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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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    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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    Trust Region Continual Learning as an Implicit Meta-LearnerZekun Wang, Anant Gupta, Christopher J. MacLellanarXiv
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    Continual fine-tuning with model soup for human activity recognitionSean Yonathan Tanjung, B. Yahya, Seok-Lyong LeeInternational Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics
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    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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    Spectral Imbalance Causes Forgetting in Low-Rank Continual AdaptationHao Gu, Mao-Lin Luo, Zi-Hao Zhou … Tong WeiICML
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    PSR: Proactive soft-orthogonal regulation for long-tailed class-incremental learningZhihan Fu, Zhiqi Zhang, Shipeng Liao … Tianyu ShenPattern Recognition · Beijing University of Chemical Technology · Beijing Information Science & Technology University
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    Continual learning of multiple cognitive functions with a brain-inspired temporal development mechanismBing Han, feifei Zhao, Yinqian Sun … Yi ZengNational Science Review · Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology · Institute of Automation · +2
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    Learning dynamic representations via an optimally-weighted maximum mean discrepancy optimization framework for continual learningKaihui Huang, Runqing Wu, Jinhui Shen … Fei YeKnowledge-Based Systems · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +2
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    DELNet: Continuous All-in-One Weather Removal via Dynamic Expert LibraryShihong Liu, K. Zuo, Hanguang XiaoImage and Vision Computing
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    Prewired static visual receptive fields for environment-agnostic perceptionMinjun Kang, Seungdae Baek, Se-Bum PaikPatterns · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Korea Institute of Brain Science
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    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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    Continual GUI AgentsZiwei Liu, Borui Kang, Hangjie Yuan … Tao FengarXiv
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    Evolutionary Strategies lead to Catastrophic Forgetting in LLMsImmanuel Abdi, Akshat Gupta, Micah Mok … Gopala AnumanchipalliarXiv
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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
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    Is Parameter Isolation Better for Prompt-Based Continual Learning?Jiangyang Li, Chenhao Ding, Songlin Dong … Yihong GongCVPR
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    Self-Distillation Enables Continual LearningIdan Shenfeld, Mehul Damani, Jonas Hübotter, Pulkit AgrawalICML
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    KeepLoRA: Continual Learning with Residual Gradient AdaptationMao-Lin Luo, Zihao Zhou, Yi-Lin Zhang … Min-Ling ZhangICLR
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    Adaptive Continual Learning for Online Visual Object Tracking via Dynamic Grassmannian Appearance ModelingJinglin Zhou, Tianyang Xu, Xuefeng Zhu … Josef KittlerIEEE TCSVT · Jiangnan University · University of Surrey
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    FadeMem: Biologically-Inspired Forgetting for Efficient Agent MemoryLei Wei, Xiao Peng, Xu Dong … Bin WangICASSP
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    FGGM: Fisher-Guided Gradient Masking for Continual LearningChao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang … Jieping YeICASSP
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    Analytic Incremental Learning For Sound Source Localization With Imbalance RectificationZexia Fan, Yu Lim Chen, Qiquan Zhang … Xinyuan QianICASSP
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    Robust incremental learning of visual concepts without catastrophic forgettingNicki Barari, Xin Lian, Christopher J. MacLellanCognitive Systems Research · Georgia Institute of Technology · Drexel University · +1
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    Feature-Space Generative Models for One-Shot Class-Incremental LearningJack Foster, Kirill Paramonov, Mete Ozay, Umberto MichieliInternational Conference on Information Photonics
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    Orchestrating Prompt Expertise: Enhancing Knowledge Distillation via Expert-Guided TuningXu Meng, Jun Rao, Shuhan Qi … Xuan WangACM Transactions · Harbin Institute of Technology · Global Security Intelligence (United Kingdom) · +1
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    Split-on-Share: Mixture of Sparse Experts for Task-Agnostic Continual LearningFatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Tanwi Mallick, Ali JannesariarXiv
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    Talking to Yourself: Defying Forgetting in Large Language ModelsYutao Sun, Mingshuai Chen, Tiancheng Zhao … Jianwei YinarXiv
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    Task-adaptive continual learning of vision language models via prototype routing and promptLei Pan, Zhipeng Lu, Yuan Zheng … Chang XuNeurocomputing · Civil Aviation Administration of China · Chinese Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology · +3
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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
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    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
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    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
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    Optimal L2 Regularization in High-dimensional Continual Linear RegressionGilad Karpel, Edward Moroshko, Ran Levinstein … Itay EvronarXiv
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    Sparse Adapter Fusion for Continual Learning in NLPMin Zeng, Xi Chen, Haiqin Yang, Yike GuoEACL
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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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