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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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  1. 2026
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    PILA'26: Personal Intelligence in Agentic AI EraXiaoyan Zhao, Yang Zhang, Moxin Li … Yang SongKDD
  9. 2026
    Self-Regulating Prompt Expansion for Continual LearningYiwen Wang, Diana Benavides-Prado, Yun Sing KohKDD
  10. 2026
  11. 2026
    Sparsity Curse: Understanding RLVR Model Parameter Space from Model MergingChenrui Wu, Zexi Li, Jiajun Bu … Haishuai WangKDD
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    cPNN: Continuous Progressive Neural Networks for Evolving Streaming Time SeriesFederico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer, Emanuele Della ValleKDD
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  17. 2026
    TS-Memory: Plug-and-Play Memory for Time Series Foundation ModelsSisuo Lyu, Siru Zhong, Tiegang Chen … Yuxuan LiangKDD
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  18. 2026
    CREAM: Continual Retrieval on Dynamic Streaming Corpora with Adaptive Soft MemoryHuiJeong Son, Hyeongu Kang, Sunho Kim … Susik YoonKDD
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  22. 2025
    ErrorEraser: Unlearning Data Bias for Improved Continual LearningXuemei Cao, Hanlin Gu, Xin Yang … Tianrui LiKDD
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    PrePrompt: Predictive Prompting for Class Incremental LearningLibo Huang, Xiang-Qi Li, Jia-Rui Zhao … Yong-Jun XuKDD
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  26. 2024
    Linked Adapters: Linking Past and Future to Present for Effective Continual LearningDupati Srikar Chandra, P. K. Srijith, Dana Rezazadegan, Chris MccarthyKDD
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  27. 2024
    Federated Continual Graph LearningYin-Lin Zhu, Miao Hu, Di WuKDD
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  28. 2024
    Fair Class-Incremental Learning using Sample WeightingJaeyoung Park, Minsu Kim, Steven Euijong WhangKDD
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  30. 2024
    Sketch-Based Replay Projection for Continual LearningJack Julian, Yun Sing Koh, Albert BifetKDD
  31. 2024
    Learning Causal Networks from Episodic DataOsman Mian, S. Mameche, J. VreekenKDD
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  34. 2024
    Topology-aware Embedding Memory for Continual Learning on Expanding NetworksXikun Zhang, Dongjin Song, Yixin Chen, Dacheng TaoKDD
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  35. 2023
  36. 2023
    Task Relation-aware Continual User Representation LearningSein Kim, Namkyeong Lee, Donghyun Kim … Chanyoung ParkKDD
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  37. 2023
    Using Flexible Memories to Reduce Catastrophic ForgettingWernsen Wong, Yun Sing Koh, G. DobbieKDD
  38. 2022
    Streaming Graph Neural Networks with Generative ReplayJunshan Wang, Wenhao Zhu, Guojie Song, Liang WangKDD · Alibaba Group (China) · Peking University
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    Geometer: Graph Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Prototype RepresentationBin Lü, Xiaoying Gan, Lina Yang … Xinbing WangKDD · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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    Adaptive Fairness-Aware Online Meta-Learning for Changing EnvironmentsChen Zhao, Feng Mi, Xintao Wu … Feng ChenKDD · The University of Texas at Dallas · University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
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    Preventing Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning of New Natural Language TasksSudipta Kar, Giuseppe Castellucci, Simone Filice … Oleg RokhlenkoKDD · Amazon (United States)
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  42. 2022
    ILASR: Privacy-Preserving Incremental Learning for Automatic Speech Recognition at Production ScaleGopinath Chennupati, Milind Rao, Gurpreet Chadha … Pankaj SitpureKDD · Amazon (United States)
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  48. 2020
    Lambda Learner: Fast Incremental Learning on Data StreamsRohan Ramanath, Konstantin Salomatin, Jeffrey D. Gee … Deepak KumarKDD · LinkedIn (United States)
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  50. 1999
    Handling concept drifts in incremental learning with support vector machinesNadeem Ahmed Syed, Huan Liu, Kah Kay SungKDD · National University of Singapore
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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