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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. 2025
    On the Design of Safe Continual RL Methods for Control of Nonlinear SystemsAustin Coursey, Marcos Quiñones-Grueiro, Gautam BiswasEuropean Control Conference (ECC) · Vanderbilt University · Integrated Software (United States)
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    Leveraging Lightweight Generators for Memory Efficient Continual LearningChristiaan Lamers, Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Thomas Bäck, Bas van SteinarXiv
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    Action Flow Matching for Continual Robot LearningAlejandro Murillo-González, Lantao LiuRobotics · Indiana University Bloomington
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    The Importance of Being Lazy: Scaling Limits of Continual LearningGraldi, Jacopo, Breccia, Alessandro, Lanzillotta, Giulia … Noci, LorenzoICML
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    Continual Defense Against Evolving Jailbreaks: A Multi-Agent Adversarial Framework with Linear Gating MoEQianqiao Xu, Feng LiuInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big… · National University of Defense Technology
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    Weight Factorization and Centralization for Continual Learning in Speech RecognitionUgan, Enes Yavuz, Pham, Ngoc-Quan, Waibel, AlexanderInterspeech
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    Prototypes as Anchors: Tackling Unseen Noise for online continual learningShao-Yuan Li, Yu-Xiang Zheng, Sheng-Jun Huang … Kangkan WangNeural Networks · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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    Task-Agnostic Experts Composition for Continual LearningLuigi Quarantiello, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo LomonacoHHAI Workshops
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    MEAL: A Benchmark for Continual Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningTristan Tomilin, Luka van den Boogaard, Samuel Garcin … Meng FangarXiv
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    Continual Learning for Generative AI: From LLMs to MLLMs and BeyondHaiyang Guo, Fanhu Zeng, Fei Zhu … Cheng-Lin LiuarXiv
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    SWE-Bench-CL: Continual Learning for Coding AgentsThomas Joshi, Chowdhury, Shayan, Fatih UysalarXiv
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    CSTA: Spatial-Temporal Causal Adaptive Learning for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental LearningTieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Chern Hong Lim … Weiyao LinIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Monash University Malaysia · +4
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    Visible-thermal cross-modality class-incremental learningXinjie Yao, Yingxue Wang, Yingxue Wang … Weihao LiExpert Systems with Applications · Tianjin University · Tianjin haihe hospital · +3
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    Dopamine in the Mitigation of Catastrophic Forgetting in Reinforcement LearningC. A. Rishikeshan, Janhavi ChaurasiaICML · Vellore Institute of Technology University
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    Online Versatile Incremental Learning via BiPromptHailun Zeng, Baopeng Zhang, Teng Zhu, Yuanzhouhan CaoInternational Symposium on Intelligent Robotics and Syste… · Beijing Jiaotong University
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    Continual Hyperbolic Learning of Instances and ClassesMelika Ayoughi, Mina Ghadimi Atigh, Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani … Paul GrotharXiv
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    Prototype-Based Continual Learning with Label-Free Replay Buffer and Cluster Preservation LossAgil Aghasanli, Yi Li, Plamen AngelovCVPR · Lancaster University
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    IL-NeRF: Incremental Learning for Neural Radiance Fields with Camera Pose AlignmentLetian Zhang, Ming Li, Chen Chen, Jie XuCVPR · Middle Tennessee State University · University of Central Florida · +1
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    Auto-Compressing NetworksVaggelis Dorovatas, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Alexandros PotamianosNeurIPS
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    FM-LoRA: Factorized Low-Rank Meta-Prompting for Continual LearningXiaobing Yu, Jin Yang, Xiao-Ming Wu … Xiaofeng LiuCVPR · Washington University in St. Louis · Yale University
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    LVP-CLIP: Revisiting CLIP for Continual Learning with Label Vector PoolYue Ma, Huantao Ren, Boyu Wang … Qinru QiuCVPR · Syracuse University
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    Enhancing Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Frozen Feature AugmentationShimou Ling, Shengkai Gan, Caoxin Wang … Hongliang LiCVPR · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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    Exemplar Masking for Multimodal Incremental LearningYi-Lun Lee, Chen-Yu Lee, Wei-Chen Chiu, Yi–Hsuan TsaiCVPR · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Google (United States) · +1
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    VISTA-CLIP: Visual Incremental Self-Tuned Adaptation for Efficient Continual Panoptic SegmentationD. Manjunath, Shrikar Madhu, Aniruddh Sikdar, Suresh SundaramCVPR · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore · Robert Bosch (China)
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    Incremental Learning Methods for Metaverse Intelligent Models with Distributed Data AwarenessBaowen Liu, Siya Xu, Shaoyong Guo … Zihan LiIEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Syst… · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology
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    Self-Expansion of Pre-trained Models with Mixture of Adapters for Continual LearningHuiyi Wang, Haodong Lu, Lina Yao, Dong GongCVPR · UNSW Sydney · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · +1
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    CL-LoRA: Continual Low-Rank Adaptation for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental LearningJiangpeng He, Zhihao Duan, Fengqing ZhuCVPR · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Purdue University West Lafayette
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    CL-MoE: Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Model with Dual Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question AnsweringTianyu Huai, Jie Zhou, Xingjiao Wu … Liang HeCVPR · East China Normal University · Shanghai Open University · +1
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    One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly DetectionXiaofan Li, Xin Tan, Zhuo Chen … Yuan XieCVPR · East China Normal University · Xiamen University · +2
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    Task-Agnostic Guided Feature Expansion for Class-Incremental LearningBowen Zheng, Da-Wei Zhou, Han-Jia Ye, De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Nanjing University
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    Dual Consolidation for Pre-Trained Model-Based Domain-Incremental LearningDawei Zhou, Zi-Wen Cai, Han-Jia Ye … De‐Chuan ZhanCVPR · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
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    Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language ModelsWu Bin, Wuxuan Shi, Jinqiao Wang, Mang YeCVPR · Wuhan University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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    Language Guided Concept Bottleneck Models for Interpretable Continual LearningLu Yu, Haoyu Han, Zhe Tao … Chris XuCVPR · Tianjin University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China · +2
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    BiLoRA: Almost-orthogonal Parameter Spaces for Continual LearningHao Zhu, Yifei Zhang, Junhao Dong, Piotr KoniuszCVPR · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Data61 · +1
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    LoRA Subtraction for Drift-Resistant Space in Exemplar-Free Continual LearningXuan Liu, Xiaobin ChangCVPR · Sun Yat-sen University
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    Adapter Merging with Centroid Prototype Mapping for Scalable Class-Incremental LearningTakuma Fukuda, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko KawamotoCVPR · Chiba University · Zuse Institute Berlin
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    Rethinking Query-Based Transformer for Continual Image SegmentationYuchen Zhu, Shi Cheng, Dingyou Wang … Sibei YangCVPR · ShanghaiTech University · Wuhan University
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    Think Small, Act Big: Primitive Prompt Learning for Lifelong Robot ManipulationY. Lawrence Yao, Siao Liu, Haoming Song … Dong WangCVPR · ShangHai JiAi Genetics & IVF Institute · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · +2
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    FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene UnderstandingThanh-Dat Truong, Utsav Prabhu, Bhiksha Raj … Khoa LuuCVPR · Google (United States) · Carnegie Mellon University · +2
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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. 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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