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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
    Keep the General, Inject the Specific: Structured Dialogue Fine-Tuning for Knowledge Injection without Catastrophic ForgettingYijie Hong, Xiaofei Yin, Xinzhong Wang … Sufeng Duan2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  2. 2026
    Multimodal Deepfake Detection with Quantum State Inspired Analytic Incremental Adaptability LearningJianbin Ye, Man Xiao, Bo Liu … Huaimin Wang2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · National University of Defense Technology
  3. 2026
    STEP: Stable Gradient Projection for Continual LearningLonglong Zhai, Jiao Tian, Feng Yan … Panpan Zheng2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Xinjiang University · Ocean University of China
  4. 2026
    Text-Guided Prototype Replay and Classifier Guidance for Incremental Few-Shot Semantic SegmentationLuofeng Zhang, Shengzhe You, Qian Shao … Fei Gao2026 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval · Zhejiang University of Technology · Zhejiang 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. 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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