformXiang Song, Ziye Yang, Yuhang He … Yihong GongTIP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +2
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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