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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
    TKRL: Targeted Knowledge Rectification Learning Against Teacher-Originated Defects in Domain Continual SegmentationZhanshi Zhu, Wenjian Gu, Xiangyu Li … Shuo LiIEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics · Harbin Institute of Technology · Northeast Forestry University · +1
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    Optimal L2 Regularization in High-dimensional Continual Linear RegressionGilad Karpel, Edward Moroshko, Ran Levinstein … Itay EvronarXiv
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    Sparse Adapter Fusion for Continual Learning in NLPMin Zeng, Xi Chen, Haiqin Yang, Yike GuoEACL
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  5. 2026
    Online label aggregation with incomplete crowd responsesYuyang Liu, Haoyu Liu, Runze Wu … Changjie FanInformation Sciences · Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · NetEase (China) · +1
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    Fisher-Orthogonal Projected Natural Gradient Descent for Continual LearningIshir Garg, Neel Kolhe, Andy Peng, Rohan GopalamarXiv
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    Text-Prompted Prompt Generator with Uncertainty Regularization for Rehearsal-Free Class-Incremental LearningShaofan Wang, Fuhao Wei, Hong Ma … Baocai YinACM Transactions · Beijing University of Technology
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    Online Continual Learning for Time Series: a Natural Score-driven ApproachEdoardo Urettini, Daniele Atzeni, Ioanna-Yvonni Tsaknaki, Antonio CartaarXiv
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    STAER: Temporal Aligned Rehearsal for Continual Spiking Neural NetworkMatteo Gianferrari, Omayma Moussadek, Riccardo Salami … Simone CalderaraICPR
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    MERGETUNE: Continued fine-tuning of vision-language modelsWenqing Wang, Da Li, Xiatian Zhu, Josef KittlerICLR
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    Dynamic Memory Updating in RAG: Lifelong Learning and AdaptationSivarama Krishna Akhil KoduriInternational Journal of Innovative Science and Research…
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  16. 2025
    The AI Hippocampus: How Far are We From Human Memory?Zixia Jia, Jiaqi Li, Yipeng Kang … Song-Chun ZhuTMLR
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    Ability Transfer and Recovery via Modularized Parameters LocalizationSongyao Jin, Kun Zhou, Wenqi Li … Biwei HuangarXiv
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    Beyond Transfer Accuracy: Mechanism-Guided Controlled Adaptation for Low-Resource LanguagesKhumaisa Nur'aini, Ayu Purwarianti, Alham Fikri Aji, Derry WijayaarXiv
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  21. 2026
    Incremental Online Learning of Randomized Neural Network With Forward RegularizationJunda Wang, Minghui Hu, Ning Li … Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanTPAMI · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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  22. 2023
    Adapter-RL: Adaptation of Any Agent Using Reinforcement LearningYizhao Jin, Greg Slabaugh, Simon LucasIEEE Transactions · Queen Mary University of London
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    Key-Value Pair-Free Continual Learner via Task-Specific Prompt-PrototypeHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Zhengji Li … Fengyu CongNeural Networks · University of Jyväskylä · National University of Singapore · +3
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  30. 2026
    LDTC: Lifelong deep temporal clustering for multivariate time seriesZhi Wang, Yanni Li, Pingping Zheng, Yiyuan JiaoarXiv
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    Emotion-augmented continual learning for empathic robot behaviorYuxuan Zhao, Tongwei Zhang, Siqi Liu … Wei WuExpert Systems with Applications · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
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    MemRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic MemoryShengtao Zhang, Jiaqian Wang, Ruiwen Zhou … Muning WenarXiv
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    Experimental demonstration of quantum continual learning with superconducting qubitsChuanyu Zhang, Zhide Lu, Liangtian Zhao … Chao Songnpj Quantum Information · Zhejiang University · ShangHai JiAi Genetics & IVF Institute · +7
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    Lifelong Learning of Large Language Model Based Agents: A RoadmapJunhao Zheng, Chengming Shi, Xidi Cai … Qianli MaTPAMI · South China University of Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +2
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    ELLA: Efficient Lifelong Learning for Adapters in Large Language ModelsShristi Das Biswas, Yue Zhang, Anwesan Pal … Kaushik RoyEACL
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    Forget Less by Learning Together through Concept ConsolidationArjun Ramesh Kaushik, Naresh Kumar Devulapally, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande … Venu GovindarajuWACV
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    Exploring the Potential of Class-Specific Encoding for Few-Shot Object DetectionWei Zhou, Zongling Li, Shu Hu … Xin WangIEEE TETCI · Chengdu University of Information Technology · Purdue University West Lafayette · +3
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    Forget Less by Learning from Parents Through Hierarchical RelationshipsArjun Ramesh Kaushik, Naresh Kumar Devulapally, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande … Venu GovindarajuAAAI
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    KG-AsyncFed:Knowledge-sensitivity and generative replay synergized asynchronous federated continual learning frameworkShaohua Cao, Ge Shen, Xuyang Yuan … W. ZhangComputer Networks · China University of Petroleum, East China · Southwest Jiaotong University · +1
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    DeSTA2.5-Audio: Toward General-Purpose Large Audio Language Model With Self-Generated Cross-Modal AlignmentK C Lu, Zhehuai Chen, Szu‐Wei Fu … Hung-yi LeeIEEE Transactions · National Taiwan University · National Taipei University · +2
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  44. 2023
    Continual Instruction Tuning for Large Multimodal ModelsJinghan He, Haiyun Guo, Kuan Zhu … Jinqiao WangTIP · Shandong Institute of Automation · Institute of Automation
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  45. 2026
    A Review of Continual Learning in Edge AIBeining Wu, Zihao Ding, Jun HuangIEEE Transactions · South Dakota State University
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    From Storage to Experience: A Survey on the Evolution of LLM Agent Memory MechanismsJinghao Luo, Yuchen Tian, Chuxue Cao … Jing MaACL · South China Normal University · Hong Kong Baptist University · +3
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    IAP: Improving Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models via Instance-Aware PromptingHao Fu, Hanbin Zhao, Jiahua Dong … Hui QianTIP · Zhejiang University of Science and Technology · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · +1
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    Scalable and Efficient Continual Learning from Demonstration via Hypernetwork-generated Stable Dynamics ModelSayantan Auddy, Jakob Hollenstein, Matteo Saveriano … Justus PiaterIEEE TCDS · Technische Universität Berlin · Universität Innsbruck · +2
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    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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    PIC-CMH: Efficient Prompt-Infused Continual Cross-Modal HashingFengling Li, Wenhao Liu, Tianshi Wang … Xiaojun ChangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Technology Sydney · Shandong Normal University · +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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