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The foundational work on continual learning, 1980 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    DOR: Decoupled Orthogonal Replay for Low-Cost Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringZ X SunInternational Conference on Image and Graphics Processing… · Beijing Jiaotong University
  2. 2026
    Pooling-based Gate Networks for Dynamic Modular Continual LearningZiye Fang, Bo Wan, Shangqi Guo, Jian K. LiuJournal of Information and Intelligence · Xidian University · Human Computer Interaction (Switzerland) · +2
  3. 2026
    IDER: IDempotent Experience Replay for Reliable Continual LearningZhanwang Liu, Yuting Li, Haoyuan Gao … Weiran HuangICLR
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    FastODT: A tree-based framework for efficient continual learningDaniel Bretsko, Piotr Walas, Devashish Khulbe … Tomas SaturaarXiv
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    A continual learning framework with long-term and multiple short-term memory networksShangge Liu, Lei Wang, Rui Yan … Yang GaoNeural Networks · Nanjing Tech University · University of Wollongong · +2
  8. 2026
    EW-DETR: Evolving World Object Detection via Incremental Low-Rank DEtection TRansformerMunish Monga, Vishal Chudasama, Pankaj Wasnik, C. V. JawaharCVPR
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    Hybrid Offline–Online Learning of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps for Forecasting Nonstationary Streaming Time SeriesX. Liu, Yingjun Zhang, Hui Wang … Baigen CaiIEEE Transactions · Lanzhou Jiaotong University · Beijing Jiaotong University · +1
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  11. 2026
    Online Continual Learning via Spiking Neural Networks with Sleep Enhanced Latent ReplayErliang Lin, Wenbin Luo, Wu Jia … Wenying XuInternational Conference on Intelligent Control and Infor… · Southeast University
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  12. 2026
    Continual-NExT: A Unified Comprehension And Generation Continual Learning FrameworkJingyang Qiao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XiearXiv
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  13. 2026
    Revisiting Weight Regularization for Low-Rank Continual LearningYaoyue Zheng, Yin Zhang, Joost van de Weijer … Zhiqiang TianICLR
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  14. 2026
    Continual learning and refinement of causal models through dynamic predicate inventionEnrique Crespo-Fernandez, Oliver Ray, Telmo M. Silva Filho, Peter FlacharXiv
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  15. 2026
    Learning Unknowns Without Forgetting Knowns: Compositional and Bidirectional Low-Rank Adaptive Open-World Detection TransformerY. M. Pan, Zhaoquan Yuan, Xiao Wu … Chunqiang XuIEEE TCSVT · Southwest Jiaotong University · Shandong Institute of Automation · +1
  16. 2026
    Panini: Continual Learning in Token Space via Structured MemoryShreyas Rajesh, Pavan Holur, Mehmet Y. Turali … Vwani RoychowdhuryarXiv
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  17. 2026
    Learning sculpts orthogonal task manifolds for continual skill learning in recurrent networksZihan Liu, Anno C. Kurth, Yuma Osako, Toshitake AsabukibioRxiv · Chinese University of Hong Kong · RIKEN Center for Brain Science · +2
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  18. 2026
    Towards Experience Replay for Class-Incremental Learning in Fully-Binary NetworksYanis Basso-Bert, Anca Molnos, Romain Lemaire … Antoine DupretACM Transactions · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · CEA Grenoble · +3
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  19. 2026
    Fast Evaluation of Deep Neural Network (DNN) for Past Dataset in Incremental LearningN. SatoThe European Journal on Artificial Intelligence · Hitachi (Japan)
  20. 2026
    Policy Gradient with Adaptive Entropy Annealing for Continual Fine-TuningYaqian Zhang, Bernhard Pfahringer, Eibe Frank, Albert BifetarXiv
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  21. 2026
    Advancing Analytic Class-Incremental Learning through Vision-Language CalibrationBinyu Zhao, Wei Zhang, Xingrui Yu … Ivor W. TsangICML
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  22. 2026
    Multi-Head Attention as a Source of Catastrophic Forgetting in MoE TransformersA. Q. Chen, Ruijun Huang, Xin Zhang … Li ShangarXiv
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  23. 2026
    Class-Incremental Cloud-Device Collaborative Adaptation With Contrastive Learning in Dynamic Changing EnvironmentsYushi Zeng, Haopeng Ren, Yi Cai … Qing LiTNNLS · South China University of Technology · Guangzhou University · +3
  24. 2026
    Learning From Each Other: Generalized Federated Incremental Semantic SegmentationJiahua Dong, Wenqi Liang, Yang Cong … Luc Van GoolTPAMI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Shenyang Institute of Automation · +5
  25. 2026
    Robust Policy Optimization to Prevent Catastrophic ForgettingMahdi Sabbaghi, George J. Pappas, Adel Javanmard, Hamed HassaniarXiv
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  26. 2026
    AVQACL++: Toward a Robust Framework and Benchmark for Audio-Visual Question Answering Continual LearningKunning Wu, Xinde Li, X. Z. Li … Zhiwei LvIEEE TCSVT · Southeast University
  27. 2026
    CoMasTRe+: Unleashing Disentangled Continual Segmentation With Mixture of Continual AdaptersYizheng Gong, Siyue Yu, Liquan Shen, Jimin XiaoIEEE TCSVT · Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Shanghai University
  28. 2026
    Learning to Remember, Learn, and Forget in Attention-Based ModelsDjohan Bonnet, Jamie Lohoff, Jan Finkbeiner … Emre NeftciarXiv
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    MePo: Meta Post-Refinement for Rehearsal-Free General Continual LearningGuanglong Sun, Hongwei Yan, Liyuan Wang … Yi ZhongICML
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  32. 2026
    Order parameters and phase transitions of continual learning in deep neural networksHaozhe Shan, Qianyi Li, Haim SompolinskyPNAS · Harvard University · Harvard University Press · +4
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  33. 2026
    CEFCIL: Comprehensive Ensemble Framework for Exemplar-Free Class Incremental LearningWei Liu, Cheng Zhu, Fan Wu … Q. LiuBig Data Mining and Analytics · National University of Defense Technology · Central South University
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    Continual Learning through Control MinimizationSander de Haan, Yassine Taoudi-Benchekroun, Pau Vilimelis Aceituno, Benjamin F. GrewearXiv
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  37. 2024
    ACIL: Active Class Incremental Learning for Image ClassificationAditya Bhattacharya, Debanjan Goswami, Shayok ChakrabortyBMVC
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  38. 2026
    Finding Structure in Continual LearningPourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh ZareapoorarXiv
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  39. 2026
    A practical guide to streaming continual learningAndrea Cossu, Federico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer … Davide BacciuNeurocomputing · University of Pisa · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa · +6
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    TMS: Trajectory-Mixed Supervision for Reward-Free, On-Policy SFTRana Muhammad Shahroz Khan, Zijie Liu, Zhen Tan … Tianlong ChenarXiv
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    PACE: Pretrained Audio Continual LearningChang Li, Kanglei Zhou, Liyuan WangarXiv
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    SAME: Stabilized Mixture-of-Experts for Multimodal Continual Instruction TuningZhen-Hao Xie, Jun-Tao Tang, Yu-Cheng Shi … Da-Wei ZhouICML
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  49. 2026
    Why not transform chat large language models to non-English?Xiang Geng, Ming Zhu, Jiahuan Li … Shujian HuangFrontiers of Computer Science · Nanjing University · Huawei Technologies (China)
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  50. 2026
    Spectral Imbalance Causes Forgetting in Low-Rank Continual AdaptationHao Gu, Mao-Lin Luo, Zi-Hao Zhou … Tong WeiICML
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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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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