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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
    A Minimalistic Unified Framework for Incremental Learning across Image Restoration TasksXiaoxuan Gong, Jie MaNeurIPS · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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    C$^2$Prompt: Class-aware Client Knowledge Interaction for Federated Continual LearningKunlun Xu, Yibo Feng, Jiangmeng Li … Jiahuan ZhouNeurIPS · Peking University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +3
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    Exploiting Task Relationships in Continual Learning via Transferability-Aware Task EmbeddingsYanru Wu, Jianning Wang, Xiangyu Chen … Yang LiNeurIPS · Tsinghua University · Harbin Institute of Technology · +3
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    Gradient-Guided Epsilon Constraint Method for Online Continual LearningSong Lai, Changyi Ma, Fei Zhu … Qingfu ZhangNeurIPS · City University of Hong Kong · Chinese University of Hong Kong · +4
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    Hippocampal-like Sequential Editing for Continual Knowledge Updates in Large Language ModelsQuntian Fang, Zhen Huang, Zhiliang Tian … Guotong GengNeurIPS · National University of Defense Technology · United States Department of Defense · +1
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    Learn and Ensemble Bridge Adapters for Multi-domain Task Incremental LearningZiqi Gu, Chunyan Xu, Wenxuan Fang … Zhen CuiNeurIPS · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Google (United States) · +1
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    Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMsJun Wang, Liang Ding, Shuai Wang … Bo DuNeurIPS · The University of Sydney · Wuhan University · +2
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    Confusion-Driven Self-Supervised Progressively Weighted Ensemble Learning for Non-Exemplar Class Incremental LearningKai Hu, Zhang Yu, Yuan Zhang … Xieping GaoNeurIPS · Xiangtan University · Communication University of China · +2
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    Learning Multi-Source and Robust Representations for Continual LearningFei Ye, yongcheng zhong, Qihe Liu … shijie zhouNeurIPS · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York
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    SPFL: Sequential updates with Parallel aggregation for Enhanced Federated Learning under Category and Domain ShiftsHaoyuan Liang, Shilei Cao, Li Feng Li … Juepeng ZhengNeurIPS · Tsinghua University
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    Tackling Continual Offline RL through Selective Weights Activation on Aligned SpacesJifeng Hu, Sili Huang, Li Chun Shen … Dacheng TaoNeurIPS · Jilin University · Jilin Medical University · +5
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    Dual-Space Semantic Synergy Distillation for Continual Learning of Unlabeled StreamsDonghao Sun, Xi Wang, Xu Yang … Cheng DengNeurIPS · Xidian University · ETH Zurich · +2
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    Evolving and Regularizing Meta-Environment Learner for Fine-Grained Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningLi-Jun Zhao, Zhen-Duo Chen, Yongxin Wang … Xin-Shun XuNeurIPS · Shandong University · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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    Federated Continual Learning via Orchestrating Multi-Scale ExpertiseXiaoyang Yi, Yang Liu, Binhan Yang, Jian ZhangNeurIPS · Nankai University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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    Hybrid Re-matching for Continual Learning with Parameter-Efficient TuningWeicheng Wang, Guoli Jia, Xialei Liu … Jufeng YangNeurIPS · Nankai University · Tsinghua University
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    OVS Meets Continual Learning: Towards Sustainable Open-Vocabulary SegmentationDongjun Hwang, Yejin Kim, Minyoung Lee … Junsuk ChoeNeurIPS · Sogang University · University of Tübingen
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    The Dual Nature of Plasticity Loss in Deep Continual Learning: Dissection and MitigationHaoyu Wang, Wei Dai, Jiawei Zhang … Yuguo YuNeurIPS · Tianjin University · Fudan University
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    Turning the Tables: Enabling Backward Transfer via Causal-Aware LoRA in Continual LearningChaoyang Li, Runze Ye, Jianyang Qin … Qing LiaoNeurIPS · Harbin Institute of Technology · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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    LoRA vs Full Fine-tuning: An Illusion of EquivalenceReece Shuttleworth, Jacob Andreas, Antonio Torralba, Pratyusha SharmaNeurIPS
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  29. 2025
    Temporal-Difference Variational Continual LearningL. Melo, Alessandro Abate, Yarin GalNeurIPS
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  30. 2025
    DOTA: Distributional Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language ModelsZongbo Han, Jia-Long Yang, Junfa Li … Changqing ZhangNeurIPS
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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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