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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. 2025
    Unforgotten Safety: Preserving Safety Alignment of Large Language Models with Continual LearningLama Alssum, Hani Itani, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud … Bernard GhanemarXiv
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  2. 2024
    Continual Learning on a Diet: Learning from Sparsely Labeled Streams Under Constrained ComputationWenxuan Zhang, Youssef Mohamed, Bernard Ghanem … Mohamed ElhoseinyICLR
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  3. 2024PDF ↗
  4. 2024
    RanDumb: Random Representations Outperform Online Continually Learned RepresentationsAmeya Prabhu, Shiven Sinha, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru … Puneet K. DokaniaNeurIPS
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  5. 2024
    From Categories to Classifiers: Name-Only Continual Learning by Exploring the WebAmeya Prabhu, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ser-Nam Lim … Adel BibiCoLLAs
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  6. 2023
    Rapid Adaptation in Online Continual Learning: Are We Evaluating It Right?Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ameya Prabhu, Ser-Nam Lim … Bernard GhanemICCV · Kootenay Association for Science & Technology · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · +1
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  7. 2024
    Fine-tuning can cripple your foundation model; preserving features may be the solutionJishnu Mukhoti, Yarin Gal, Philip H. S. Torr, Puneet K. DokaniaTMLR
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  8. 2023PDF ↗
  9. 2023
    Computationally Budgeted Continual Learning: What Does Matter?Ameya Prabhu, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Puneet K. Dokania … Adel BibiCVPR · University of Oxford · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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  10. 2023
    Real-Time Evaluation in Online Continual Learning: A New HopeYasir Ghunaim, Adel Bibi, Kumail Alhamoud … Bernard GhanemCVPR · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · University of Oxford
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  11. 2023
    Online Continual Learning Without the Storage ConstraintAmeya Prabhu, Zhipeng Cai, Puneet K. Dokania … Ozan ŞenerarXiv
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  12. 2023
    Real-Time Evaluation in Online Continual Learning: A New ParadigmYasir Ghunaim, Adel Bibi, K. Alhamoud … Bernard GhanemarXiv
  13. 2023
    From Categories to Classifier: Name-Only Continual Learning by Exploring the WebAmeya Prabhu, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Ser-Nam Lim … Adel BibiarXiv
  14. 2023
    Label Delay in Continual LearningBotos Csaba, Wenxuan Zhang, Matthias Müller … Adel BibiarXiv
  15. 2022
    Mimicking the Oracle: An Initial Phase Decorrelation Approach for Class Incremental LearningYujun Shi, Kuangqi Zhou, Jian Liang … Vincent Y. F. TanCVPR · National University of Singapore · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  16. 2021
    Using Hindsight to Anchor Past Knowledge in Continual LearningArslan Chaudhry, Albert Gordo, Puneet K. Dokania … David López-PazAAAI · University of Oxford · Meta (Israel)
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  17. 2020
    Continual Learning in Low-rank Orthogonal SubspacesArslan Chaudhry, Naeemullah Khan, Puneet K. Dokania, Philip H. S. TorrNeurIPS · University of Oxford
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  18. 2020
    GDumb: A Simple Approach that Questions Our Progress in Continual LearningAmeya Prabhu, Philip H. S. Torr, Puneet K. DokaniaECCV · University of Oxford
  19. 2019
    On Tiny Episodic Memories in Continual LearningArslan Chaudhry, Marcus Rohrbach, Mohamed Elhoseiny … M. RanzatoPreprint
  20. 2019
    Continual Learning with Tiny Episodic MemoriesArslan Chaudhry, Marcus Rohrbach, Mohamed Elhoseiny … Marc’Aurelio RanzatoarXiv · University of Oxford
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  21. 2018
    Riemannian Walk for Incremental Learning: Understanding Forgetting and IntransigenceArslan Chaudhry, Puneet K. Dokania, Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan, Philip H. S. TorrECCV · University of Oxford
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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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