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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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  1. 2026
    NeuMoSync: End‑to‑End Neuromodulatory Control for Plasticity and Adaptability in Continual LearningSeyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani, Khashayar Khajavi, Wesley Chung … Mo ChenTMLR
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  2. 2026
    Self-adaptive Low-Rank Adaptation for Class-Incremental LearningYiming Song, Qiqi Duan, Lijun Sun … Yuhui ShiSpringer LNCS · Southern University of Science and Technology · Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics · +3
  3. 2026
    A lightweight and reliable continual learning framework for lip-readingZhixue Chen, Changyan Zheng, Yakun Zhang … Erwei YinDisplays · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Academy of Military Medical Sciences · +2
  4. 2026
    Research on anti-forgetting training strategies for open-vocabulary object detection systemsYujia He, Jianshe Dong, Jiayu LinICCV · Tianjin University of Technology and Education
  5. 2026
    Counterfactual distribution intervention for few-shot class-incremental learningJicheng Yuan, Wenfa Li, Lusi Li … Xin NingKnowledge-Based Systems · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Semiconductors · +2
  6. 2026
    TriP: A triple-prompt framework aligning pre-training and class-incremental objectives in continual graph learning.Can-Ming Cui, Hui-yu Zhou, Pei-Yuan Lai, Chang‐Dong WangNeural Networks · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health and Family Planning · +1
  7. 2026
    Dream2Learn: Structured Generative Dreaming for Continual LearningSalvatore Calcagno, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri … Giovanni BellittoIJCV · University of Catania
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  8. 2026
    Spontaneous emergence of context-dependent statistical learning in humans and neural networksFleming Peck, Hongjing Lu, Jesse RissmaniScience · University of California, Los Angeles · Neurobehavioral Systems
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  9. 2026
    The Grokked Illusion: True Equilibrium Mitigates Catastrophic ForgettingXiaotian Zhang, Lai Shun Chan, Yue Shang … Ge ZhangarXiv
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  12. 2026
    SPGNet: Spectral Prototype Generation for balancing the memory-structure dilemma in graph continual learningYanfeng Sun, Binbin Chen, Shaofan WangDisplays · Beijing University of Technology
  13. 2026
    MemSFT: Mitigating Alignment Tax with an External Parametric MemoryJiarui Wang, Xiang Shi, Jiaqi Cao … Zhouhan LinarXiv
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  14. 2026
    Metaplasticity as adaptive gradient preconditioning for incremental learningIsabelle Aguilar, Zayn Andre Zainal, Omid KaveheiarXiv
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  15. 2026
    Bi-Compatible Task-Agnostic Feature Augmentation for Expansion-Based Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Zijun Shen, Da-Wei Zhou … De‐Chuan ZhanIJCV · Nanjing University
  16. 2026
    In Situ Training of Implicit Neural Compressors for Scientific Simulations via Sketch-Based RegularizationCooper Simpson, Stephen Becker, Alireza DoostanJournal of Computational Physics · University of Colorado Boulder · University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory · +2
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    Adaptive Multi-Horizon Reinforcement LearningManoosh Samiei, Doina Precup, Paul MassetarXiv
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  21. 2026
    Prototype Replay for Cold-Start Online Class-Incremental Learning in Spiking NetworksFatima Tuz Zohora, Dhireesha KudithipudiInternational Conference on Neuromorphic Systems · The University of Texas at San Antonio
  22. 2026
    Sleep-Inspired Replay-Driven Online Temporal Learning with Memristive Neuromorphic Hardware for Edge SystemsSree Nirmillo Biswash Tushar, Sk. Hasibul Alam, Miranda Gonzales … Garrett S. RoseInternational Conference on Neuromorphic Systems · University of Tennessee at Knoxville · The University of Texas at San Antonio
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  25. 2026
    Continual Evolution Strategies in Control TasksNICOLA PITZALIS, Eleni Nisioti, Antonio Carta … Andrea CossuGenetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion · University of Pisa · IT University of Copenhagen
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  26. 2026
    Dynamic Elastic Weight Consolidation for Continual Learning in Spiking Neural NetworksJunxiu Liu, Puyang Li, Qiang Fu … Xue OuyangSpringer LNCS · Guangxi Normal University
  27. 2026
    COvolve: Adversarial Co-Evolution of Large-Language-Model-Generated Policies and Environments via Two-Player Zero-Sum GameAlkis Sygkounas, Rishi Hazra, Andreas Persson … Amy LoutfiGenetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference · Örebro University
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  28. 2026
    Multi-Faceted Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding for Semantic-Aware Link PredictionJing Qi, Yuxiang Wang, Zhiyuan Yu … Tianxing WuSIGIR · Hangzhou Dianzi University · Xidian University · +1
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  29. 2026
    Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Computer Vision: Methods, Benchmarks, and Future DirectionsSarthak Kumar Maharana, Shambhavi Mishra, Yunbei Zhang … Yunhui GuoTMLR
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  30. 2026
    Learning Probabilistic Prompt for Continual LearningHye-Kang Park, Sanghoon Lee, Geon Lee … Bumsub HamarXiv
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  31. 2026
    To Retain or to Adapt? Generalizing Continual LearningGiulia Lanzillotta, Mandana Samiei, Doina Precup … Claire VernadearXiv
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  32. 2026
    ORACIL: Conflict-Graph-Based Order-Robust Analytic Class-Incremental LearningGuanjie Wang, Hongyu Sun, Weiwei Li, Yanhua DongElectronics · Jilin Normal University
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    Sample-Aware Knowledge Association and Enhancement for Open-Vocabulary Continual LearningZhilin Zhu, Zhiheng Ma, Yabin Wang … Xiaopeng HongIJCV · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory · +2
  38. 2026
    Challenges of Explainability in Continual Learning for Time Series ForecastingQuentin Besnard, Emmanuel Doumard, Nicolas Labroche … Nicolas RinguetEDBT/ICDT Workshops · Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India · 3D Technology Laboratories (United States) · +1
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  39. 2026
    GE-PEFT: Gated Expandable Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Continual LearningJanna Omeliyanenko, Andreas Hotho, Daniel SchlörMachine Learning · University of Würzburg · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
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  40. 2026
    Rosetta: Composable Native Multimodal PretrainingXiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang … Ping TanarXiv
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  42. 2026
    Shift-level regulated continual test-time adaptation frameworkRui Su, Hang Xu, Wendong Zheng … Wenjian WangData Mining and Knowledge Discovery · Shanxi University
  43. 2026
    Wake up for Touch! Mask-isolated Tactile Alignment Learning in MLLMsYoonhyung Park, Minji Kim, Sungwon Moon, Jiyoung LeearXiv
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    ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for RoboticsRunyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou … Guanzhi WangarXiv
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    Hierarchical learning creates invariant schema within plastic neural networks.James T. Elder, Jie Zheng, Lydia B. Shimelis … Milo M. LinJournal of Computational Neuroscience · Center for Systems Biology · The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · +6
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  47. 2026
    Mitigating Domain Shift via Domain-Invariant Representation Learning in Domain-Incremental LearningMin-Taek Lim, Joo Hyun Lee, Junsu Kim, Yu-Rang ParkJournal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    Sleep as a system-level resilience mechanism in complex dynamic networks: Insights from biological and artificial systemsL Yang, C T Lin, Haohong Li, Xiaohui WangBrain medicine : · University of Science and Technology of China · Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry · +1
  49. 2026
    Convergence of Continual Learning in Homogeneous Deep NetworksMatan Schliserman, Gon Buzaglo, Itay Evron, Daniel SoudryCOLT
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  50. 2026
    Eliciting CLIP's intrinsic attribute knowledge through a dual-cache guided mechanism for class-incremental learningShengcheng Ye, Ziyi Wang, Yaomin Huang … Guixu ZhangKnowledge-Based Systems · East China Normal University
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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