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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
    Meta-Adaptive Continual Learning for Dynamic Social Communication GraphsMonika Varshney, Tanima DuttaIEEE Transactions · Indian Institute of Technology BHU · Banaras Hindu University
  2. 2026
    Miles: Metric Learning With Expandable Subspace for Pre-Trained Model-Based Class-Incremental LearningKai Jiang, Zisong Lin, Hongyuan Zhang … Xuelong LiTIP · Xidian University · University of Hong Kong · +1
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    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Multilingual Continual Pretraining: Lessons from EU Institutional LLMsCarolina Oliveira Costa, Bhavani Bhaskar, Hans Ewetz … Ilja RauschProcedia Computer Science · European Commission · Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
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    Multi-Level Collaborative Distillation Meets Global Workspace Model: A Unified Framework for OCILShibin Su, Guoqiang Liang, De Cheng … Lingyan RanTIP · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Xidian University
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    Multi-subspace SVD Generators for Continual LearningChristiaan Lamers, Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, Thomas Bäck, Niki van SteinSpringer CCIS · NORCE Research AS · Leiden University · +1
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    NExplore: Exploration with Neural Fields for Autonomous Scene Reconstruction.Zike Yan, Zijia Kuang, Yuetao Li … Hongbin ZhaTPAMI · Tsinghua University · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
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    Overcoming Dual Incremental Challenges in Continual Person Search via Adapter and PrototypeXi Yang, Hexun Zhou, De Cheng, Nannan WangTIP · Xidian University
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    Pattern in Motion: Retrieval-Augmented Learning for Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Graphs.Haoyu Zhang, Xinke Jiang, Wentao Zhang … Heqing HuangTPAMI · City University of Hong Kong · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
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    PointPDF V2: A Unified Framework for Continual Open-World 3D Semantic Segmentation.Jinfeng Xu, Xianzhi Li, Yixue Hao, Long HuTPAMI · Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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    Preserving Fairness in Knowledge Transfer for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental Learning via Semantic PropagationFankang Xu, Lu Jin, Yanpeng Sun, Zechao LiTIP · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Singapore University of Technology and Design
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    Prompting Rain Off: Evolving Compact Dual Prompts for Continual De-RainingMinghao Liu, Wenhan Yang, Jiaying LiuTIP · Peking University · Peng Cheng Laboratory
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    Robust Personalized Federated Continual Learning via Explainable Multi-Granularity Prompt.Hao Yu, Xiaomin Yang, Boyang Fan … Qiang YangTPAMI · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) · Shenzhen Weiguang Biological Products (China) · +3
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    Same Methods, Different Rankings: Trainable Depth as an Evaluation Variable in Continual LearningPaul-Tiberiu Iordache, Elena Burceanu, Mihai DascăluIEEE Access · University of Science and Technology · Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București
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    Semi-Supervised 3-D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Using Multiscale Graph Attention and Class-Incremental LearningH. Ye, Wei Guo, Liang Ma … Jiahao MaIEEE Access · Qingdao Huanghai University · Namseoul University · +4
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    SGM-Net: 3D Point Cloud Class-Incremental Segmentation via Semantic-Aware Global ModelingJinshuo Liu, Bingtao Ma, Zhidong Zhao … Shuai WangIEEE Signal Processing Letters · Hangzhou Dianzi University
  16. 2026
    Soft Orthogonal Low-Rank Adaptation for Knowledge Sharing in Large Language Model Continual LearningYitong Wang, Xue Han, Wenchun Gao … Junlan FengACL · Jiuquan Iron & Steel (China) · China Mobile (China) · +1
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    The Dominance of Text Space: Unveiling the Asymmetric Nature of Cross-Modal Alignment in Large Language ModelsLinqing Chen, Hanmeng Zhong, Wentao Wu, Peng ZhouACL · Suzhou Research Institute
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    TILES: Transformer-Based Incremental Learning for Expanding SegmenterHejer Ammar, Saad Lahlali, Romaric AudigierIEEE Access · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies
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    Topology-Evolving Semantic Adaptation for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Action RecognitionXingyu Zhu, Binqian Xu, Jiachao Zhang … Xiangbo ShuIEEE Trans. Multimedia · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Nanjing Institute of Technology · +1
  20. 2026
    Type-Balanced Contextual Learning for Incremental Named Entity RecognitionDuzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Xiuyi Chen … Dong YuIEEE TAI · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Kyoto University · +2
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  21. 2026
    VFA: Empowering Multilingual MLLMs via Vision-Free AdaptationYixia Li, Yaqing Shi, Zhiwen Ruan … Furu WeiACL · Southern University of Science and Technology · Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · +3
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    Weighted Evidential Continual Learning with Logits-Angle Knowledge DistillationChao Yang, Dingyü Xue, Shizhuo Deng … Dongyue ChenSpringer LNCS · Northeastern University · Foshan University
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    FIT: Defying Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual LLM UnlearningXiaoYu Xu, Minxin Du, Kun Fang … Haibo HuarXiv
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    Abstraction as a Memory-Efficient Inductive Bias for Continual LearningElnaz Rahmati, Nona Ghazizadeh, Zhivar Sourati … Morteza DehghaniarXiv
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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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