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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
    CapyMOA: Efficient Machine Learning for Data Streams and Online Continual Learning in PythonHeitor Murilo Gomes, Anton Lee, Nuwan Gunasekara … Albert BifetarXiv · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Sorbonne Université
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  2. 2023
    A Definition of Open-Ended Learning Problems for Goal-Conditioned AgentsOlivier Sigaud, Gianluca Baldassarre, Cédric Colas … Vieri Giuliano SantucciarXiv · Sorbonne Université · Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique · +5
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  3. 2023
    CoMFormer: Continual Learning in Semantic and Panoptic SegmentationFabio Cermelli, Matthieu Cord, Arthur DouillardCVPR · Politecnico di Torino · Italian Institute of Technology · +2
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  4. 2023
    Building a Subspace of Policies for Scalable Continual LearningJean-Baptiste Gaya, Thang Doan, Lucas Caccia … Roberta RăileanuICLR · Sorbonne Université · Institut Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique · +2
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  5. 2022
    DyTox: Transformers for Continual Learning with DYnamic TOken eXpansionArthur Douillard, Alexandre Ramé, Guillaume Couairon, Matthieu CordCVPR · Sorbonne Université · Valeo (France)
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  6. 2022
    Multi-Head Distillation for Continual Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Semantic SegmentationAntoine Saporta, Arthur Douillard, Tuan-Hung Vu … Matthieu CordCVPR · Valeo (France) · Sorbonne Université
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  7. 2022
    Continual Learning of Long Topic Sequences in Neural Information Retrieval - abstractThomas Gerald, Laure SoulierSpringer LNCS · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Sorbonne Université · +1
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  8. 2021
    PLOP: Learning without Forgetting for Continual Semantic SegmentationArthur Douillard, Yifu Chen, Arnaud Dapogny, Matthieu CordCVPR · Sorbonne Université · Laboratoire Médiations · +1
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  9. 2021
    Insights from the Future for Continual LearningArthur Douillard, Eduardo Valle, Charles Ollion … Matthieu CordCVPR · Sorbonne Université · Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
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  10. 2021
    Studying Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Ranking ModelsJesús Lovón-Melgarejo, Laure Soulier, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Lynda TamineSpringer LNCS · Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier · Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse · +4
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  11. 2015
    Neural Modularity Helps Organisms Evolve to Learn New Skills without Forgetting Old SkillsKai Olav Ellefsen, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Jeff ClunePLOS · Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +3
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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