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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. 2023
    Scalable and Efficient Continual Learning from Demonstration via Hypernetwork-generated Stable Dynamics ModelSayantan Auddy, Jakob Hollenstein, Matteo Saveriano … Justus PiaterIEEE TCDS · Technische Universität Berlin · Universität Innsbruck · +2
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  2. 2026
    CLAIM: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Instruction Fine-tuning Large Language ModelsXihe Qiu, Shaojie Shi, Teqi Hao, Xiaoyu TanIEEE TCDS · Shanghai University of Engineering Science · Fudan University · +1
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  4. 2025
    NI-SSCL: A Neuroplasticity-Inspired Method for Semisupervised Continual LearningGuanglei Xie, Yi Sun, Xin Xu … Xiaochang HuIEEE TCDS · National University of Defense Technology · PLA Academy of Military Science · +3
  5. 2023
    Continual Robot Learning Using Self-Supervised Task InferenceMuhammad Burhan Hafez, Stefan WermterIEEE TCDS · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  6. 2023
    CBCL-PR: A Cognitively Inspired Model for Class-Incremental Learning in RoboticsAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerIEEE TCDS · University of Waterloo · Concordia University · +1
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  7. 2023
    Continual Learning for Anthropomorphic Hand GraspingWanyi Li, Wei Wei, Peng WangIEEE TCDS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +3
  8. 2022
    Neural Manifold Modulated Continual Reinforcement Learning for Musculoskeletal RobotsJiahao Chen, Ziyu Chen, Chaojing Yao, Hong QiaoIEEE TCDS · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
  9. 2021
    3D_DEN: Open-Ended 3-D Object Recognition Using Dynamically Expandable NetworksSudhakaran Jain, Hamidreza KasaeiIEEE TCDS · University of Groningen
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  10. 2020
    Efficient Online Interest-Driven Exploration for Developmental RobotsRania Rayyes, Heiko Donat, Jochen J. SteilIEEE TCDS · Technische Universität Braunschweig
  11. 2020
    Multimodal Continual Learning Using Online Dictionary UpdatingFuchun Sun, Huaping Liu, Chao Yang, Bin FangIEEE TCDS · Foshan University · Tsinghua University
  12. 2019
    A Reinforcement Learning Architecture That Transfers Knowledge Between Skills When Solving Multiple TasksPaolo Tommasino, Daniele Caligiore, Marco Mirolli, Gianluca BaldassarreIEEE TCDS · Nanyang Technological University · Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
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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