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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
    Transitioning Heads Conundrum: The Hidden Bottleneck in Long-Tailed Class-Incremental LearningR. Vigneswaran, Hari Chandana Kuchibhotla, Vineeth N. BalasubramanianTMLR
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    Lifelong Domain Adaptive 3D Human Pose EstimationQucheng Peng, Hongfei Xue, Pu Wang, Chen ChenAAAI
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    YOLO-IOD: Towards Real Time Incremental Object DetectionShizhou Zhang, Xueqiang Lv, Yinghui Xing … Yanning zhangAAAI
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    Towards understanding memory buffer based continual learningGuodong Zheng, Peng Wang, Tao Sun, Li ShenNeural Networks · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
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    Developing Evolving Adaptability in Biological Intelligence: A Novel Biologically-Inspired Continual Learning Model for Video Saliency PredictionDandan Zhu, Kaiwei Zhang, Kun Zhu … Xiaokang YangTPAMI · East China Normal University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · +3
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    A Theoretical Perspective on Streaming Noisy Data With Distribution ShiftWenshui Luo, Shuo Chen, Tao Zhou, Chen GongTPAMI · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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    VPT-NSP2++: Importance-Aware Visual Prompt Tuning in Null Space for Continual LearningShizhou Zhang, Yue Lu, De Cheng … Yanning ZhangTPAMI · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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    Dual-modality adaptation in vision-language models for continual learningJiahao Zeng, Wentao Zhang, Kanghao Chen … Ruixuan WangNeural Networks · Sun Yat-sen University · GCI Science & Technology (China) · +1
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    CIP-Net: Continual Interpretable Prototype-based NetworkDi Valerio, Federico, Proietti, Michela, Ragno, Alessio, Capobianco, RobertoAAAI
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    Bring Your Dreams to Life: Continual Text-to-Video CustomizationJiahua Dong, Xudong Wang, Wenqi Liang … Fahad Shahbaz KhanAAAI
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    Forget Less, Retain More: A Lightweight Regularizer for Rehearsal-Based Continual LearningLama Alssum, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Motasem Alfarra … Bernard GhanemTMLR
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    Dual prototypes for adaptive pre-trained model in class-incremental learningZhiming Xu, Zhiming Xu, Suorong Yang … Jian ZhaoNeural Networks · Nanjing University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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    Catastrophic Forgetting in Kolmogorov-Arnold NetworksMohammad Marufur Rahman, G. Wang, Kaixiong Zhou … Fan YangAAAI
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    Gene Incremental Learning for Single-Cell TranscriptomicsJiaxin Qi, Yan Cui, Jianqiang Huang, Gaogang XieAAAI
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    Data Heterogeneity and Forgotten Labels in Split Federated LearningJoana Tirana, Dimitra Tsigkari, David Noguéro, Nicolas KourtellisAAAI
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    Bamboo: A Novel Session-Aware Framework With Equiangular Tight Frame Prototypes for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningXinrong Lu, Zhe Wang, Zhiling Fu … Wenli DuTNNLS · East China University of Science and Technology · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
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    SCALE: Upscaled Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsJin-woo Lee, Junhwa Choi, Bongkyu Hwang … Suk-Hoon JungACL
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    An Intrinsically Knowledge-Transferring Developmental Spiking Neural Network for Tactile ClassificationJiaqi Xing, Wei Li, Zezheng Zhang … Zhibin ZhangTNNLS · Uppsala University · Qatar University
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    Continual learning: A systematic literature reviewQinwen Yang, Liyuan Wang, Joerg Wicker, Gillian DobbieNeural Networks · University of Auckland · Tsinghua University · +1
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    Taming Modality Entanglement in Continual Audio-Visual SegmentationHong, Yuyang, Qi Yang, Tao Zhang … Shiming XiangTMLR
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    Release the Potential of Memory Buffer in Continual Learning: A Dynamic System PerspectiveZhenyi Wang, Li Shen, Tiehang Duan … Dacheng TaoTPAMI · University of Central Florida · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) · +6
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    Schedule-Robust Continual LearningRuohan Wang, Marco Ciccone, Massimiliano Pontil, Carlo CilibertoTPAMI · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · Institute for Infocomm Research · +3
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    Continually Adding New Languages to Multilingual Language ModelsAbraham Toluwase Owodunni, Sachin KumarTMLR
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    Recurrent Network Expansion for Class Incremental LearningKai Jiang, Xueru Bai, Feng ZhouTNNLS · Xidian University
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    Rethinking softmax in incremental learningZheng Zhai, Jiali Zhang, Haiyu Wang … Qiang SunNeural Networks · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University · Beijing Normal University · +4
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    HiCL: Hippocampal-Inspired Continual LearningK. Kapoor, Wyatt Mackey, Y. Aloimonos, Xiao-Sheng LinAAAI
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    C3GAN: A brain-inspired memory consolidation for class-incremental learningLin Xiong, Tao Wang, Fuqing Zhang … Hailing XiongNeural Networks · Southwest University · Chongqing Jiaotong University · +2
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    Decoupling Continual Semantic SegmentationYifu Guo, Yu-Quan Lu, Wentao Zhang … Ruixuan WangAAAI
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    ICM-Fusion: In-Context Meta-Optimized LoRA Fusion for Multi-Task AdaptationYihua Shao, Xiaofeng Lin, Xinwei Long … Jing GuoAAAI
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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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