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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
    Better Matching, Less Forgetting: A Quality-Guided Matcher for Transformer-based Incremental Object DetectionQirui Wu, Shizhou Zhang, De Cheng … Peng WangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Medrobotics (United States)
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  3. 2026
    Composition-Incremental Learning for Compositional GeneralizationZhen Li, Yuwei Wu, Chenchen Jing … Yunde JiaAAAI · Beijing Institute of Technology · Zhejiang University of Technology · +2
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  4. 2026
    Decomposing Prompts, Composing Actions: A Multi-Granularity Prompting Approach for Incremental Action LearningXinyi Cheng, Chenghao Xu, Xi Wang … Yanhua YangAAAI · Xidian University
  5. 2026
    E-Logic Prompt: Unified Energy-Logic Framework for Continual Visual Question AnsweringJiayao Tan, Tianle Liu, Fuyuan Hu … Liang WanAAAI · State Administration of Cultural Heritage · Suzhou University of Science and Technology
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  6. 2026
    L2-LoRA: Improving Low-Rank Adaptation with Layer-Specific RegularizationXiang Zhang, Rui Xie, Siyuan ZhangAAAI · Peking University
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  7. 2026
    Learning a Fix and Explore Framework for Continuous Generalized Category DiscoveryChunming Li, Shidong Wang, Haofeng ZhangAAAI · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Newcastle University
  8. 2026
    Learning from imperfect data: incremental learning and Few-shot LearningYaoyao LiuAAAI · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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  9. 2026
    Memory-efficient Continual Learning with Prototypical Exemplar CondensationMinh-Duong Nguyen, Thien-Thanh Dao, Le-Tuan Duy Nguyen … Kok-Seng WongarXiv
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  10. 2026
    Parameter Merging with Gradient-Guided Supermasks in Online Continual LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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  12. 2026
    Time Series Class-Incremental Learning via Confidence-guided Mask Distillation and Prototype-guided Contrastive LearningYu Liu, Haoqin Yang, Jinping Sui … Qi JiaAAAI · Dalian University of Technology · United States Naval Academy · +1
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    Vision-language Incremental Learning with Dual Class-individual MemoryFuhai Chen, Feng Zhang, Xiaoguang Ma … Xuri GeAAAI · Fuzhou University · Universidad del Noreste · +2
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  16. 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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  17. 2026
    PADP: progressive and adaptive data pruning for efficient incremental learningBiqing Duan, Di Liu, Zhenli He … Shengfa MiaoScientific Reports · Yunnan University · NTNU Samfunnsforskning
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  18. 2026
    XSkill: Continual Learning from Experience and Skills in Multimodal AgentsGuanyu Jiang, Zhaochen Su, Xiaoye Qu, Y. K. Catherine FungICML
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  20. 2026
    NeuroLoRA: Context-Aware Neuromodulation for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task AdaptationYuxin Yang, Haoran Zhang, Mingxuan Li … Weilin HuangarXiv
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  21. 2026
    ARROW: Augmented Replay for RObust World modelsAbdulaziz Alyahya, Abdallah Al Siyabi, Markus Ernst … Gideon KowadloTMLR
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  22. 2026
    Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry PreservationChiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hongliang LiIEEE TCSVT
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  23. 2026
    Reversible Lifelong Model Editing via Semantic Routing-Based LoRAHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Tommi Kärkkäinen … Fengyu CongarXiv
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  25. 2026
    Representation Finetuning for Continual LearningHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Tommi Kärkkäinen … Fengyu CongarXiv
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  26. 2026
    CORAL: Scalable Multi-Task Robot Learning via LoRA ExpertsYuankai Luo, Woping Chen, Tong Liang, Zhenguo LiarXiv
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  27. 2026
    MSSR: Memory-Aware Adaptive Replay for Continual LLM Fine-TuningYiyang Lu, Yu He, Jianlong Chen, Hongyuan ZhaarXiv
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  29. 2026
    OCL-SKD: Balancing plasticity and stability in online continual learning via self-knowledge distillationZheng Liu, Zhanyang Liu, Yike Liu … Jinfeng LiuNeurocomputing · Ningxia University · Beihang University · +1
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  31. 2023
    Teacher Agent: A Knowledge Distillation-Free Framework for Rehearsal-Based Video Incremental LearningShengqin Jiang, Yaoyu Fang, Haokui Zhang … Peng WangIJCV · Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Northwestern Polytechnical University · +3
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  32. 2026
    Causally Sufficient and Necessary Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental LearningZhen Zhang, Jielei Chu, Jiangtao Hu … Tianrui LiarXiv
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  33. 2026
    CGR: calibrating generative replay for exemplar-free class-incremental learningXingcheng Zhu, Kai Han, Xiaocheng Hu … Yang LiuMultimedia Systems · Jiangsu University
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  35. 2026
    Guided Prompt Evolution for Vision-Language Models AdaptationEnming Zhang, Jiayang Li, Yanlong Wang … Yang LiarXiv
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  36. 2026
    LCA: Local Classifier Alignment for Continual LearningTung Anh Tran, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Khoat ThanICLR
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  37. 2026
    Locally Linear Continual Learning for Time Series Based on VC-Theoretical Generalization BoundsYan V. G. Ferreira, Igor Barbosa Lima, Pedro H. G. Mapa S. … A. P. BragaTPAMI · Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais · University of Alberta
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  39. 2026
    Routing without ForgettingAlessio Masano, Giovanni Bellitto, Dipam Goswani … Concetto SpampinatoarXiv
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  41. 2026
    Grow, Don't Overwrite: Fine-tuning Without ForgettingDyah Adila, Hanna Mazzawi, Benoît Dherin, Xavier GonzalvoarXiv
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  42. 2026
    LUNCH: adaptive balancing of continual learning via hyperparameter uncertaintyQingyi Pan, Liyuan Wang, Jingyi Zhang, Jun ZhuInformation Sciences · Tsinghua University · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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    SPREAD: Subspace Representation Distillation for Lifelong Imitation LearningKaushik Roy, Giovanni D'urso, Nicholas Lawrance … Peyman MoghadamarXiv
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  45. 2026
    Vision-Language Efficient Tuning for Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multi-Modal LearningYaoming Wang, Yuchen Liu, Wenrui Dai … Hongkai XiongIJCV · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Huawei Technologies (China)
  46. 2026
    AtomicVLA: Unlocking the Potential of Atomic Skill Learning in RobotsLikui Zhang, Tao Tang, Zhihao Zhan … Xiaodan LiangarXiv
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  47. 2026
    AMR-CCR: Anchored Modular Retrieval for Continual Chinese Character RecognitionYuchuan Wu, Yinglian Zhu, Haiyang Yu … Xiangyang XuearXiv
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  48. 2026
    Gated Adaptation for Continual Learning in Human Activity RecognitionReza Rahimi Azghan, Gautham Krishna Gudur, Mohit Malu … Hassan GhasemzadehIEEE Internet of Things Journal
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  49. 2026
    Vision Transformers that Never Stop LearningCaihao Sun, Mingqi Yuan, S S Wang, Jiayu ChenarXiv
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  50. 2026
    Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Continual Learning: A Neural Tangent Kernel PerspectiveJingren Liu, Zhong Ji, Yunlong Yu … Xuelong LiTPAMI · Tianjin University · Zhejiang University · +3
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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 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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