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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025PDF ↗
  2. 2024
    Deep Policy Gradient Methods Without Batch Updates, Target Networks, or Replay BuffersGautham Vasan, Mohamed Elsayed, Alireza Azimi … A. Rupam MahmoodNeurIPS
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  3. 2024
    Weight Clipping for Deep Continual and Reinforcement LearningMohamed Elsayed, Qingfeng Lan, Clare Lyle, A. Rupam MahmoodRLJ
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  6. 2023
    Maintaining Plasticity in Deep Continual LearningShibhansh Dohare, J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia, Parash Rahman … Richard S. SuttonarXiv
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  8. 2023
    Memory-efficient Reinforcement Learning with Value-based Knowledge ConsolidationQingfeng Lan, Yangchen Pan, Jun Luo, A. Rupam MahmoodTMLR
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  9. 2021
    Continual Backprop: Stochastic Gradient Descent with Persistent RandomnessShibhansh Dohare, Richard S. Sutton, A. Rupam MahmoodarXiv · University of Alberta
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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 lists only papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or led by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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