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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. 2025
    Adapt-∞: Scalable Continual Multimodal Instruction Tuning via Dynamic Data SelectionAdyasha Maharana, Jaehong Yoon, Tianlong Chen, Mohit BansalICLR
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    Neuroplastic Expansion in Deep Reinforcement LearningJiashun Liu, Johan Obando-Ceron, Aaron Courville, Ling PanICLR
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    LeanAgent: Lifelong Learning for Formal Theorem ProvingAdarsh Kumarappan, Mohit Tiwari, Peiyang Song … Anima AnandkumarICLR
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    Self-Updatable Large Language Models by Integrating Context into Model ParametersYu Wang, Xinshuang Liu, Xiusi Chen … Julian McAuleyICLR
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    LoRanPAC: Low-rank Random Features and Pre-trained Models for Bridging Theory and Practice in Continual LearningLiangzu Peng, Juan Elenter, Joshua Agterberg … René Víctor Valqui VidalICLR
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    Theory on Mixture-of-Experts in Continual LearningHongbo Li, Sen Lin, Lingjie Duan … Ness B. ShroffICLR
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    MOS: Model Synergy for Test-Time Adaptation on LiDAR-Based 3D Object DetectionZhuoxiao Chen, Junjie Meng, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh … Yadan LuoICLR
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    Towards Continuous Reuse of Graph Models via Holistic Memory DiversificationZiyue Qiao, Junren Xiao, Qingqiang Sun … Xiong, HuiICLR
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    Learning Continually by Spectral RegularizationAlex Lewandowski, Bortkiewicz, Michał, Saurabh Kumar … Marlos C. MachadoICLR
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    Perturbation-Restrained Sequential Model EditingJun-Yu Ma, Hong Wang, Hao-Xiang Xu … Jia-Chen GuICLR
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    A Second-Order Perspective on Model Compositionality and Incremental LearningAngelo Porrello, Lorenzo Bonicelli, Pietro Buzzega … Rita CucchiaraICLR
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    Adaptive Retention&Correction: Test-Time Training for Continual LearningHao Chen, Micah Goldblum, Zuxuan Wu, Yu–Gang JiangICLR
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    Online Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary Context-Driven EnvironmentsPouya Hamadanian, Arash Nasr-Esfahany, Malte Schwarzkopf … Mohammad AlizadehICLR
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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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