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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
    Continual Adaptation for Pacific Indigenous Speech RecognitionYang Xiao, Aso Mahmudi, Nick Thieberger … Ting DangarXiv
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    Information-Theoretic Constraints for Continual Vision-Language-Action AlignmentLibang Zhao, Qixin Zeng, Hongyin Zhang, Donglin WangarXiv
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  3. 2026
    PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and ToolkitMuhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier StrickerWACV · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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    CADE: Continual Weakly-supervised Video Anomaly Detection with EnsemblesSatoshi Hashimoto, Tatsuya Konishi, Tomoya Kaichi … Mori KurokawaWACV · KDDI Research (Japan)
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    DREAM: Dynamic Prompts and GuidedMix for Efficient Continual Adaptation of Visual-Language ModelsEvelyn Chee, Mong Li Lee, Wynne HsuWACV · National University of Singapore
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    SCOPE: Scene-Contextualized Incremental Few-Shot 3D SegmentationVishal Thengane, Zhaochong An, Tianjin Huang … Xiatian ZhuarXiv
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    Sculpting Margin Penalty: Intra-Task Adapter Merging and Classifier Calibration for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningLiang Bai, Hong Song, J. W. Li … Jian YangIEEE TCSVT · Beijing Institute of Technology
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    What Does Flow Matching Bring To TD Learning?Bhavya Agrawalla, Michal Nauman, Aviral KumararXiv
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    SPRINT: Semi-supervised Prototypical Representation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Tabular LearningU. Suleymanov, Murat Kantarcioglu, Kevin S Chan … B. ThuraisinghamarXiv
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  14. 2026
    CGL: Advancing Continual GUI Learning via Reinforcement Fine-TuningZhenquan Yao, Zitong Huang, Yihan Zeng … Wangmeng ZuoCVPR
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    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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    AutoSkill: Experience-Driven Lifelong Learning via Skill Self-EvolutionYutao Yang, Junsong Li, Qianjun Pan … Liang HearXiv
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    A Unified Knowledge Management Framework for Continual Learning and Machine Unlearning in Large Language ModelsJiaqi Lang, Linjing Li, Dajun ZengInformation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +1
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  22. 2026
    Continual Learning Through the Lens of Adaptive Filtering: A mathematical tutorialLiangzu Peng, René VidalIEEE Signal Processing Magazine · University of Pennsylvania
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    DOR: Decoupled Orthogonal Replay for Low-Cost Continual Learning in Visual Question AnsweringZ X SunInternational Conference on Image and Graphics Processing… · Beijing Jiaotong University
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    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
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    IDER: IDempotent Experience Replay for Reliable Continual LearningZhanwang Liu, Yuting Li, Haoyuan Gao … Weiran HuangICLR
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    Continual few-shot named entity recognition against catastrophic forgetting and overfittingYuanyuan Zhao, S.L. Zhao, S.L. Zhao, Minghu WangNeural Networks · Hebei University of Economics and Business · Hebei Normal University
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    Diagnosing BN discrepancy in rehearsal-based class incremental learningMinghao Zhou, Quanziang Wang, Renzhen Wang … Deyu MengInternational Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
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    A Multi-objective Alternating Knowledge Distillation Method for Heterogeneous Federated LearningX. Mao, Jing-Bo ZhangInternational journal of software engineering and knowled…
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    CoPeP: Benchmarking Continual Pretraining for Protein Language ModelsDarshan Patil, Pranshu Malviya, Mathieu Reymond … Sarath ChandararXiv
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    FastODT: A tree-based framework for efficient continual learningDaniel Bretsko, Piotr Walas, Devashish Khulbe … Tomas SaturaarXiv
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    Online Continual Learning via the Feature Enhancement NetworkYa‐nan Han, Zong‐xia Jiao, Xiaochao Liu, Peng‐yuan QiExpert Systems · Tianmushan Laboratory · Beihang University
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    Unsupervised Continual Learning for Amortized Bayesian InferenceAayush Mishra, Šimon Kucharský, Paul-Christian BürknerarXiv
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    Learning in the Null Space: Small Singular Values for Continual LearningCuong Anh Pham, Praneeth Vepakomma, Samuel HorvátharXiv
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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
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    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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    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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    Audio-Visual Continual Test-Time Adaptation without ForgettingSarthak Kumar Maharana, Akshay Mehra, B.S. Ramakrishna … Guan-Ming SuarXiv
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    Continual-NExT: A Unified Comprehension And Generation Continual Learning FrameworkJingyang Qiao, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan … Yuan XiearXiv
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    Revisiting Weight Regularization for Low-Rank Continual LearningYaoyue Zheng, Yin Zhang, Joost van de Weijer … Zhiqiang TianICLR
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    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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    FOCUS: Frequency-Optimized Conditioning of diffUSion models for mitigating catastrophic forgetting during test-time adaptationGabriel Tjio, Jie Zhang, Xulei Yang … Qing GuoMachine Vision and Applications · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · Nanyang Technological University · +4
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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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