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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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    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Target Language Adaptation of LLMs via Source-Shielded UpdatesAtsuki Yamaguchi, Terufumi Morishita, Aline Villavicencio, Nikolaos AletrasACL
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    SCALE: Upscaled Continual Learning of Large Language ModelsJin-woo Lee, Junhwa Choi, Bongkyu Hwang … Suk-Hoon JungACL
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    Continual Gradient Low-Rank Projection Fine-Tuning for LLMsChenxu Wang, Yilin Lyu, Zicheng Sun, Liping JingACL
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    Enhancing Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with BranchLoRADu-Zhen Zhang, Yong Ren, Zhongzhi Li … Jinfeng BaiACL
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    Model Editing with Graph-Based External MemoryY. Atri, Ahmed M. Alaa, Thomas HartvigsenACL
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    FairSteer: Inference Time Debiasing for LLMs with Dynamic Activation SteeringYichen Li, Zhiting Fan, Ruizhe Chen … Zuozhu LiuACL
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    SEE: Continual Fine-tuning with Sequential Ensemble of ExpertsZhi-Lin Wang, Yafu Li, Xiaoye Qu, Yu ChengACL
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    TiC-LM: A Web-Scale Benchmark for Time-Continual LLM PretrainingJeffrey Li, Mohammadreza Armandpour, Iman Mirzadeh … Fartash FaghriACL
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    SoftCoT: Soft Chain-of-Thought for Efficient Reasoning with LLMsYige Xu, Xu Guo, Zhiwei Zeng, Chunyan MiaoACL
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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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