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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
    Sparse Autoencoders enable Robust and Interpretable Fine-tuning of CLIP modelsFabian Morelli, Arnas Uselis, Ankit Sonthalia, Seong Joon OharXiv
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    Task Regularized Hybrid Knowledge Distillation For Incremental Object DetectionTao Liu, Jinming ZhangInternational Seminar on Artificial Intelligence, Network… · Xinjiang University
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    UIKG: New Uncertain-Dynamic Incremental Knowledge GraphsZhangcong Xu, Gumin Jin, Guangyao Wang, Li JChinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC) · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shenyang Aerospace University
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    MeMo: Memory as a ModelRyan Wei Heng Quek, Sanghyuk Lee, Alfred Wei Lun Leong … Armando Solar-LezamaarXiv
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    Addressing catastrophic forgetting in class-incremental learning—a surveyJohn Bako, Jugal KalitaArtificial Intelligence Review · University of Colorado Colorado Springs
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    Dynamic nested hierarchies: self-evolving machine learning architectures for lifelong learningAkbar Anbar Jafari, Cagri Ozcinar, Gholamreza AnbarjafariFrontiers · University of Tartu · Estonian Business School
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    ACE-LoRA: Adaptive Orthogonal Decoupling for Continual Image EditingYuehao Liu, Weijia Zhang, Xuanming Shang … Chao MaarXiv
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    Is One Score Enough? Rethinking the Evaluation of Sequentially Evolving LLM MemorySongwei Dong, Zihan Chen, Chengshuai Shi … Cong ShenarXiv
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    Understanding Imbalanced Forgetting in Rehearsal-Based Class-Incremental LearningAlberto Tamajo, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Rahman AttararXiv
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    A Framework for Addressing Catastrophic Forgetting and Noisy Labeling in Continual LearningZhonghe Wei, X Q Li, Hongsheng Yin … Jihang YinInternational Conference on Computer Supported Cooperativ… · China University of Mining and Technology · Northwest University · +2
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    Always Learning, Always Mixing: Efficient and Simple Data Mixing All The TimeMichael Y. Hu, Apurva Gandhi, Kyunghyun Cho … Pratyusha SharmaarXiv
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    Scaling few-shot spoken word classification with generative meta-continual learningLouise Beyers, Batsirayi Mupamhi Ziki, Ruan van der MerwearXiv
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    Learning, Fast and Slow: Towards LLMs That Adapt ContinuallyRishabh Tiwari, Kusha Sareen, Lakshya A Agrawal … Devvrit KhatriarXiv
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    BabyDS: Visually Grounded Grammar Induction with Online Curriculum LearningArash Ashrafzadeh, Julian Hough, Arash EshghiLanguages · Heriot-Watt University · Swansea University
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    MIST: Reliable Streaming Decision Trees for Online Class-Incremental Learning via McDiarmid BoundPhu-Hoa Pham, Chi-Nguyen Tran, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy … Long Tran-ThanharXiv
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    Online Continual Learning with Dynamic Label HierarchiesXinrui Wang, Shao-Yuan Li, Bartłomiej Twardowski … Songcan ChenICML
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    PSM: Prompt specialization module for prompt-based continual learningJun Liu, Qinyue Tong, Zheming Lu, Ziqian LuComputer Vision and Image Understanding · Zhejiang University · Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
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    Stop Marginalizing My Dreams: Model Inversion via Laplace Kernel for Continual LearningPatryk Krukowski, Jacek Tabor, Przemysław Spurek … Łukasz StruskiarXiv
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    Unlocking Compositional Generalization in Continual Few-Shot LearningPhu-Quy Nguyen-Lam, Phu-Hoa Pham, Dao Sy Duy Minh … Long Tran-ThanharXiv
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    Joint sparse coding and temporal dynamics support context reconfigurationQianqian Shi, Yue Che, Faqiang Liu … Luping ShiarXiv
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    UFO: A Unified Flow-Oriented Framework for Robust Continual Graph LearningDanhui Zhang, Zhe Wang, Qing Qing … Renqiang LuoarXiv
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    FLAME: Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Multimodal Multi-Task LearningXing Han, Shravan Chaudhari, Tanvi Ranade … Suchi SariaarXiv
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    Lost or Hidden? A Concept-Level Forgetting in Supervised Continual LearningKatarzyna Filus, Kamil Faber, Roberto Corizzo, Christopher KananarXiv
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    Muon-OGD: Muon-based Spectral Orthogonal Gradient Projection for LLM Continual LearningBinghang Lu, Zheyuan Deng, Runyu Zhang … Xiaomin LiarXiv
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    Predicting Plasticity in Deep Continual Learning: A Theoretical PerspectiveJiuqi Wang, Jayanth Srinivasa, Claire Chen … Shangtong ZhangarXiv
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    Cross-Sample Relational Fusion: Unifying Domain Generalization and Class-Incremental LearningZhenghe Xie, Yan Wang, Hao Sun … Da-Wei ZhouIEEE Trans. Multimedia
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    CogniSNN: Enabling neuron-expandability, pathway-reusability, and dynamic-configurability in spiking neural networksYongsheng Huang, Peibo Duan, Yujie Wu … Mingkun XuNeural Networks · Northeastern University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +2
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    Preserving Foundational Capabilities in Flow-Matching VLAs through Conservative SFTTianyi Zhang, Shaopeng Zhai, Haoran Zhang … Qi ZhangarXiv
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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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