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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
    Bias Calibration for Semi-Supervised Continual LearningZhong Ji, Zhanyu Jiao, Deyu Miao, Chen TangSensors · Tianjin University
  2. 2026
    Singular Value Fine-Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhiwu Wang, Yichen Wu, Renzhen Wang … Deyu MengIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · City University of Hong Kong
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    Evidential Prior Guided Neural Collapse for Open World Object DetectionKewen Xia, Xiaodong Yue, Wei Liu … Yaxin PengIEEE TCSVT · Shanghai University · Tongji University
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    Continual Graph Learning with Topology-Aware Knowledge DistillationY B Zhang, Liu Y, Dongdong Du … Wen WangInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and I… · Tiangong University · China Internet Network Information Center
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    Quadruplet Augmentation With Attribute and Structure Invariance for Online Continual LearningJiamin Wu, Shaofan Wang, Yanan Sun … Baocai YinMemberTPAMI · Beijing University of Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
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    SafeAdapt: Provably Safe Policy Updates in Deep Reinforcement LearningMaksim Anisimov, Francesco Belardinelli, Matthew WickerarXiv · Imperial College London
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    Generalized Incremental Learning under Concept Drift across Evolving Data StreamsEn Yu, Jie Lü, Guangquan ZhangWWW · University of Technology Sydney
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    Self-Evolving LLMs via Continual Instruction TuningJiazheng Kang, Le Huang, Cheng Hou … Ting BaiACM Web Conference 2026 · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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    Class-Domain Incremental Learning on Graphs via Disentangled Knowledge DistillationQin Tian, Chen Zhao, Xintao Wu … Wenjun WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Tianjin University · Baylor University · +2
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    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  13. 2026
    Symbiotic-MoE: Unlocking the Synergy between Generation and UnderstandingXiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang … Ping TanarXiv
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    We Need a More Robust Classifier: Dual Causal Learning Empowers Domain-Incremental Time Series ClassificationZhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Xuan Tang … Binwu WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Northeastern University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +2
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  15. 2026
    E2PL: Effective and Efficient Prompt Learning for Incomplete Multi-view Multi-Label Class Incremental LearningJiajun Chen, Yue Wu, Kai Huang … Guanjie ChengACM Web Conference 2026 · Zhejiang University · Ningbo University
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    Smaller but Better: Plasticity-Preserving Continual Learning for Embedded AIChenxin Mao, Haibo Liu, Zhenzhe Zheng … Guihai ChenACM Web Conference 2026 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  19. 2026
    Space-based Parameter Evolving with Lightweight Optimization for Graph Adaptation to Evolving ShiftsJunyu Luo, Zixuan Ouyang, Xiao Luo … Ming ZhangACM Web Conference 2026 · Peking University · University of Wisconsin–Madison · +2
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    Fast Spatial Memory with Elastic Test-Time TrainingZiqiao Ma, Xueyang Yu, Haoyu Zhen … Chuang GanarXiv
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    Incomplete cross-modality class-incremental learning in visible-thermal recognitionXinjie Yao, Yanxian Bi, Yu Wang … Qinghua HuPattern Recognition · Kunming University of Science and Technology · Tianjin University · +5
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    In-Place Test-Time TrainingGuhao Feng, Shengjie Luo, Kai Hua … Tianle CaiarXiv
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  24. 2026
    Continual Visual Anomaly Detection on the Edge: Benchmark and Efficient SolutionsManuel Barusco, Francesco Borsatti, David Petrovic … Gian Antonio SustoarXiv
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  25. 2026
    MccTTA: A Memory-Efficient Collaborative Continual Test-Time Adaptation Framework for Edge DevicesHaojie Bai, Aiguo Chen, Yijia Rong … Schahram DustdarIEEE Transactions · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · TU Wien
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    LifelongPR: Lifelong Point Cloud Place Recognition Based on Sample Replay and Prompt LearningXianghong Zou, Jianping Li, Zhe Chen … Bisheng YangIEEE T-ITS · Nanchang University · Nanyang Technological University
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  28. 2026
    Improving Sparse Memory FinetuningSatyam Goyal, Anirudh Kanchi, Garv Shah, Prakhar GuptaarXiv
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  29. 2026
    Negative-weighted knowledge distillation regularized graph convolutional network for multi-label class-incremental learningKaile Du, Junzhou Xie, Fan Lyu … Guangcan LiuPattern Recognition · Southeast University · Institute of Automation · +1
  30. 2026
    Towards continual low-light image enhancement through causal inferenceFan Ji, Hao Li, Jiangmeng Li … Fanjiang XuNeural Networks · Institute of Software · Aerospace Information Research Institute · +1
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    When Modalities Remember: Continual Learning for Multimodal Knowledge GraphsLinyu Li, Zhi Jin, Yichi Zhang … Nyima TashiarXiv
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    Incremental Micro-Expression Recognition: A BenchmarkZhengqin Lai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang, Xiaobai LiIEEE Transactions · Harbin Institute of Technology · Zhejiang University
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  36. 2026
    M ozila : Continual Event Detection Through the Lens of Multi-Objective Optimization and Language Model Head PreservationNam Le Hai, Linh Ngo Van, Sang Quang DinhComputational Linguistics · Hanoi University of Science and Technology · VNU University of Science
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  38. 2026
    Robust Embodied Perception in Dynamic Environments via Disentangled Weight FusionJuncen Guo, Xiaoguang Zhu, Jingyi Wu … Liang SongarXiv
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  39. 2026
    CL-VISTA: Benchmarking Continual Learning in Video Large Language ModelsHaiyang Guo, Yichen Shi, Fei Zhu … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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    Class Incremental Learning and Auxiliary Unlabelled Data: The Importance of Neutral ExamplesIgor Sieradzki, Łukasz Struski, I. Podolak, Romuald Aleksander JanikMachine Learning · Jagiellonian University
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    ProTPS: Prototype-Guided Text Prompt Selection for Continual LearningJie Mei, Li-Leng Peng, Keith Fuller, Jenq-Neng HwangarXiv
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    ODGNet: Learning Dynamic Variable Association for Online Time Series ForecastingYushuo Liu, Yulong Wang, Kai WangTKDE · Nankai University
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    Adapting language models with continual learning for temporal driftsAntonio Carta, Alberto Roberto Marinelli, Lucia C. PassaroEvolving Systems · University of Pisa
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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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