Continual Learning papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Continual Learning went from 77 papers in 2023 to 131 in 2026, roughly 1.7x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Continual Learning work: 121 papers from 2023 to 2026, 32% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Low-Rank Adaptation: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 16 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Meta-Learning and Transfer, it ranks #5 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Foundation Model Adaptation, is up 3.8x versus 1.7x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026Bayes-pFCL:Bayesian Personalized Federated Continual Learning
• ICML 2026Beyond Buffer Limits: Energy-Based Data Reassembly for Continual Learning
• ICLR 2026FlyPrompt: Brain-Inspired Random-Expanded Routing with Temporal-Ensemble Experts for General Continual Learning
• CVPR 2026A Faster Path to Continual Learning
• NeurIPS 2025AnaCP: Toward Upper-Bound Continual Learning via Analytic Contrastive Projection
• ICML 2025BECAME: Bayesian Continual Learning with Adaptive Model Merging
• ICLR 2025Active Learning for Continual Learning: Keeping the Past Alive in the Present
• CVPR 2025AdaptCMVC: Robust Adaption to Incremental Views in Continual Multi-view Clustering
• NeurIPS 2024CoIN: A Benchmark of Continual Instruction Tuning for Multimodel Large Language Models
• ICML 2024An Effective Dynamic Gradient Calibration Method for Continual Learning
• ICLR 2024A Probabilistic Framework for Modular Continual Learning
• CVPR 2024Defense without Forgetting: Continual Adversarial Defense with Anisotropic & Isotropic Pseudo Replay
• NeurIPS 2023Aging with GRACE: Lifelong Model Editing with Discrete Key-Value Adaptors
• ICML 2023Constant Matters: Fine-grained Error Bound on Differentially Private Continual Observation
• ICLR 2023Artificial Neuronal Ensembles with Learned Context Dependent Gating
• CVPR 2023Achieving a Better Stability-Plasticity Trade-Off via Auxiliary Networks in Continual Learning
• NeurIPS 2026Beyond Exemplar Selection: Value-Aware Memory Allocation in Replay-Based Continual Learning
• ICML 2026BTSP-CAM: A Brain-Inspired Geometric Memory for Class-Incremental Learning
• ICLR 2026IDER: IDEMPOTENT EXPERIENCE REPLAY FOR RELIABLE CONTINUAL LEARNING
• CVPR 2026AdaPrior Bayesian-Inspired Adaptive Prior Correction for Long-Tailed Continual Learning

All Continual Learning papers

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1. CVPR 2026A Faster Path to Continual Learning
2. CVPR 2026AdaPrior Bayesian-Inspired Adaptive Prior Correction for Long-Tailed Continual Learning
3. CVPR 2026Affordance-First Decomposition for Continual Learning in Video-Language Understanding
4. CVPR 2026CGL Advancing Continual GUI Learning via Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
5. CVPR 2026CHEEM Continual Learning by Reuse New Adapt and Skip -
6. CVPR 2026Continual Distillation of Teachers from Different Domains
7. CVPR 2026Continual Learning for fMRI-Based Brain Disorder Diagnosis via Functional Connectivity
8. CVPR 2026Critical Patch-Aware Sparse Prompting with Decoupled Training for Continual Learning
9. CVPR 2026Elastic Weight Consolidation Done Right for Continual Learning
10. CVPR 2026Exemplar-Free Continual Learning for State Space Models
11. CVPR 2026Is Parameter Isolation Better for Prompt-Based Continual Learning
12. CVPR 2026Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning with Dynamic Gradient Guidance
13. CVPR 2026Octopus History-Free Gradient Orthogonalization for Continual Learning in Multimodal Large
14. CVPR 2026Parameter-efficient Continual Learning for Enhancing Plasticity without Forgetting under Limited
15. CVPR 2026phi-DPO Fairness Direct Preference Optimization Approach to Continual Learning in
16. CVPR 2026Re-evaluating Continual VQA Toward Fair and Robust Evaluation for Multimodal
17. CVPR 2026Resolving the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma in Reinforcement Learning via Complementary Continual
18. CVPR 2026Robustness Under Data Scarcity Few-Shot Continual Adversarial Training for Evolving
19. CVPR 2026Spectral Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Learning
20. CVPR 2026Subspace Alignment for CLIP-based Continual Learning via Canonical Correlation Analysis
21. CVPR 2026Towards Dynamic Modality Alignment in Multimodal Continual Learning
22. CVPR 2026Towards Stable Federated Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Wild World
23. CVPR 2025AdaptCMVC: Robust Adaption to Incremental Views in Continual Multi-view Clustering
24. CVPR 2025Advancing Multiple Instance Learning with Continual Learning for Whole Slide Imaging
25. CVPR 2025Beyond Background Shift: Rethinking Instance Replay in Continual Semantic Segmentation
26. CVPR 2025BiLoRA: Almost-Orthogonal Parameter Spaces for Continual Learning
27. CVPR 2025CL-MoE: Enhancing Multimodal Large Language Model with Dual Momentum Mixture-of-Experts for Continual Visual Question Answering
28. CVPR 2025ConceptGuard: Continual Personalized Text-to-Image Generation with Forgetting and Confusion Mitigation
29. CVPR 2025Continual SFT Matches Multimodal RLHF with Negative Supervision
30. CVPR 2025Do Your Best and Get Enough Rest for Continual Learning
31. CVPR 2025FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene Understanding
32. CVPR 2025Handling Spatial-Temporal Data Heterogeneity for Federated Continual Learning via Tail Anchor
33. CVPR 2025KAC: Kolmogorov-Arnold Classifier for Continual Learning
34. CVPR 2025Language Guided Concept Bottleneck Models for Interpretable Continual Learning
35. CVPR 2025LoRA Subtraction for Drift-Resistant Space in Exemplar-Free Continual Learning
36. CVPR 2025One-for-More: Continual Diffusion Model for Anomaly Detection
37. CVPR 2025Online Task-Free Continual Learning via Dynamic Expansionable Memory Distribution
38. CVPR 2025ProtoDepth: Unsupervised Continual Depth Completion with Prototypes
39. CVPR 2025Rethinking Query-based Transformer for Continual Image Segmentation
40. CVPR 2025Self-Expansion of Pre-trained Models with Mixture of Adapters for Continual Learning
41. CVPR 2025Synthetic Data is an Elegant GIFT for Continual Vision-Language Models
42. CVPR 2025Towards Continual Universal Segmentation
43. CVPR 2024BrainWash: A Poisoning Attack to Forget in Continual Learning
44. CVPR 2024Consistent Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning
45. CVPR 2024Continual Forgetting for Pre-trained Vision Models
46. CVPR 2024Continual Learning for Motion Prediction Model via Meta-Representation Learning and Optimal Memory Buffer Retention Strategy
47. CVPR 2024Continual Segmentation with Disentangled Objectness Learning and Class Recognition
48. CVPR 2024Continual Self-supervised Learning: Towards Universal Multi-modal Medical Data Representation Learning
49. CVPR 2024Convolutional Prompting meets Language Models for Continual Learning
50. CVPR 2024Defense without Forgetting: Continual Adversarial Defense with Anisotropic & Isotropic Pseudo Replay

FAQ

How many Continual Learning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

381 in total: 77 in 2023, 69 in 2024, 104 in 2025, 131 in 2026.

How many Continual Learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 39 Continual Learning papers, versus 32 the year before.

How many Continual Learning papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 28 Continual Learning papers, versus 23 the year before.

How many Continual Learning papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 42 Continual Learning papers, versus 29 the year before.

How many Continual Learning papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 22 Continual Learning papers, versus 20 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Continual Learning papers?

NeurIPS, with 121 papers from 2023 to 2026.