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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
    Putting a Face to Forgetting: Continual Learning meets Mechanistic InterpretabilitySergi Masip, Gido M. van de Ven, Javier Ferrando, Tinne TuytelaarsarXiv
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    FIT to Forget: Robust Continual Unlearning for Large Language ModelsXiaoyu Xu, Minxin Du, Kun Fang … HaoLi HuarXiv
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    Building Intelligent Agents with Neuro-Symbolic ConceptsJiayuan Mao, Josh Tenenbaum, Jiajun WuCommunications of the ACM · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences · +1
  7. 2026
    Is Parameter Isolation Better for Prompt-Based Continual Learning?Jiangyang Li, Chenhao Ding, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongCVPR
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  8. 2026
    Self-Distillation Enables Continual LearningIdan Shenfeld, Mehul Damani, Jonas Hübotter, Pulkit AgrawalICML
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  9. 2026
    KeepLoRA: Continual Learning with Residual Gradient AdaptationMao-Lin Luo, Zihao Zhou, Yi-Lin Zhang … Min-Ling ZhangICLR
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    CAKGE: Context-Aware Adaptive Learning for Dynamic Knowledge Graph EmbeddingsZongsheng Cao, Qianqian Xu, Zhiyong Yang … Qingming HuangTPAMI · ShangHai JiAi Genetics & IVF Institute · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · +3
  12. 2026
    Retrieval-Augmented Pseudo-Image Guided Alignment and Text Domain-Aware Memory Recall for Continual Zero-Shot CaptioningBing Liu, Wenjie Yang, Mingming Liu … Yong ZhouIEEE TCSVT · China University of Mining and Technology · Jiangsu Vocational Institute of Architectural Technology · +1
  13. 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
  14. 2026
    Optimal L2 Regularization in High-dimensional Continual Linear RegressionGilad Karpel, Edward Moroshko, Ran Levinstein … Itay EvronarXiv
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  15. 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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    STAER: Temporal Aligned Rehearsal for Continual Spiking Neural NetworkMatteo Gianferrari, Omayma Moussadek, Riccardo Salami … Simone CalderaraICPR
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  19. 2026
    MERGETUNE: Continued fine-tuning of vision-language modelsWenqing Wang, Da Li, Xiatian Zhu, Josef KittlerICLR
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  20. 2026
    Ability Transfer and Recovery via Modularized Parameters LocalizationSongyao Jin, Kun Zhou, Wenqi Li … Biwei HuangarXiv
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    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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  26. 2026
    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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  29. 2026
    MemRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic MemoryShengtao Zhang, Jiaqian Wang, Ruiwen Zhou … Muning WenarXiv
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  30. 2026
    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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  31. 2026
    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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    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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    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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  40. 2026
    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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  41. 2026
    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
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    COBRA: A Continual Learning Approach to Vision-Brain UnderstandingXuan-Bac Nguyen, Manuel Serna-Aguilera, Arabinda K. Choudhary … Ky LuuIJCV · University of Arkansas at Fayetteville · SUNY Upstate Medical University · +2
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    Generalizable and Adaptive Continual Learning Framework for AI-Generated Image DetectionHanyi Wang, Jun Lan, Yaoyu Kang … Shilin WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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    Constructing Enhanced Mutual Information for Online Class-Incremental LearningHuan Zhang, Fan Lyu, Shenghua Fan … Dingwen WangIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Wuhan University · Institute of Automation
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    CRISP: Contrastive Residual Injection and Semantic Prompting for Continual Video Instance SegmentationBaichen Liu, Qi Lyu, Xudong Wang … Zhi HanTIP · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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    MECAD: A Multi-expert Architecture for Continual Anomaly DetectionMalihe Dahmardeh, Francesco SettiSpringer LNCS · University of Verona
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    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Language Adaptation of LLMs via Source-Shielded UpdatesAtsuki Yamaguchi, Terufumi Morishita, Aline Villavicencio, Νικόλαος ΑλέτραςACL · University of Sheffield · Hitachi (Japan)
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  48. 2026
    PASs-MoE: Mitigating Misaligned Co-drift among Router and Experts via Pathway Activation Subspaces for Continual LearningZhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma … Jinqiao WangACL · Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
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  49. 2026
    A Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning Method Using Graph Neural NetworksYuqian Ma, Youfa Liu, Bo DuTIP · Wuhan University
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    DesCLIP: Robust Continual Learning via General Attribute Descriptions for VLM-Based Visual RecognitionChiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng … Hui LiIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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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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