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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
    Foundations of a Developmental Design Paradigm for Integrated Continual Learning, Deliberative Behavior, and ComprehensibilityZeki Doruk Erden, Boi FaltingsIEEE TETCI · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  2. 2025
    Context selectivity with dynamic availability enables lifelong continual learningMartin Barry, Wulfram Gerstner, Guillaume BellecNeural Networks · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  3. 2025
    Modelleyen: Continual Learning and Planning via Structured Modelling of Environment DynamicsZeki Doruk Erden, Boi FaltingsSpringer LNCS · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  4. 2022
    Fast adaptation to rule switching using neuronal surpriseMartin Barry, Wulfram GerstnerbioRxiv · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  5. 2022
    Continual Test-Time Domain AdaptationQin Wang, Olga Fink, Luc Van Gool, Dengxin DaiCVPR · ETH Zurich · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · +1
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  6. 2022
    Class Incremental Learning for Intent Classification with Limited or No Old DataDebjit Paul, Daniil Sorokin, Judith GaspersFirst Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP (EvoNLP) · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  7. 2020
    ADER: Adaptively Distilled Exemplar Replay Towards Continual Learning for Session-based RecommendationFei Mi, Xiaoyu Lin, Boi FaltingsRecSys · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  8. 2020
    Memory Augmented Neural Model for Incremental Session-based RecommendationFei Mi, Boi FaltingsIJCAI · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  9. 2020
    Understanding Regularisation Methods for Continual LearningFrederik BenzingarXiv · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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  10. 2020
    Generalized Class Incremental LearningFei Mi, Lingjing Kong, Tao Lin … Boi FaltingsCVPR · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  11. 2020
    Continual Learning for Natural Language Generation in Task-oriented Dialog SystemsFei Mi, Liangwei Chen, Mengjie Zhao … Boi FaltingsEMNLP · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · LMU Klinikum · +2
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  12. 2019
    Synaptic weight decay with selective consolidation enables fast learning without catastrophic forgettingPascal Leimer, Michael H. Herzog, Walter SennbioRxiv · University of Bern · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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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