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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
    CREAM: Continual Retrieval on Dynamic Streaming Corpora with Adaptive Soft MemoryHuijeong Son, Hyeongu Kang, Sunho Kim … Susik YoonKDD · Korea University · Yonsei University
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    Train Separately, Merge Together: Modular Post-Training with Mixture-of-ExpertsJacob Morrison, Sanjay Adhikesaven, Akshita Bhagia … Sewon MinarXiv
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    Mistake gating leads to energy and memory efficient continual learningAaron Pache, Mark C. W. van RossumbioRxiv · University of Nottingham
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    Task Switching Without Forgetting via Proximal DecouplingPourya Shamsolmoali, Masoumeh Zareapoor, Eric Granger … Yue LuarXiv
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    CSBoRA: A continual learning method for large language models with true orthogonality and reduced forgettingYuyang Liu, Lai-Man Po, Farrell Hung … Kwok-Wai CheungPattern Recognition · City University of Hong Kong · nLIGHT (United States) · +2
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    JumpLoRA: Sparse Adapters for Continual Learning in Large Language ModelsAlexandra Dragomir, Ioana Pintilie, Antonio Bărbălau … Radu Tudor IonescuarXiv
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    Why Fine-Tuning Encourages Hallucinations and How to Fix ItGuy Kaplan, Zorik Gekhman, Zhen Zhu … Roy SchwartzarXiv
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  12. 2026
    CI-CBM: Class-Incremental Concept Bottleneck Model for Interpretable Continual LearningAmirhosein Javadi, Tuomas Oikarinen, Tara Javidi, Tsui-Wei WengTMLR
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    CobwebTM: Probabilistic Concept Formation for Lifelong and Hierarchical Topic ModelingKarthik Singaravadivelan, Anant Gupta, Zekun Wang, Christopher MaclellanACL
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  16. 2026
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting With Adaptive Transformer Block Expansion in Federated Fine-TuningYujia Huo, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu … Liusheng HuangIEEE Transactions · University of Science and Technology of China · China University of Mining and Technology
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  17. 2026
    DECODE: Domain-Aware Continual Domain Expansion for Motion PredictionBoqi Li, Haojie Zhu, Henry LiuTPAMI · University of Michigan
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    A Faster Path to Continual LearningWei Li, Hangjie Yuan, Zixiang Zhao … Tao FengCVPR
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  19. 2026
    HiEdit: Lifelong Model Editing with Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningYangfan Wang, Tianyang Sun, Chen Tang … Jingchi JiangACL
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    ReBac: Current-to-Past Residual Background Correction for Class-Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuangyu Gao, Anqi Zhang, Jianbo Jiao … Yunchao WeiIJCV · Beijing Institute of Technology · University of Birmingham · +1
  22. 2026
    Model Editing for New Document Integration in Generative Information RetrievalZ C Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xinyu Ma … Zhaochun RenACM Web Conference 2026 · Shandong University · Qingdao University · +4
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  23. 2026
    A Layer-wise Analysis of Supervised Fine-TuningQinghua Zhao, Xueling Gong, Xinyu Chen … Xinlu LiACL
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  24. 2026
    Graph Cross-Domain Continual Fine-Tuning via Orthogonal LoRA Routing with Contrastive Expert SpecializationQianyi Cai, Ziyue Qiao, Minghao Yang … Hui XiongACM Web Conference 2026 · Great Bay University · University of Wisconsin–Madison
  25. 2026
    Bias Calibration for Semi-Supervised Continual LearningZhong Ji, Zhanyu Jiao, Deyu Miao, Chen TangSensors · Tianjin University
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    Singular Value Fine-Tuning for Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningZhiwu Wang, Yichen Wu, Renzhen Wang … Deyu MengIEEE TCSVT · Xi'an Jiaotong University · City University of Hong Kong
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    Continual Graph Learning with Topology-Aware Knowledge DistillationY B Zhang, Liu Y, Dongdong Du … Wen WangInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and I… · Tiangong University · China Internet Network Information Center
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    Quadruplet Augmentation With Attribute and Structure Invariance for Online Continual LearningJiamin Wu, Shaofan Wang, Yanan Sun … Baocai YinMemberTPAMI · Beijing University of Technology · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence
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    SafeAdapt: Provably Safe Policy Updates in Deep Reinforcement LearningMaksim Anisimov, Francesco Belardinelli, Matthew WickerarXiv · Imperial College London
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    Generalized Incremental Learning under Concept Drift across Evolving Data StreamsEn Yu, Jie Lü, Guangquan ZhangWWW · University of Technology Sydney
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    Class-Domain Incremental Learning on Graphs via Disentangled Knowledge DistillationQin Tian, Chen Zhao, Xintao Wu … Wenjun WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Tianjin University · Baylor University · +2
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    Enhancing Federated Class-Incremental Learning via Spatial-Temporal Statistics AggregationZenghao Guan, Guojun Zhu, Zhou Yucan … Xiaoyan GuWWW · Institute of Information Engineering · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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    Symbiotic-MoE: Unlocking the Synergy between Generation and UnderstandingXiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang … Ping TanarXiv
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    We Need a More Robust Classifier: Dual Causal Learning Empowers Domain-Incremental Time Series ClassificationZhipeng Liu, Peibo Duan, Xuan Tang … Binwu WangACM Web Conference 2026 · Northeastern University · Xi'an Jiaotong University · +2
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    Space-based Parameter Evolving with Lightweight Optimization for Graph Adaptation to Evolving ShiftsJunyu Luo, Zixuan Ouyang, Xiao Luo … Ming ZhangACM Web Conference 2026 · Peking University · University of Wisconsin–Madison · +2
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    Fast Spatial Memory with Elastic Test-Time TrainingZiqiao Ma, Xueyang Yu, Haoyu Zhen … Chuang GanarXiv
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    Incomplete cross-modality class-incremental learning in visible-thermal recognitionXinjie Yao, Yanxian Bi, Yu Wang … Qinghua HuPattern Recognition · Kunming University of Science and Technology · Tianjin University · +5
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    LifelongPR: Lifelong Point Cloud Place Recognition Based on Sample Replay and Prompt LearningXianghong Zou, Jianping Li, Zhe Chen … Bisheng YangIEEE T-ITS · Nanchang University · Nanyang Technological University
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    Towards continual low-light image enhancement through causal inferenceFan Ji, Hao Li, Jiangmeng Li … Fanjiang XuNeural Networks · Institute of Software · Aerospace Information Research Institute · +1
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    Incremental Micro-Expression Recognition: A BenchmarkZhengqin Lai, Xiaopeng Hong, Yabin Wang, Xiaobai LiIEEE Transactions · Harbin Institute of Technology · Zhejiang University
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    CL-VISTA: Benchmarking Continual Learning in Video Large Language ModelsHaiyang Guo, Yichen Shi, Fei Zhu … Xu-Yao ZhangarXiv
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    Class Incremental Learning and Auxiliary Unlabelled Data: The Importance of Neutral ExamplesIgor Sieradzki, Łukasz Struski, I. Podolak, Romuald Aleksander JanikMachine Learning · Jagiellonian University
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    ODGNet: Learning Dynamic Variable Association for Online Time Series ForecastingYushuo Liu, Yulong Wang, Kai WangTKDE · Nankai University
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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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