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

32 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025AnaCP: Toward Upper-Bound Continual Learning via Analytic Contrastive Projection
2. NeurIPS 2025Are Greedy Task Orderings Better Than Random in Continual Linear Regression?
3. NeurIPS 2025Auto-Compressing Networks
4. NeurIPS 2025C-NAV: Towards Self-Evolving Continual Object Navigation in Open World
5. NeurIPS 2025Compact Memory for Continual Logistic Regression
6. NeurIPS 2025Continual Knowledge Adaptation for Reinforcement Learning
7. NeurIPS 2025Continual Multimodal Contrastive Learning
8. NeurIPS 2025Continuous Subspace Optimization for Continual Learning
9. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Consolidation of Top-Down Modulations Achieves Sparsely Supervised Continual Learning
10. NeurIPS 2025Decentralized Dynamic Cooperation of Personalized Models for Federated Continual Learning
11. NeurIPS 2025Demystifying Language Model Forgetting with Low-rank Example Associations
12. NeurIPS 2025Dual-Space Semantic Synergy Distillation for Continual Learning of Unlabeled Streams
13. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Siamese Expansion Framework for Improving Robustness in Online Continual Learning
14. NeurIPS 2025Federated Continual Learning via Orchestrating Multi-Scale Expertise
15. NeurIPS 2025Gated Integration of Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual Learning of Large Language Models
16. NeurIPS 2025Gradient-Guided Epsilon Constraint Method for Online Continual Learning
17. NeurIPS 2025Hippocampal-like Sequential Editing for Continual Knowledge Updates in Large Language Models
18. NeurIPS 2025Hybrid Re-matching for Continual Learning with Parameter-Efficient Tuning
19. NeurIPS 2025Memory-Integrated Reconfigurable Adapters: A Unified Framework for Settings with Multiple Tasks
20. NeurIPS 2025Merging on the Fly Without Retraining: A Sequential Approach to Scalable Continual Model Merging
21. NeurIPS 2025MINGLE: Mixture of Null-Space Gated Low-Rank Experts for Test-Time Continual Model Merging
22. NeurIPS 2025Mitigating Intra- and Inter-modal Forgetting in Continual Learning of Unified Multimodal Models
23. NeurIPS 2025Online Functional Tensor Decomposition via Continual Learning for Streaming Data Completion
24. NeurIPS 2025Optimal Rates in Continual Linear Regression via Increasing Regularization
25. NeurIPS 2025OVS Meets Continual Learning: Towards Sustainable Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
26. NeurIPS 2025REP: Resource-Efficient Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning
27. NeurIPS 2025Self-Evolving Pseudo-Rehearsal for Catastrophic Forgetting with Task Similarity in LLMs
28. NeurIPS 2025SPICED: A Synaptic Homeostasis-Inspired Framework for Unsupervised Continual EEG Decoding
29. NeurIPS 2025Temporal-Difference Variational Continual Learning
30. NeurIPS 2025The World Is Bigger: A Computationally-Embedded Perspective on the Big World Hypothesis
31. NeurIPS 2025Train with Perturbation, Infer after Merging: A Two-Stage Framework for Continual Learning
32. NeurIPS 2025Turning the Tables: Enabling Backward Transfer via Causal-Aware LoRA in Continual Learning

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.