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The foundational work on continual learning, 1991 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2024
    Hierarchical Orchestra of PoliciesThomas P Cannon, Özgür ŞimşekarXiv
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    Vocal Sandbox: Continual Learning and Adaptation for Situated Human-Robot CollaborationJennifer Grannen, Siddharth Karamcheti, Suvir Mirchandani … Dorsa SadighCoRL
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    CLOSER: Towards Better Representation Learning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJin-Yong Oh, Sungyong Baik, Kyoung Mu LeeECCV · Seoul National University · Hanyang University
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  7. 2024
    UNIKD: UNcertainty-Filtered Incremental Knowledge Distillation for Neural Implicit RepresentationMengqi Guo, Li Chen, Hanlin Chen, Gim Hee LeeECCV · National University of Singapore
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  8. 2024
    PCoTTA: Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Multi-Task Point Cloud UnderstandingJincen Jiang, Qianyu Zhou, Yuhang Li … Xuequan LuNeurIPS
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  9. 2024
    BeGin: Extensive Benchmark Scenarios and an Easy-to-use Framework for Graph Continual LearningJihoon Ko, Shinhwan Kang, Taehyung Kwon … Kijung ShinACM Transactions · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · International Graduate School of English
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  10. 2024
    Streaming Continual Learning for Unified Adaptive Intelligence in Dynamic EnvironmentsFederico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo LomonacoIEEE Intelligent Systems · Politecnico di Milano · University of Pisa
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  11. 2024
    Replay-Free Continual Low-Rank Adaptation with Dynamic MemoryHuancheng Chen, Jingtao Li, Weiming Zhuang … Lingjuan LyuarXiv
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  12. 2024
    Class Incremental Learning with Task-Specific Batch Normalization and Out-of-Distribution DetectionZhou, Zhiping, Xuchen Xie, Yiqiao Qiu … Ruixuan WangNeurocomputing
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  13. 2024
    MAGR: Manifold-Aligned Graph Regularization for Continual Action Quality AssessmentKanglei Zhou, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang … Xiaohui LiangECCV · Durham University · Beihang University · +2
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  14. 2024
    Category Adaptation Meets Projected Distillation in Generalized Continual Category DiscoveryGrzegorz Rypeść, Daniel Marczak, Sebastian Cygert … Bartłomiej TwardowskiECCV · Warsaw University of Technology · Gdańsk University of Technology · +1
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  15. 2024
    Incremental Learning of Retrievable Skills For Efficient Continual Task AdaptationDaehee Lee, Minjong Yoo, Woo Kyung Kim … Honguk WooNeurIPS
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  17. 2024
    Permutation Invariant Learning with High-Dimensional Particle FiltersAkhilan Boopathy, Aneesh Muppidi, Peggy Yang … Ila FietearXiv
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  19. 2024
    Learning Successor Features the Simple WayRaymond Chua, Arna Ghosh, Christos Kaplanis … Doina PrecupNeurIPS
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  20. 2025
    LoRA vs Full Fine-tuning: An Illusion of EquivalenceReece Shuttleworth, Jacob Andreas, Antonio Torralba, Pratyusha SharmaNeurIPS
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    Large Pre-Training Datasets Don't Always Guarantee Robustness after Fine-TuningJaedong Hwang, Brian Cheung, Zhang-Wei Hong … Ila FietearXiv
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  23. 2025
    Plastic Learning with Deep Fourier FeaturesAlex Lewandowski, Dale Schuurmans, Marlos C. MachadoICLR
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  24. 2024
    Vector Quantization Prompting for Continual LearningJiao Li, Qiuxia Lai, Yu Li, Qiang XuNeurIPS
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  25. 2024
    CP-Prompt: Composition-Based Cross-modal Prompting for Domain-Incremental Continual LearningYu Feng, Zhen Tian, Yifan Zhu … Meina SongACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  26. 2024
    Low-rank Prompt Interaction for Continual Vision-Language RetrievalW. B. Yan, Ye Wang, Lin Wang … Tao JinACM International Conference on Multimedia · Zhejiang University
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  28. 2024
    LLMs Can Evolve Continually on Modality for X-Modal ReasoningJiazuo Yu, Xiong, Haomiao, Pengfei Zhang … Long ChenNeurIPS
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  29. 2024
    Class Balance Matters to Active Class-Incremental LearningZhenhong Huang, Ze Chen, Yuanze Li … Wangmeng ZuoACM MM · Harbin Institute of Technology · Megvii (China) · +2
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  30. 2024
    Prior-free Balanced Replay: Uncertainty-guided Reservoir Sampling for Long-Tailed Continual LearningLei Liu, Li Liu, Yawen CuiACM International Conference on Multimedia · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · +3
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    Prompting Continual Person SearchPengcheng Zhang, Xiaohan Yu, Bai Xiao … Xin NingACM International Conference on Multimedia · Beihang University · Macquarie University · +2
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    Sustainable Self-evolution Adversarial TrainingWenxuan Wang, Chenglei Wang, Huihui Qi … Yanning ZhangACM International Conference on Multimedia · Northwestern Polytechnical University
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  33. 2024
    Improving Multimodal Large Language Models Using Continual LearningShikhar Srivastava, Md Yousuf Harun, Robik Shrestha, Christopher KananarXiv
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  34. 2024
    PUMA: Efficient Continual Graph Learning for Node Classification With Graph CondensationYilun Liu, Ruihong Qiu, Yanran Tang … Zi HuangTKDE · The University of Queensland
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    How to Continually Adapt Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Flexible Customization?Jiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Hongliu Li … Fahad Shahbaz KhanNeurIPS
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  37. 2025
    Closed-form merging of parameter-efficient modules for Federated Continual LearningRiccardo Salami, Pietro Buzzega, Matteo Mosconi … Simone CalderaraICLR
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    UnCLe: Benchmarking Unsupervised Continual Learning for Depth CompletionXien Chen, Gangopadhyay, Rit, Michael Chu … Alex WongarXiv
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  40. 2024
    Continual Learning on a Data DietElif Ceren Gok Yildirim, Murat Onur Yildirim, Joaquin VanschorenarXiv
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  41. 2025
    LiNeS: Post-training Layer Scaling Prevents Forgetting and Enhances Model MergingKe Wang, Nikolaos Dimitriadis, Alessandro Favero … Pascal FrossardICLR
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  42. 2025
    Exploring Forgetting in Large Language Model Pre-TrainingLiao, Chonghua, Ruobing Xie, Sun, Xingwu … Zhanhui KangACL
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  44. 2024
    Long Term Memory: The Foundation of AI Self-EvolutionXun Jiang, Feng Li, Han Zhao … Tianqiao ChenarXiv
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  46. 2024
    TS-ACL: Closed-Form Solution for Time Series-oriented Continual LearningJiaxu Li, Kejia Fan, Songning Lai … Huiping ZhuangarXiv
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  47. 2024
    NC2D: Novel Class Discovery for Node ClassificationYue Hou, X. R. Chen, He Zhu … Ke XuCIKM · Beihang University · Communication University of China
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  48. 2024
    PIP: Prototypes-Injected Prompt for Federated Class Incremental LearningM. Anwar Ma’sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Savitha Ramasamy … Ryszard KowalczykCIKM · University of South Australia · Institute for Infocomm Research
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  49. 2024
    Hybrid Memory Replay: Blending Real and Distilled Data for Class Incremental LearningJiangtao Kong, Jiacheng Shi, Gao, Ashley … Huajie ShaoarXiv
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  50. 2024
    SNAP: Stopping Catastrophic Forgetting in Hebbian Learning with Sigmoidal Neuronal Adaptive PlasticityTianyi Xu, Zheng, Patrick, Shiyan Liu … Isabeau Prémont-SchwarzarXiv
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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, and only papers with a PDF we can point you at, so every title opens the paper itself. 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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