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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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    Dynamic Deep Prompt Optimization for Defending Against Jailbreak Attacks on LLMsDoniyorkhon Obidov, H. Yu, Xiaolong Guo, Kaichen YangAAAI
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    Discovering Hybrid World Representations with Co-Evolving Foundation ModelsJiajun Wu, Yun-Zhi Zhang, Hong-Xing Yu … Jiayuan MaoAAAI
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    Learning Adaptive and Expandable Mixture Model for Continual LearningFei Ye, Yong Zhong, Qihe Liu … Shi-Jie ZhouAAAI
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    MARLIN: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Incremental DAG DiscoveryDong Li, Zheng-Zhang Chen, Xujiang Zhao … Chen ZhaoAAAI
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    Online Cross-Modal Hashing with Expanding Label SpaceWentao Fan, Chao Zhang, Chunlin Chen, Huaxiong LiAAAI
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    Topology-aware Knowledge Preservation for Class-Incremental LearningHan Zang, Yongfeng Dong, L. Li … Yu WangAAAI
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    Towards Multimodal Continual Knowledge Embedding wth Modality Forgetting ModulationXiao-Wen Jiang, Jing Yang, Shundong Yang … Jie-Ming YangAAAI
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    Composition-Incremental Learning for Compositional GeneralizationZhen Li, Yuwei Wu, Chenchen Jing … Yunde JiaAAAI
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    Parameter Merging with Gradient-Guided Supermasks in Online Continual LearningBenliu Qiu, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang … Hongliang LiAAAI
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    Source-Free Graph Foundation Model Adaptation via Pseudo-Source ReconstructionLiang Yang, Hui Ning, Jiaming Zhuo … Zhen WangAAAI
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    Vision-language Incremental Learning with Dual Class-individual MemoryFuhai Chen, Feng Zhang, Xiao-Guang Ma … Xuri GeAAAI
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    Lifelong Language-Conditioned Robotic Manipulation LearningXudong Wang, Ze-Bin Han, Zhi-Yu Liu … Zhi HanAAAI
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    Attention Retention for Continual Learning with Vision TransformersYue Lu, Xiangyu Zhou, Shizhou Zhang … Wencong ZhangAAAI
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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 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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