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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
    From Cold-Start to Stabilization: A Dual-Prototype Framework for Online Any-Shot Continual LearningChengyan Liu, Linglan Zhao, Juping Gu … Fan LyuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  2. 2026
    Generalized few-shot intent detection by prompt learning without forgettingChaiyut Luoyiching, Yangning Li, Rongsheng Li … Hong‐Gee KimNeural Computing and Applications · University Town of Shenzhen · Tsinghua University · +3
  3. 2026
    LDEPrompt: Layer-importance guided Dual Expandable Prompt Pool for Pre-trained Model-based Class-Incremental LearningLinjie Li, Zhenyu Wu, Huiyu Xiao, Jie YangICASSP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  4. 2026
    Rehearsing High Confident Samples via Masked Optimal Transportation for Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Named Entity RecognitionZhiyuan Ma, Miaomiao Gu, Jialin Cao … Dan LiuICASSP · Machine Intelligence Research Institute
  5. 2026
    Revisiting Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Knowledge Graph EmbeddingGerard Pons, Carlos Escolano, Besim Bilalli, Anna QueraltarXiv
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  6. 2026
    Revisiting Prototypes for Open-Domain Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsYadong Lu, Shitian Zhao, Boxiang Yun … Yue WangICASSP · East China Normal University
  7. 2026
    Safe Continual Reinforcement Learning in Non-stationary EnvironmentsAustin Coursey, Abel Diaz-Gonzalez, Marcos Quinones-Grueiro, Gautam BiswasarXiv
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  8. 2026
    Sard: Similarity-Aligned Reminiscence and Distillation for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningSeongsu Kim, In-Soo Kim, Sangwoo Yun … Joonki PaikICASSP · Chung-Ang University
  9. 2026
    SCI-GR: Sequential Controllable Inpainting-Based Generative Replay For Class-Incremental Object DetectionNuohan Xue, Caixia Yan, Yi-Xiang Wang … Yudeng XinICASSP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · The University of Melbourne
  10. 2026
    Semantic and Temporal-Aware Distillation for Class-Incremental LearningDongyan Guo, Xusheng Wang, Yuanhao Zheng … Ying CuiICASSP · Zhejiang University of Technology
  11. 2026
    The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma Revisited: A Brain-Inspired Continual Learning Method with Representation-Function SeparationYuyang Han, Li Z, Zhiying Long, Xia WuICASSP · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  12. 2026
    EKPC: Elastic Knowledge Preservation and Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningHuaijie Wang, De Cheng, Lingfeng He … Xinbo GaoIJCV · Xidian University · Northwestern Polytechnical University
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  13. 2026
    IncreFA: Breaking the Static Wall of Generative Model AttributionHaotian Qin, Dongliang Chang, Yueying Gao … Zhanyu MaCVPR
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  14. 2026
    CREAM: Continual Retrieval on Dynamic Streaming Corpora with Adaptive Soft MemoryHuijeong Son, Hyeongu Kang, Sunho Kim … Susik YoonKDD · Korea University · Yonsei University
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  15. 2026
    Fair Class-Incremental Learning using Sample WeightingJaeyoung Park, Minsu Kim, Steven Euijong WhangKDD · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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  16. 2026
    GradMix: Gradient-based Selective Mixup for Robust Data Augmentation in Class-Incremental LearningMinsu Kim, Seong-Hyeon Hwang, Steven Euijong WhangKDD · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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  17. 2026
    Train Separately, Merge Together: Modular Post-Training with Mixture-of-ExpertsJacob Morrison, Sanjay Adhikesaven, Akshita Bhagia … Sewon MinarXiv
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  21. 2026
    Mistake gating leads to energy and memory efficient continual learningAaron Pache, Mark C. W. van RossumbioRxiv · University of Nottingham
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  22. 2026
    Task Switching Without Forgetting via Proximal DecouplingPourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Eric Granger … Yue LuarXiv
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  24. 2026
    A 22nm Continual Learning Accelerator for Autonomous Systems with 69.2TOPS/W Dynamic-Sparse-Weight-Updat and Dual-Mode Vector-Scaled-INT4 ProcessingJunnosuke Suzuki, Takuma Ishibashi, Hikari Otsuka … Masato MotomuraIEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) · Hokkaido University
  25. 2026
    Jupiter-N Technical ReportGeorge DraysonarXiv
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  27. 2026
    Continual Hand-Eye Calibration for Open-world Robotic ManipulationFazeng Li, Gan Sun, Chenxi Liu … Yang CongarXiv
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  29. 2026
    CSBoRA: A continual learning method for large language models with true orthogonality and reduced forgettingYuyang Liu, Lai-Man Po, Farrell Hung … Kwok-Wai CheungPattern Recognition · City University of Hong Kong · nLIGHT (United States) · +2
  30. 2026
    JumpLoRA: Sparse Adapters for Continual Learning in Large Language ModelsAlexandra Dragomir, Ioana Pintilie, Antonio Bărbălau … Radu Tudor IonescuarXiv
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    Why Fine-Tuning Encourages Hallucinations and How to Fix ItGuy Kaplan, Zorik Gekhman, Zhen Zhu … Roy SchwartzarXiv
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  34. 2026
    CI-CBM: Class-Incremental Concept Bottleneck Model for Interpretable Continual LearningAmirhosein Javadi, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tara Javidi, Tsui-Wei WengTMLR
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  35. 2026
    (How) Learning Rates Regulate Catastrophic OvertrainingMark Rofin, Aditya Varre, Nicolas FlammarionarXiv
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  38. 2026
    MAny: Merge Anything for Multimodal Continual Instruction TuningZijian Gao, Wangwang Jia, Xingxing Zhang … Kele XuarXiv
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  39. 2026
    CobwebTM: Probabilistic Concept Formation for Lifelong and Hierarchical Topic ModelingKarthik Singaravadivelan, Anant Gupta, Zekun Wang, Christopher MaclellanACL
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  40. 2026
    ReConText3D: Replay-based Continual Text-to-3D GenerationMuhammad Ahmed Ullah Khan, Muhammad Haris Bin Amir, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan AfzalarXiv
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  41. 2026
    BID-LoRA: A Parameter-Efficient Framework for Continual Learning and UnlearningJagadeesh Rachapudi, Ritali Vatsi, Praful Hambarde, Amit ShuklaarXiv
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    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting With Adaptive Transformer Block Expansion in Federated Fine-TuningYujia Huo, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu … Liusheng HuangIEEE Transactions · University of Science and Technology of China · China University of Mining and Technology
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  44. 2026
    DECODE: Domain-Aware Continual Domain Expansion for Motion PredictionBoqi Li, Haojie Zhu, Henry LiuTPAMI · University of Michigan
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  45. 2026
    A Faster Path to Continual LearningWei Li, Hangjie Yuan, Zixiang Zhao … Tao FengCVPR
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  46. 2026
    HiEdit: Lifelong Model Editing with Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningYangfan Wang, Tianyang Sun, Chen Tang … Jingchi JiangACL
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  48. 2026
    ReBac: Current-to-Past Residual Background Correction for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuangyu Gao, Anqi Zhang, Jianbo Jiao … Yunchao WeiIJCV · Beijing Institute of Technology · University of Birmingham · +1
  49. 2026
    Model Editing for New Document Integration in Generative Information RetrievalZ C Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xinyu Ma … Zhaochun RenACM Web Conference 2026 · Shandong University · Qingdao University · +4
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  50. 2026
    A Layer-wise Analysis of Supervised Fine-TuningQinghua Zhao, Xueling Gong, Xinyu Chen … Xinlu LiACL
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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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