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The foundational work on continual learning, 1980 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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    InTAct: Interval-based Task Activation Consolidation for Continual LearningPatryk Krukowski, Jan Miksa, Peter A. van der Helm … Przemysław SpurekarXiv
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    Coupled End-to-End Transfer Learning with Generalized Fisher InformationVineet Shrivastava, Nidhi Malhotra, Chhaya Sharma … Isha GuptaCVPR · Institute of Management Technology · Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences
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    Swin-NSPT: Null-Space Prompt Tuning for Continual Learning in Swin TransformersYunjie Han, Hui Li, Zhengmin Jiang … Jianxing LiuIEEE 6th International Conference on Computer, Big Data,… · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +5
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    REAL: Representation Enhanced Analytic Learning for Exemplar-free Class-incremental LearningRun He, Di Fang, Yizhu Chen … Huiping ZhuangKnowledge-Based Systems · South China University of Technology · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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    Dual-Attention based prompt generation and catalyzing for instance-wise continual learningYong Dai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang … Yaowei WangPattern Recognition · Shenzhen Polytechnic University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +5
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    Learning diverse and adaptive representations for continual learningMingyan Liu, Fei YeNeurocomputing · Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology · University Town of Shenzhen · +2
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    Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with Dynamic Gradient GuidanceLi, Songze, Gao, Mingyu, Su, Tonghua … Wang, ZhongjieCVPR
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    Continual learning with a predictive coding based classifierSenhui Qiu, Saugat Bhattacharyya, Damien Coyle, Shirin DoraApplied Soft Computing · University of Ulster · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · +2
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    CWPS: Efficient Channel-Wise Parameter Sharing for Knowledge TransferMingxuan Cui, Tao Wu, Xuewei Li … Xi LiTIP · Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · +2
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    WebCoach: Self-Evolving Web Agents with Cross-Session Memory GuidanceGenglin Liu, Shijie Geng, Sha Li … Tianyi LiuarXiv
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    Foundations of a Developmental Design Paradigm for Integrated Continual Learning, Deliberative Behavior, and ComprehensibilityZeki Doruk Erden, Boi FaltingsIEEE TETCI · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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    Neuro-Logic Lifelong LearningBowen He, Xiaoan Xu, Alper Kamil Bozkurt … Juncheng DongarXiv
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    Continual Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation via Meta-Contrastive Memory ReplayLin Zhou, Degen Huang, Junpeng Liu … Kaiyu HuangSpringer LNCS · Dalian University of Technology · Université de Montréal · +1
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    Teaching Prompts to Coordinate: Hierarchical Layer-Grouped Prompt Tuning for Continual LearningShengqin Jiang, T. Yung Kong, Yuankai Qi … Ming–Hsuan YangarXiv
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    Rethinking Class-Incremental Learning from a Dynamic Imbalanced Learning PerspectiveLeyuan Wang, Liuyu Xiang, Yunlong Wang … Zhaofeng HeIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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    Preserving Cross-Modal Consistency for CLIP-based Class-Incremental LearningHaoran Chen, H. Y. Xu, Micah Goldblum … Wu, ZuxuanarXiv
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    TT-LoRA MoE: Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Sparse Mixture-Of-ExpertsPradip Kunwar, Minh N. Vu, Maanak Gupta … Manish BhattaraiInternational Conference on Software Composition · Tennessee Technological University · Los Alamos National Laboratory · +1
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    Compact Memory for Continual Logistic RegressionYohan Jung, Hyungi Lee, Wenlong Chen … Mohammad Emtiyaz KhanNeurIPS
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    Rethinking Obscured Sub-Optimality in Analytic Learning for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningZijian Gao, Kele Xu, Xingxing Zhang … Huaimin WangIEEE TCSVT · National University of Defense Technology · Tsinghua University · +1
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    Hippocampal indexing alters the stability landscape of synaptic weight space allowing life-long learningOscar C. González, Ryan Golden, Erik Delanois … Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of Colorado Boulder · University of California San Diego · +3
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    CEM: A Data-Efficient Method for Large Language Models to Continue Evolving From MistakesHaokun Zhao, Jinyi Han, Jie Shi … Fei YuCIKM · Fudan University · East China Normal University · +1
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    Towards Robust Continual Test-Time Adaptation via Neighbor FiltrationTaki Hasan Rafi, Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Dong‐Kyu ChaeCIKM · Hanyang University · Liverpool John Moores University · +1
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    Mixtures of SubExperts for Large Language Continual LearningHaeyong Kang, Yoon, Hee Suk, Feng, Dahua, Yoo, Chang D.arXiv
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    Caption, Create, Continue: Continual Learning with Pre-trained Generative Vision-Language ModelsIndu Solomon, Aye Phyu Phyu Aung, Uttam Kumar, J. SenthilnathCIKM · International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +1
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    CDFFCIL: Comprehensive Framework for Data-Free Federated Class-Incremental LearningWei Liu, Zhaoyun Ding, Lailong Luo … Cheng ZhuInternational Conference on Big Data and Information Anal… · National University of Defense Technology
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    Hyperbolic Prompt Learning for Incremental Event Detection with LLMsXiujin Zhang, Wenxin Jin, Haotian Hong … Li SunCIKM · North China Electric Power University · Anhui University of Science and Technology · +2
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    TMEA: Task-Modularized Evolutionary Aggregation for Federated Continual LearningPan Wang, Gao Mt, Quan Wen … Yaohong ZhangInternational Conference on Big Data and Information Anal… · National University of Defense Technology
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    Learn More, Forget Less: A Gradient-Aware Data Selection Approach for LLMLiu, Yibai, Shihang Wang, Liu, Zeming … Yunhong WangarXiv
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    Class-aware prototype augmentation and decoupled feature distillation for class-incremental learningChengdong Wang, Yangjun Ou, Xianfang Tang … Rui YanPattern Recognition · Hefei University of Technology · Wuhan Textile University · +2
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    When Data Falls Short: Grokking Below the Critical ThresholdVaibhav Singh, Eugene Belilovsky, Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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    Pursuing Better Representations: Balancing Discriminability and Transferability for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningQi Li, Wei Wang, Hui Fan … Fei WenJournal of Imaging · National University of Defense Technology · Central South University of Forestry and Technology · +2
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    Class-Weighted Prompting for rehearsal-free class-incremental learningHong Ma, Shaofan Wang, Fuhao Wei … Baocai YinDisplays · Beijing University of Technology
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    Multi-modality integrated class incremental learning networks for 3D object recognitionYufei Zhang, Dongyun Lin, Xiao Zhang … Huiping ZhuangKnowledge-Based Systems · Nanyang Technological University · Wuyi University · +4
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    Online Continual Learning on Intel Loihi 2 via a Co-designed Spiking Neural NetworkElvin Hajizada, Danielle Rager, Timothy Shea … Michael DaviesarXiv
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    A theory of initialisation’s impact on specialisationDevon Jarvis, Sebastian Lee, Clémentine Carla Juliette Dominé … Stefano Sarao MannelliICLR · University of the Witwatersrand · Simons Foundation · +6
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    A Comparative Analysis of LLM Adaptation: SFT, LoRA, and ICL in Data-Scarce ScenariosBernd Bohnet, Rumen Dangovski, Kevin Swersky … Noah FiedelarXiv
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    Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in robotic manipulation via knowledge-compositional reinforcement learningWenzhang Liu, Wanyi Yao, Ke‐Ke Yang … Changyin SunNeurocomputing · Anhui University
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    Parameterized Prompt for Incremental Object DetectionZijia An, Boyu Diao, Ruiqi Liu … Yongjun XuarXiv
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    Bayesian continual learning and forgetting in neural networksDjohan Bonnet, Kellian Cottart, Tifenn Hirtzlin … Damien QuerliozNature Communications · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Université Paris-Saclay · +4
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    Humans and neural networks show similar patterns of transfer and interference during continual learningEleanor Holton, Lukas Braun, Jessica A. F. Thompson … Christopher SummerfieldNature Human Behaviour · Princeton University · University of Oxford · +1
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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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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