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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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    Hyperbolic Multimodal Continual LearningJiahong Liu, Ming Shen, Xiaohao Liu … Irwin KingICML
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    Symbiosis-Inspired Knowledge Distillation for Incremental Object DetectionMingyue Zeng, De Cheng, Zhipeng Xu … Xinbo GaoICML
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    SAOT: Self-Supervised Continual Graph Learning with Structure-Aware Optimal TransportYu-Ting Zhang, Yanbei Liu, Zhi-Tao Xiao … Xiao WangICML
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    ECA: Efficient Continual Alignment for Open-Ended Image-to-Text GenerationJiangtao Kong, Peijun Zhao, C. Chen … Huajie ShaoICML
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    Preserving Plasticity in Continual Learning via Dynamical IsometryAndries Rosseau, Robert Müller, Ann NowéICML
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    Active Continual Learning with Metaplastic Binary Bayesian Neural NetworksK. Cottart, T. Ballet, Djohan Bonnet, D. QuerliozICML
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    Janus-LoRA: A Balanced Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual LearningCheng Chen, Pengpeng Zeng, Yuyu Guo … Jingkuan SongICML
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    Energy-Structured Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual LearningLonghua Li, Lei Qi, Qi Tian, Xin GengICML
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    Continual Segmentation under Joint NonstationarityPrashant Pandey, Himanshu Kumar, Devineni Sri Venkatraya Chowdary, B. LallICML
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    Continual Learning of Domain-Invariant RepresentationsPascal Janetzky, T. Schlagenhauf, S. FeuerriegelICML
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    Online Continual Learning with Dynamic Label HierarchiesXin-Rui Wang, Shaoyuan Li, Bartłomiej Twardowski … Songcan ChenICML
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    Skill Neologisms: Towards Skill-based Continual LearningAntonin Berthon, N. Astorga, M. van der SchaarICML
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    XSkill: Continual Learning from Experience and Skills in Multimodal AgentsGuanyu Jiang, Zhaochen Su, Xiaoye Qu, Yi R. FungICML
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    Advancing Analytic Class-Incremental Learning through Vision-Language CalibrationBinyuan Zhao, Wei Zhang, Xingrui Yu … Ivor W. TsangICML
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    MePo: Meta Post-Refinement for Rehearsal-Free General Continual LearningGuang-Long Sun, Hong-Wei Yan, Li-Yuan Wang … Yi ZhongICML
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    Spectral Imbalance Causes Forgetting in Low-Rank Continual AdaptationHao Gu, Mao-Lin Luo, Zi-Hao Zhou … Tong WeiICML
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    Self-Distillation Enables Continual LearningIdan Shenfeld, Mehul Damani, Jonas Hübotter, Pulkit AgrawalICML
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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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