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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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  2. 2026
    Dual-Stage Invariant Continual Learning under Extreme Visual SparsityRangya Zhang, Jiaping Xiao, Lu Bai … Mir FeroskhanarXiv
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  3. 2026
    HAD: Heterogeneity-Aware Distillation for Lifelong Heterogeneous LearningXuerui Zhang, Xuehao Wang, Zhan Zhuang … Yu ZhangCVPR
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  4. 2023
    A Parameter-free Adaptive Resonance Theory-based Topological Clustering Algorithm Capable of Continual LearningNaoki Masuyama, Takanori Takebayashi, Yusuke Nojima … Stefan WermterNeural Computing and Applications · Osaka Prefecture University · University of Malaya · +2
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  5. 2026
    Few-shot class-incremental learning based on prompt guidance and multimodal fusionHaoming Fang, Haonan Cai, Keming Mao … Xinlu XiaoKnowledge-Based Systems · Northeastern University · China Mobile (China)
  6. 2026
    Balanced Online Class-Incremental Learning via Dual ClassifiersShunjie Wen, Thomas Heinis, Dong-Wan ChoiACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing · Inha University · Imperial College London
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  8. 2026
    G-Scaler: Graph few-shot class-incremental learning via structural coupling and elegant shift rectificationBin Wang, Boxiang Tao, Hongbo Dou … Lin LuoNeurocomputing · China University of Petroleum, East China
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  10. 2026
    Structural Abstraction as an Inductive Bias for Non-Stationary Language Model TrainingElnaz Rahmati, Nona Ghazizadeh, Zhivar Sourati … Morteza DehghaniarXiv
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  11. 2026
    Training constrains neural routes to knowledge assemblyQiyao Wang, Compton French, Pooja Bansiya … Stephanie NellibioRxiv · Occidental College
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  12. 2026
    GAIN: Global-Atomic INteraction Graph for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningFan Lyu, Linglan Zhao, Changli Liu … Liang WangIEEE TCSVT · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +6
  13. 2026
    KSS-MoE: Knowledge Space Synergy Framework in Mixture of Experts for Continual Visual Instruction TuningLingyun Song, Ziyao Chen, Kang Pan … Xuequn ShangAAAI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · San Francisco Bay University · +1
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  16. 2026
    Learning Adaptive and Expandable Mixture Model for Continual LearningFei Ye, yongcheng zhong, Qihe Liu … Shijie ZhouAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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  17. 2026
    Online Cross-Modal Hashing with Expanding Label SpaceWentao Fan, Chao Zhang, Chunlin Chen, Huaxiong LiAAAI · Nanjing University
  18. 2026
    PAL: Prompting Analytic Learning with Missing Modality for Multi-Modal Class-Incremental LearningXianghu Yue, Yiming Chen, Xueyi Zhang … Haizhou LiPattern Recognition · Tianjin University · National University of Singapore · +4
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  19. 2026
    Rep Deep & Machine Learning: Exemplar-Free Continual Video Action Recognition via Slow-Fast Collaborative LearningXueyi Zhang, Jianhua Zhang, Zheng Li … Huiping ZhuangAAAI · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4
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  20. 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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  21. 2026
    Decomposing Prompts, Composing Actions: A Multi-Granularity Prompting Approach for Incremental Action LearningXinyi Cheng, Chenghao Xu, Xi Wang … Yanhua YangAAAI · Xidian University
  22. 2026
    Learning from imperfect data: incremental learning and Few-shot LearningYaoyao LiuAAAI · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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  23. 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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  25. 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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  26. 2026
    XSkill: Continual Learning from Experience and Skills in Multimodal AgentsGuanyu Jiang, Zhaochen Su, Xiaoye Qu, Y. K. Catherine FungICML
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  27. 2026
    ARROW: Augmented Replay for RObust World modelsAbdulaziz Alyahya, Abdallah Al Siyabi, Markus Ernst … Gideon KowadloTMLR
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  28. 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
  29. 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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  30. 2026
    Causally Sufficient and Necessary Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental LearningZhen Zhang, Jielei Chu, Jiangtao Hu … Tianrui LiarXiv
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  31. 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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  33. 2026
    LCA: Local Classifier Alignment for Continual LearningTung Anh Tran, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, Khoat ThanICLR
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  34. 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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  35. 2026
    Routing without ForgettingAlessio Masano, Giovanni Bellitto, Dipam Goswani … Concetto SpampinatoarXiv
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  36. 2026
    Grow, Don't Overwrite: Fine-tuning Without ForgettingDyah Adila, Hanna Mazzawi, Benoît Dherin, Xavier GonzalvoarXiv
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  37. 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)
  38. 2026
    Vision Transformers that Never Stop LearningCaihao Sun, Mingqi Yuan, S S Wang, Jiayu ChenarXiv
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  40. 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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  41. 2026
    SCOPE: Scene-Contextualized Incremental Few-Shot 3D SegmentationVishal Thengane, Zhaochong An, Tianjin Huang … Xiatian ZhuarXiv
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    Sculpting Margin Penalty: Intra-Task Adapter Merging and Classifier Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningLiang Bai, Hong Song, J. W. Li … Jian YangIEEE TCSVT · Beijing Institute of Technology
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  44. 2026
    CGL: Advancing Continual GUI Learning via Reinforcement Fine-TuningZhenquan Yao, Zitong Huang, Yihan Zeng … Wangmeng ZuoCVPR
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    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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    AutoSkill: Experience-Driven Lifelong Learning via Skill Self-EvolutionYutao Yang, Junsong Li, Qianjun Pan … Liang HearXiv
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    Continual Learning Through the Lens of Adaptive Filtering: A mathematical tutorialLiangzu Peng, René VidalIEEE Signal Processing Magazine · University of Pennsylvania
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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