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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. 2026
    Joint sparse coding and temporal dynamics support context reconfigurationQianqian Shi, Yue Che, Faqiang Liu … Luping ShiarXiv
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  2. 2025
    Hybrid neural networks for continual learning inspired by corticohippocampal circuitsQianqian Shi, Faqiang Liu, Hongyi Li … Rong ZhaoNature Communications · Chinese Institute for Brain Research · Tsinghua University · +1
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  3. 2025
    Adaptive Synaptic Scaling in Spiking Networks for Continual Learning and Enhanced RobustnessMingkun Xu, Faqiang Liu, Yifan Hu … Lei DengTNNLS · Guangdong Polytechnic of Science and Technology · Tsinghua University · +2
  4. 2022
    Endowing Spiking Neural Networks with Homeostatic Adaptivity for APS-DVS Bimodal ScenariosMingkun Xu, Faqiang Liu, Jing PeiINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION · Tsinghua University
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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