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The foundational work on continual learning, 1980 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Towards class-incremental open-set scenarios for video-based action recognition.Yuanshuai Gou, Chengcen Zhong, Xun GongNeural Networks · Southwest Jiaotong University · Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
  2. 2026
    TriP: A triple-prompt framework aligning pre-training and class-incremental objectives in continual graph learning.Can-Ming Cui, Hui-yu Zhou, Pei-Yuan Lai, Chang‐Dong WangNeural Networks · Sun Yat-sen University · Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Health and Family Planning · +1
  3. 2026
    SD2-SNN: Self-distillation and structural decomposition framework for SNNs in continual learningZhenhao Xie, Xia Xiao, Hongsheng Zhang … Zhong JiNeural Networks · Tianjin University
  4. 2026
    ASMem: Anchor sparse memory for multi-domain knowledge editing of large language modelsGuanyu Zheng, Zhenyu Wang, Yang Zhao … Chengqing ZongNeural Networks · South China University of Technology · Shandong Institute of Automation · +3
  5. 2026
  6. 2026
    Logits -with-correlation-based distillation for class incremental learning with limited initial classesJie Du, Jing Wang (6206297), Wenbing Chen … Tianfu WangNeural Networks · Shenzhen University Health Science Center · Peng Cheng Laboratory
  7. 2026
    Randomized neural network with adaptive forward regularization for online task-free class incremental learningJunda Wang, Minghui Hu, Ning Li … Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanNeural Networks · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University · +1
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  8. 2026
    CogniSNN: Enabling neuron-expandability, pathway-reusability, and dynamic-configurability in spiking neural networksYongsheng Huang, Peibo Duan, Yujie Wu … Mingkun XuNeural Networks · Northeastern University · Hong Kong Polytechnic University · +2
  9. 2026
    Learning forward-compatible and domain-invariant representations for cross-domain few-shot class-incremental learningWeidong Shi, Xudong Yan, Jiazheng Yuan … Songhe FengNeural Networks · Beijing Jiaotong University · Beijing Normal University · +3
  10. 2026
  11. 2026
    Dynamic expandable framework for incremental anomaly detectionYuxuan Tan, Hongxia Gao, Tongtong Liu, Xiaoqin WenNeural Networks · Xi'an Jiaotong University · South China University of Technology
  12. 2026
    Towards continual low-light image enhancement through causal inferenceFan Ji, Hao Li, Jiangmeng Li … Fanjiang XuNeural Networks · Institute of Software · Aerospace Information Research Institute · +1
  13. 2026
    Continual few-shot named entity recognition against catastrophic forgetting and overfittingYuanyuan Zhao, S.L. Zhao, S.L. Zhao, Minghu WangNeural Networks · Hebei University of Economics and Business · Hebei Normal University
  14. 2026
    Locally adaptive compensation for analytic class-incremental learningHaoyuan Chen, Nuobei Shi, Ling Chen, Raymond S.T. LeeNeural Networks · Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University · Hong Kong Baptist University · +2
  15. 2026
    A Multi-Agent Continual reinforcement learning framework with multi-Timescale replay and dynamic task classificationYang Liu, Xiang Feng, Huiqun YuNeural Networks · East China University of Science and Technology
  16. 2026
    A continual learning framework with long-term and multiple short-term memory networksShangge Liu, Lei Wang, Rui Yan … Yang GaoNeural Networks · Nanjing Tech University · University of Wollongong · +2
  17. 2026
    Lifelong knowledge graph embedding via diffusion modelDeyu Chen, Caicai Guo, Qiyuan Li … Hong ZhuNeural Networks · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Wuhan University of Science and Technology
  18. 2026
    Key-Value Pair-Free Continual Learner via Task-Specific Prompt-PrototypeHaihua Luo, Xuming Ran, Zhengji Li … Fengyu CongNeural Networks · University of Jyväskylä · National University of Singapore · +3
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  19. 2026
    Lifelong person re-identification via dynamically knowledge adaptation and retentionZhiyu Chen, Bingliang Jiao, Wenxuan Wang, Peng WangNeural Networks
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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