Related work

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

256 papers of 11,817 · showing 1–50Sort Recent · Most cited
  1. 2026PDF ↗
  2. 2026
    LCA: Local Classifier Alignment for Continual LearningTung Tran, Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas, K. ThânICLR
    PDF ↗
  3. 2026
    Principled Fast and Meta Knowledge Learners for Continual Reinforcement LearningKe Sun, Hongming Zhang, Junwu Jin … Linglong KongICLR
    PDF ↗
  4. 2026
    IDER: IDempotent Experience Replay for Reliable Continual LearningZhan Liu, Yuting Li, Haoyuan Gao … Weiran HuangICLR
    PDF ↗
  5. 2026
    Revisiting Weight Regularization for Low-Rank Continual LearningYaoyue Zheng, Yin Zhang, J. Weijer … Zhiqiang TianICLR
    PDF ↗
  6. 2026PDF ↗
  7. 2026
    KeepLoRA: Continual Learning with Residual Gradient AdaptationMao-Lin Luo, Zi-Hao Zhou, Yi-Lin Zhang … Min-Ling ZhangICLR
    PDF ↗
  8. 2026
    MERGETUNE: Continued fine-tuning of vision-language modelsWenqing Wang, Da Li, Xiatian Zhu, Josef KittlerICLR
    PDF ↗
  9. 2026
  10. 2026PDF ↗
  11. 2026
  12. 2026
  13. 2026
  14. 2026
  15. 2026
  16. 2026
  17. 2026
  18. 2026
  19. 2026PDF ↗
  20. 2026
  21. 2026
  22. 2026
  23. 2026
  24. 2026
  25. 2026
  26. 2026
  27. 2026
  28. 2026
  29. 2026
  30. 2026PDF ↗
  31. 2026
    Heads collapse, features stay: Why Replay needs big buffersGiulia Lanzillotta, D. Meier, Thomas HofmannICLR
    PDF ↗
  32. 2026PDF ↗
  33. 2026PDF ↗
  34. 2026PDF ↗
  35. 2026PDF ↗
  36. 2026PDF ↗
  37. 2026
    Rethinking Continual Learning with Progressive Neural CollapseZheng Wang, Wanhao Yu, Li Yang, Sen LinICLR
    PDF ↗
  38. 2026PDF ↗
  39. 2026PDF ↗
  40. 2025
    Privacy-Aware Lifelong LearningOzan Özdenizci, Elmar Rueckert, R. LegensteinICLR
    PDF ↗
  41. 2025PDF ↗
  42. 2026
    Sculpting Subspaces: Constrained Full Fine-Tuning in LLMs for Continual LearningN. Nayak, Krishnateja Killamsetty, Ligong Han … Akash SrivastavaICLR
    PDF ↗
  43. 2025
    Meta-Continual Learning of Neural FieldsSeungyoon Woo, Junhyeog Yun, Gunhee KimICLR
    PDF ↗
  44. 2025
  45. 2026
    Enhanced Continual Learning of Vision-Language Models with Model FusionHaoyu Gao, Zicong Zhang, Yu-Qi Wei … Weiran HuangICLR
    PDF ↗
  46. 2025
    CLDyB: Towards Dynamic Benchmarking for Continual Learning with Pre-trained ModelsShengzhuang Chen, Y. Liao, Xiaoxiao Sun … Ying WeiICLR
    PDF ↗
  47. 2025
    A theory of initialisation’s impact on specialisationDevon Jarvis, Sebastian Lee, Clémentine Carla Juliette Dominé … Stefano Sarao MannelliICLR
    PDF ↗
  48. 2025
    STAR: Stability-Inducing Weight Perturbation for Continual LearningMasih Eskandar, Tooba Imtiaz, Davin Hill … Jennifer G. DyICLR
    PDF ↗
  49. 2025
    Advancing Prompt-Based Methods for Replay-Independent General Continual LearningZhiqi Kang, Liyuan Wang, Xingxing Zhang, Alahari KarteekICLR
    PDF ↗
  50. 2025
    Accurate Forgetting for Heterogeneous Federated Continual LearningAbudukelimu Wuerkaixi, Sen Cui, Jingfeng Zhang … Masashi SugiyamaICLR
    PDF ↗
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.

Missing something, or filed under the wrong venue? Write to hello@unify.ai with the arXiv id or DOI.