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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. 2026
    MIST: Reliable Streaming Decision Trees for Online Class-Incremental Learning via McDiarmid BoundPhu-Hoa Pham, Chi-Nguyen Tran, Nguyen Lam Phu Quy … Long Tran-ThanharXiv
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  2. 2026
    Online Continual Learning with Dynamic Label HierarchiesXinrui Wang, Shao-Yuan Li, Bartłomiej Twardowski … Songcan ChenICML
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  3. 2026
    Stop Marginalizing My Dreams: Model Inversion via Laplace Kernel for Continual LearningPatryk Krukowski, Jacek Tabor, Przemysław Spurek … Łukasz StruskiarXiv
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  4. 2026
    Unlocking Compositional Generalization in Continual Few-Shot LearningPhu-Quy Nguyen-Lam, Phu-Hoa Pham, Dao Sy Duy Minh … Long Tran-ThanharXiv
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  5. 2026
    Joint sparse coding and temporal dynamics support context reconfigurationQianqian Shi, Yue Che, Faqiang Liu … Luping ShiarXiv
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  7. 2026
    Lost or Hidden? A Concept-Level Forgetting in Supervised Continual LearningKatarzyna Filus, Kamil Faber, Roberto Corizzo, Christopher KananarXiv
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  10. 2026
    Characterizing continual learning scenarios and strategies for audio analysisRuchi Bhatt, Pratibha Kumari, Dwarikanath Mahapatra … Mukesh SainiEURASIP Journal on Audio Speech and Music Processing
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  12. 2026
    CRAFT: Forgetting-Aware Intervention-Based Adaptation for Continual LearningMd Anwar Hossen, Fatema Siddika, J. Pablo Muñoz … Ali JannesariarXiv
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  14. 2026
    Skill Neologisms: Towards Skill-based Continual LearningAntonin Berthon, Nicolás Astorga, Mihaela van der SchaarICML
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  15. 2026
    ComAdPro: compositional learning with prototype adaptation for logo few-shot class-incremental recognition (ChinaMM 2025)Jianxin Zhan, 陈文泰, Sujuan Hou, Weiqing MinMultimedia Systems · Shandong Normal University · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
  16. 2026
    Stabilizing LLM Supervised Fine-Tuning via Explicit Distributional ControlXinyu Wang, Changzhi Sun, Yuanbin Wu, Xiaoling WangarXiv
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  17. 2026
    Federated Class Incremental Learning Method With High Accuracy and Extremely Low Communication Cost Based on Broad Learning SystemJie Du, Wenbing Chen, Peng Liu … C L Philip ChenIEEE Transactions · Shenzhen University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · +2
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  19. 2026
    Sharpness-Aware Pretraining Mitigates Catastrophic ForgettingIshaan Watts, Catherine Li, Sachin Goyal … Aditi RaghunathanarXiv
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  20. 2026
    Elastic Multi-Gradient Descent for Parallel Continual LearningFan Lyu, Wei Feng, Yuepan Li … Liang WangTPAMI · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Tianjin University · +2
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  21. 2026
    Learning forward-compatible and domain-invariant representations for cross-domain few-shot class-incremental learningWeidong Shi, Xudong Yan, Jiazheng Yuan … Songhe FengNeural Networks · Beijing Jiaotong University · Beijing Normal University · +3
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  23. 2026
    Text-guided class-incremental point cloud semantic segmentation with category distribution constraintChao Zheng, Yan Xu, Xiaorui Peng … Yu MengEng. Applications of AI · University of Science and Technology Beijing
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  26. 2026
    NORACL: Neurogenesis for Oracle-free Resource-Adaptive Continual LearningKarthik Raghunathan, Christian Metzner, Laura Kriener, Melika PayvandarXiv
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  27. 2026
    Continual Test-Time Training on Graphs via Adaptive Prompts IntegrationQianyi Cai, Ziyue Qiao, Rui Cai … Hui XiongTPAMI · Great Bay University · University of California, Davis · +2
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  29. 2026
    CLEAR-BART: A Continuous Learning Architecture for Informal Text Transformation in the GenZ Social Information AgeNandhini Shanmugarajah, Lu Liu, Zeyu Fu, Yuchen ZhangInternational Conference on Multi-scale Artificial Intell… · University of Exeter · University of Essex
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  32. 2026
    AFcl: Asynchronous federated continual learning with mobile devices across edgesYinlong Li, Siyao Cheng, H ZHANG … Zhiyong ChenAdvanced Engineering Informatics · Harbin Institute of Technology · Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry (China)
  33. 2026
    Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural NetworksRiccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University · Politecnico di Milano
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  35. 2026
    AdaEvol: Dynamic Adapter Merging for Effective Continual Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Large Language ModelsR X Liu, Min Yu, Jianguo Jiang … Ming LiuICASSP · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Information Engineering · +2
  36. 2026
    Alleviating Forgetting in Class-Incremental Learning Via Implicit Semantic AugmentationTao Yu, Yan Chen, Xinyu Liu … Liang DuICASSP · Shanxi University · Taiyuan University of Science and Technology · +2
  37. 2026
    CEAL: Cross-Expert Attention with Curated Peer Selection for Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Exemplar-Free Continual LearningSeongsu Kim, Dongheon Lee, Sangwoo Yun … Joonki PaikICASSP · Chung-Ang University
  38. 2026
    Continual Learning with Clip Text-Prototype and an Orthogonal Pre-Expanded Classification HeadTong Yu, Kanghao Chen, Jiantao Tan … Ruixuan WangICASSP · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangzhou University · +1
  39. 2026
    Cross Task Knowledge Transfer for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningShuai Chen, Leike An, Jiaxi Wang … Jibin WangICASSP · China Mobile (China) · Beijing Institute of Technology
  40. 2026
    From Cold-Start to Stabilization: A Dual-Prototype Framework for Online Any-Shot Continual LearningChengyan Liu, Linglan Zhao, Juping Gu … Fan LyuICASSP · Suzhou University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  41. 2026
    Generalized few-shot intent detection by prompt learning without forgettingChaiyut Luoyiching, Yangning Li, Rongsheng Li … Hong‐Gee KimNeural Computing and Applications · University Town of Shenzhen · Tsinghua University · +3
  42. 2026
    LDEPrompt: Layer-importance guided Dual Expandable Prompt Pool for Pre-trained Model-based Class-Incremental LearningLinjie Li, Zhenyu Wu, Huiyu Xiao, Jie YangICASSP · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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  43. 2026
    Rehearsing High Confident Samples via Masked Optimal Transportation for Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Named Entity RecognitionZhiyuan Ma, Miaomiao Gu, Jialin Cao … Dan LiuICASSP · Machine Intelligence Research Institute
  44. 2026
    Revisiting Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Knowledge Graph EmbeddingGerard Pons, Carlos Escolano, Besim Bilalli, Anna QueraltarXiv
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  45. 2026
    Revisiting Prototypes for Open-Domain Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsYadong Lu, Shitian Zhao, Boxiang Yun … Yue WangICASSP · East China Normal University
  46. 2026
    Sard: Similarity-Aligned Reminiscence and Distillation for Exemplar-Free Class-Incremental LearningSeongsu Kim, In-Soo Kim, Sangwoo Yun … Joonki PaikICASSP · Chung-Ang University
  47. 2026
    SCI-GR: Sequential Controllable Inpainting-Based Generative Replay For Class-Incremental Object DetectionNuohan Xue, Caixia Yan, Yi-Xiang Wang … Yudeng XinICASSP · Xi'an Jiaotong University · The University of Melbourne
  48. 2026
    The Stability-Plasticity Dilemma Revisited: A Brain-Inspired Continual Learning Method with Representation-Function SeparationYuyang Han, Li Z, Zhiying Long, Xia WuICASSP · Beijing Normal University · Beijing Institute of Technology · +2
  49. 2026
    EKPC: Elastic Knowledge Preservation and Compensation for Class-Incremental LearningHuaijie Wang, De Cheng, Lingfeng He … Xinbo GaoIJCV · Xidian University · Northwestern Polytechnical University
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    IncreFA: Breaking the Static Wall of Generative Model AttributionHaotian Qin, Dongliang Chang, Yueying Gao … Zhanyu MaCVPR
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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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