Related work

The foundational work on continual learning, 1991 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Mistake gating leads to energy and memory efficient continual learningAaron Pache, Mark C. W. van RossumbioRxiv · University of Nottingham
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  2. 2025
    Hippocampal indexing alters the stability landscape of synaptic weight space allowing life-long learningOscar C. González, Ryan Golden, Erik Delanois … Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of Colorado Boulder · University of California San Diego · +3
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  3. 2025
    Ca2+ Plateau Potentials Reflect Cross-Theta Cortico-Hippocampal Input Dynamics and Acetylcholine for Rapid Formation of Efficient Place-Cell CodeHanying Wang, Ying-Chieh Hsu, Hsuan-Pei Huang … Ching-Lung HsubioRxiv · Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica · University of Ottawa
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  4. 2025
    Memory-specific E-I balance supports diverse replay and mitigates catastrophic forgettingTomáš Bárta, Tomoki FukaibioRxiv · Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
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  5. 2025
    Interleaved Replay of Novel and Familiar Memory Traces During Slow-Wave Sleep Prevents Catastrophic ForgettingRyan Golden, Rajat Saxena, Oscar C. González … Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of California San Diego · University of California, Irvine · +2
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  6. 2024
    Stability through plasticity: Finding robust memories through representational driftMaanasa Natrajan, James E. FitzgeraldbioRxiv · Northwestern University · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · +3
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  7. 2022
    Fast adaptation to rule switching using neuronal surpriseMartin Barry, Wulfram GerstnerbioRxiv · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  8. 2019
    Interleaved training prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networksRyan Golden, Jean Erik Delanois, Pavel Šanda, Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of California San Diego · Czech Academy of Sciences · +1
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  9. 2018
    A Neural Model of Schemas and Memory ConsolidationTiffany Hwu, Jeffrey L. KrichmarbioRxiv · University of California, Irvine
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  10. 2018
    Focused learning promotes continual task performance in humansTimo Flesch, Jan Balaguer, Ronald Dekker … Christopher SummerfieldbioRxiv · University of Oxford · Science 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, and only papers with a PDF we can point you at, so every title opens the paper itself. 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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