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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
    Hyperspherical semantic compensation of vision-language models for continual learningHongsheng Zhang, Zhong Ji, Chen Tang, Yanwei PangKnowledge-Based Systems · Tianjin University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +1
  2. 2026
    Collaborative Knowledge Extraction and Integration for Graph Domain Incremental LearningJialu Li, Yu Wang, Wanyu Lin, Pengfei ZhuKDD · Tianjin University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  3. 2026
    SD2-SNN: Self-distillation and structural decomposition framework for SNNs in continual learningZhenhao Xie, Xia Xiao, Hongsheng Zhang … Zhong JiNeural Networks · Tianjin University
  4. 2026
    Elastic Multi-Gradient Descent for Parallel Continual LearningFan Lyu, Wei Feng, Yuepan Li … Liang WangTPAMI · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Tianjin University · +2
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  5. 2026
    Bias Calibration for Semi-Supervised Continual LearningZhong Ji, Zhanyu Jiao, Deyu Miao, Chen TangSensors · Tianjin University
  6. 2026
    Class-Domain Incremental Learning on Graphs via Disentangled Knowledge DistillationQin Tian, Chen Zhao, Xintao Wu … Wenjun WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Tianjin University · Baylor University · +2
  7. 2026
    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  8. 2026
    Incomplete cross-modality class-incremental learning in visible-thermal recognitionXinjie Yao, Yanxian Bi, Yu Wang … Qinghua HuPattern Recognition · Kunming University of Science and Technology · Tianjin University · +5
  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 2026
    Multi-Stage Knowledge Integration of Vision-Language Models for Continual LearningHongsheng Zhang, Zhong Ji, Jingren Liu … Jungong HanTIP · Tianjin University · Tsinghua University
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  12. 2026
    Dual Domain-Attribute Learning Framework With Asynchronous Adapters for Continual Test-Time AdaptationYuntong Tian, Kang Li, Tianyang He … Wei FengTIP · Tianjin University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +1
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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