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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. 2021
    Gradient Projection Memory for Continual LearningGobinda Saha, Garg, Isha, Roy, KaushikICLR · Purdue University West Lafayette
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  2. 2021
    EEC: Learning to Encode and Regenerate Images for Continual LearningAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerICLR · Pennsylvania State University
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  4. 2021
    Long Live the Lottery: The Existence of Winning Tickets in Lifelong LearningTianlong Chen, Zhenyu (Allen) Zhang, Sijia Liu … Zhangyang WangICLR
  5. 2021
    Contextual Transformation Networks for Online Continual LearningQ. Pham, Chenghao Liu, Doyen Sahoo, S. HoiICLR
  6. 2021
    Rethinking the Representational Continuity: Towards Unsupervised Continual LearningDivyam Madaan, Jaehong Yoon, Yuanchun Li … Sung Ju HwangICLR
  7. 2021
    Efficient Continual Learning with Modular Networks and Task-Driven PriorsTom Véniat, Ludovic Denoyer, Marc’Aurelio RanzatoICLR · Meta (United States)
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  8. 2021
    Reset-Free Lifelong Learning with Skill-Space PlanningKevin Lü, Aditya Grover, Pieter Abbeel, Igor MordatchICLR · University of California, Berkeley · Stanford University · +1
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  9. 2021
    Generalized Variational Continual LearningNoel Loo, Siddharth Swaroop, Richard E. TurnerICLR · University of Cambridge
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  10. 2021
    Linear Mode Connectivity in Multitask and Continual LearningSeyed Iman Mirzadeh, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Dilan Görür … Hassan GhasemzadehICLR · Washington State University · Google (United States)
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  11. 2021
    Remembering for the Right Reasons: Explanations Reduce Catastrophic ForgettingSayna Ebrahimi, S. Petryk, Akash Gokul … Trevor DarrellICLR
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  12. 2021
    Lifelong Learning of Compositional StructuresJorge A. Mendez, Eric EatonICLR · California University of Pennsylvania · University of Pennsylvania
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  13. 2021
    Anatomy of Catastrophic Forgetting: Hidden Representations and Task SemanticsVinay Ramasesh, Ethan Dyer, Maithra RaghuICLR · Google (United States) · Cornell University
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  14. 2021
    Graph-Based Continual LearningBinh Tang, David S. MattesonICLR · Cornell University
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  15. 2021
    Wandering within a World: Online Contextualized Few-Shot LearningMengye Ren, Michael L. Iuzzolino, Michael C. Mozer, Richard S. ZemelICLR · University of Toronto · University of Colorado Boulder · +1
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  16. 2021
    Continual learning in recurrent neural networksBenjamin Ehret, Christian Henning, Maria R. Cervera … B. GreweICLR
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    CPR: Classifier-Projection Regularization for Continual LearningSungmin Cha, Hsiang Hsu, Taebaek Hwang … Taesup MoonICLR
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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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